hashish

What it means

1. uncountableusuallyThe leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.

   You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?

   1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 4, in Eight Cousins

   1 more example

   Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.

   1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 44

2. uncountableusuallyA cannabis extract.
3. slanguncountableusuallyMarijuana generally.

In a sentence

Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.

1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 44

Where it comes from

1. Arabicحَشِيش
2. Arabicحَشِيش
3. Englishhashish

Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).