hingn.
/hɪŋ/ The drug asafetida.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > antispasmodic or anticonvulsant > animal or plant-derived
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1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 254 One hundred and fourescore boates laden with Salt, Opium, Hinge, Lead, Carpets [etc.].
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 84 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Hingh, which our Drugsters and Apothecaries call Assa fœtida, comes for the most part from Persia.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 114 The Natives eat Hing, a sort of liquid Assa Fœtida, whereby they smell odiously.
1862 H. W. Bellew Jrnl. Polit. Mission Afghanistan 270 The assafœtida, called hang or hing by the natives, grows wild in the sandy..plains..of Afghanistan.
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