hempseed

Definitions

Examples

• Bullfinches, when fed on hempseed, often become wholly black.

• Canaries like hempseed better than anything else, but it is so rich that, if fed heavily, it is injurious.

• Hempseed, crushed and mingled with oatmeal, should be given them when about to wean them from an insect diet.

• Hempseed oil, resembles the preceding, but has a disagreeable smell, and a mawkish taste.

• "Never mind their hurting your wrists, young Hempseed," chuckled one of the scaldpated constable rogues who was guarding us.