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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Per.

bang

; cf. Skr.

bhangā

hemp.]

An astringent and narcotic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (

Cannabis Indica

), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See

bhang ‎(uncountable)

Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent.
- 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre 2008, p. 101:
  He rolled out from under Zelikman, who looked surprised as if by the turn his bhang dream had taken.
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 36
  Almost from the outset of her arrival in the town, soft-muted music, the strange, heart-rending, mournful music of the East - suggestive of apes, and pearls, and bhang, and the colour blue - was to be heard, surging from the Nook in monotonous improvisation.