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hempen, a. (n.)|ˈhɛmpən|
Also 4–5 hempyn(e, -pene, (6–7 hempton, 7 hemton), 6–8 hemping.
[f. hemp n. + -en4. Not recorded in OE.; but cf. OHG. hanafîn (Ger. hänfen), LG. hempen.]
1. Made of hemp; of or pertaining to hemp.
hempen homespun, homespun cloth made of hemp; hence, one clad in such cloth, one of rustic and coarse manners.
1375Barbour Bruce x. 360 He gert sym of the ledows..Of hempyn rapis ledderis ma. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxii. (1495) 898 The weke is made of hempen threde. c1440[see hempy a. 1]. 1535Latimer Serm. Insurr. in North (1844) 29 It is no knot of an hempton girdle. 1558T. Phaer æneid v. 552 But [he] hyt the hemping corde, and of the knot the bands he brast. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 79 What hempen home-spuns haue we swaggering here? 1651Miller of Mansf. 8 Good browne hempton sheetes. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 44 A very great succour to the poor, the Hempen Harvest coming after other Harvests. 1703Wakes Colne, Essex, Overseers' Acc. (MS.), 6 yards of hempinge cloth for two shifts for Suzan Beets. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. ii. (1869) I. 128 Weavers of linen and hempen cloth. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid ii. 236 Hempen cords cast over its neck.
fig.1675Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 297 Coarse hempen Trash is sooner read Than Poems of a finer Thread.
b. In humorous phrases and locutions, referring to the hangman's halter.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 454 Ware hem of hempyn lane! For stelthe is meeded with a chokelewe bane. a1529Skelton Agst. Garnesche 162 Stop a tyd, and be welle ware Ye be nat cawte in an hempen snare. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 95 Ye shall haue a hempen Caudle then, and the help of hatchet. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 67, I..scapde dauncing in a hempen circle. 1606Dekker Sev. Sinnes vii. (Arb.) 44 Lamentable hempen Tragedies acted at Tiburne. 1632Randolph Jealous Lovers (N.), Shall not we be suspected for the murder, And choke with a hempen squincey? a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Hempen-widdow, one whose Husband was Hang'd. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. T. s.v., A man who was hanged is said to have died of a hempen fever. 1837Sir F. B. Head Narrative viii. (1839) 208 What could they be worth to him but a hempen neck⁓cloth?
2. Resembling hemp.
1651J. F[reake] Agrippa's Occ. Philos. 100 It makes a Hempen colour. 1772–84Cook Voy. IX. iv. iii. (R.), Made of the bark of a pine-tree beat into a hempen state.
B. n. Hempen cloth.
1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) I. 255 They found Balboa..wearing coarse hempen used only by the meanest peasants. |