cannabine

English

Etymology

Latin cannabinus.

Adjective

cannabine (not comparable)

1. Relating to hemp; hempen.

Noun

cannabine

1. (historical) An alkaloid extracted from Cannabis sativa or hemp that was used medicinally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
   • 1886, Thomas Michael Dolan, A Summary of New Remedies, page 19:

     Indian hemp yields cannabine and cannabine hydrate; combined with tannin the hydrate forms a staple compound.

   • 1893, David Cerna, Notes on the Newer Remedies:

     Cannabine occurs as a syrupy, brown liquid; but the tannate of the alkaloid is a yellowish-brown powder, of a bitter taste and almost odorless.

   • 1907, British Pharmaceutical Codex, page 201:

     Cannabine tannate is a substance prepared commercially by distilling Indian hemp with steam to deprive it of its volatile oil, extracting with water, precipitating the aqueous extract with lead acetate, decomposing this with hydrogen sulphide and combining the cannabine thus set free with tannic acid; or the aqueous extract may be directly precipitated with tannic acid.

   • 2021, Lucas Richert, Jim Mills, Cannabis: Global Histories, page 10:

     By march the "blue death" had killed nearly 6,500 people in Paris, roughly 50 percent of those who became infected, and Parisian medical journals reported that hashish tincture, referred to interchangeably as "hachichine" and "cannabine," produced inconclusive results at best.

Latin

Adjective

cannabine

1. vocative masculine singular of cannabinus