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A drug smoked or ingested for euphoric effect, cannabis.
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After smoking a bowl of that fine marijuana, they ate some brownies.
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The hemp plant itself, Cannabis sativa.
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Food consumed before going to bed.
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Any meal eaten in the evening; dinner eaten in the evening, rather than at noon.
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A meal from a chip shop consisting of a deep-fried food with chips.
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a fish supper; a pizza supper
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A drinker, especially one who drinks slowly (i.e., one who sups).
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The tea plant (Camellia sinensis); a variety of this plant.
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Darjeeling tea is grown in India.
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The dried leaves or buds of the tea plant; a variety of such leaves.
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Go to the supermarket and buy some Darjeeling tea.
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The drink made by infusing these dried leaves or buds in hot water.
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Would you like some tea?
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Any similar drink made by infusing parts of various other plants.
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camomile tea; mint tea
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Meat stock served as a hot drink.
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beef tea
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A cup or (East Asia) glass of any of these drinks, often with milk, sugar, lemon, and/or tapioca pearls.
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A light midafternoon meal, typically but not necessarily including tea.
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The break in play between the second and third sessions.
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Australia were 490 for 7 at tea on the second day.
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Information, especially gossip.
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Spill the tea on that drama, hon.
verb
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To drink tea.
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To take afternoon tea (the light meal).
Examples of tea in a Sentence
He drank hot tea from a glass.
Do you want to come by for tea and cookies?
He didn't smile this time but sipped his tea, eyes on her.
She followed, intent on having her tea by the window as she did every morning.
You can make tea with it, she started.
Jessi sipped her tea.
The leaves are used as tea and as a country medicine.
The officers were hurriedly drinking tea and breakfasting, the soldiers, munching biscuit and beating a tattoo with their feet to warm themselves, gathering round the fires throwing into the flames the remains of sheds, chairs, tables, wheels, tubs, and everything that they did not want or could not carry away with them.
The exports cover a wide range of agricultural, pastoral and natural productions, including coffee, rubber, sugar, cotton, cocoa, Brazil nuts, mate (Paraguay tea), hides, skins, fruits, gold, diamonds, manganese ore, cabinet woods and medicinal leaves, roots and resins.
The preparations for my tea are nearly completed, and I am looking forward joyfully to the event.
Most of the tea estates are situated in the coast belt north of Durban.
The sugar cane, like tea, was first introduced in 1850, the first canes being brought from Mauritius.
The chief exports, not all products of the province, are coal, wool, mohair, hides and skins, wattle bark, tea, sugar, fruits and jams. The import trade is of a most varied character, and a large proportion of the goods brought into the country are in transit to the Transvaal and Orange Free State, Natal affording, next to Delagoa Bay, the shortest route to the Rand.
Therefore 1 lb of tea cost is.
Other crops which are grown in the province, especially in Upper Burma, comprise maize, tilseed, sugar-cane, cotton, tobacco, wheat, millet, other food grains including pulse, condiments and spices, tea, barley, sago, linseed and other oil-seeds, various fibres, indigo and other dye crops, besides orchards and garden produce.
Situated at the intersection of two roads - from Kulja to Tashkent, and from Semipalatinsk to Kashgar - Vyernyi carries on an active trade in wheat, rice, corn, tea, oil and tobacco.
Throughout Europe it continued to be a costly luxury and article of medicine only, till the increasing use of tea and coffee in the 18th century brought it into the list of principal food staples.
Over the whole of its southern portion tea is largely grown, notably in the districts of Hui-chow Fu, Tung-liu, Ta-tung and Wu-hu.
Among the principal goods dealt with are tea, silk, opium, sugar, flax, salt, earthenware, oil, amber, cotton and cotton goods, sandal-wood, ivory, betel, vegetables, live stock and granite.
Cotton yarn and cloth, petroleum, timber and furs are among the chief imports; copper, tin, hides and tea are important exports; medicines in the shape not only of herbs and roots, but also of fossils, shells, bones, teeth and various products of the animal kingdom; and precious stones, principally jade and rubies, are among the other exports.
Berry-White, which is maintained by the government, to train hospital assistants for the tea gardens.
In the same year the production of tea was 1,633,178 lb; of coffee, 24,8591b; of maize, 2,101,470 bushels; of potatoes, 419,946 bushels; and of sweet potatoes, 181,195 bushels.
The tea plant was first introduced in Natal in 1850, but little attention was paid to it until the failure of the coffee plantations about 1875, since when only small quantities of coffee have been produced.
In 1877 renewed efforts were made to induce tea cultivation, and by 1881 it had become an established industry.
It is calculated that ioo,000 camels are used for the transport of tea only from Kalgan to Siberia, and that no less than 1,200,000 camels and 300,000 ox-carts are employed in the internal caravan trade.
In the I3th century, however, the introduction 01 tea from China, together with vessels for infusing and serving it revealed to the Japanese a new conception of ceramic possibilities for the potters of the Middle Kingdom had then (Sung dynasty) fully entered the road which was destined to carry them ultimately to a high pinnacle of their craft.
It had long been customary in Japan to send students to China for the purpose of studying philosophy and religion, and she now (1223) sent a potter, Kato Shirozaemon, who, on his return, opened a kiln at Seto in the province of Owari, and began to produce little jars for preserving tea and cups for drinking it.
The raku faience owed much of its popularity to the patronage of the tea clubs.
Unfortunately, the best experts confined themselves to working for the tea clubs, and consequently produced only insignificant pieces, as tea-jars, cups and little ewers.
They still manufacture quantities of tea and coffee sets, and dinner or dessert services of red-and-gold porcelain for foreign markets; but about 1885 some of them made zealous and patient efforts to revert to the processes that won so much fame for the old Kutaniyaki, with its grand combinations of rich, lustrous, soft-toned glazes.
The town has two interesting museums. Emden is the seat of an active trade in agricultural produce and live-stock, horses, timber, coal, tea and wine.
Their food consists of meat, chiefly pork, turnips, rice, barley-meal and tea made from the brick-tea of China.
The commodities otherwise mostly dealt in are opium, tea, rice, oil, raw cotton, fish and silk.
The preparation and packing of tea is the principal industry in the town.
He it was, also, who managed the proceedings of the "Boston Tea Party," and later he was moderator of the convention of Massachusetts towns called to protest against the Boston Port Bill.
Tea is grown in the district, which includes the military sanatorium of Ranikhet.
Tea, coffee, cinchona, sugar-cane, rice, nutmegs, cloves and pepper are cultivated.
The staple imports are piece goods, tobacco, cotton, earthenware, tea and sugar.
Another bill (the Declaratory Act), however, was almost immediately passed by the king's party, asserting absolute supremacy of parliament over the colonies, and in the succeeding parliament, by the Townshend Acts of 1767, duties were imposed on paper, paints and glass imported by the colonists; a tax was imposed on tea also.
In spite of the opposition in the colonies to the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Acts and the tea tax, Franklin continued to assure the British ministry and the British public of the loyalty of the colonists.
Tea gardens cover a considerable area, and the valley contains a colony of European tea planters.
The tea trade of Wen-chow-Fu, formerly important, has declined owing to careless cultivation.
The cultivation of tea was introduced in 1856, and is now a large industry.
The Stamp Act was repealed in March 1766, but the Townshend Acts, imposing duties on glass, paper, lead, painters' colours and tea, followed closely.
The cultivation of sugar and coffee owes its development mainly to the Dutch; and to them also is due the introduction of tea.
The principal articles of export are sugar, tobacco, copra, forest products (various gums, &c.), coffee, petroleum, tea, cinchona, tin, rice, pepper, spices and gambier.
In the eastern Astin-tagh a variety of wild tea (chay, mountain tea) is used by the Mongols.
A very few articles (spirits, beer, wine, tobacco, tea, coffee, cocoa) yield practically all of the customs revenue, and, so far as these articles are produced within the country, they are subject to an excise duty, an internal tax precisely equal to the import duty.
It deserves to be noted that in 1872 an important step was also taken towards removing entirely the duties on purely revenue articles, tea and coffee being then admitted free of duty.
The tea plant is found almost everywhere, and the cotton plant is largely cultivated near the sea.