hemlock
part of speech
noun (hemlocks)
meaning for a pupil
Hemlock is a tall wild plant with small white flowers, and it is very poisonous. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Hosea uses a bitter, poisonous plant to picture justice turned sour by false oaths. The tradition reads it as a warning that broken promises poison society. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales, hemlock can be a poison, or a magic plant that grows out of a person
examples
- They speak words, they swear falsely, they make covenants; thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. (Prophets HOS.10.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- Never touch hemlock; it is deadly. tree →
- Scarcely had she spoken when a golden hemlock sprang up from her. tree →
- The witch brewed a drink of hemlock. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hemlock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.