Noun
The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
An evergreen tree common in North America (Abies, / Tsuga, Canadensis); hemlock spruce.
The wood or timber of the hemlock tree.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOnly one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.'' Ernest Hemingway
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. Robert Frost
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. Denis Diderot
Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock. Avram Davidson
The little hemlock is sister to the great hemlock. Manx Proverb
I am a judge of cresses, said the peasant, as he was eating hemlock. Danish Proverb