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weed Esp.Northwest, Slang

• n. a smoking mixture varying as to ingredients from tribe to tribe and place to place, but including bearberry or sumac leaves, the inner bark of red-osier dogwood and, often, tobacco.

  See also: kinnikinik (def. 1)  

  • 1908  [Here] was a gethering of commonplace men smoking briar-roots, with treaty tobacco instead of "weed."