From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hash \Hash\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Hashed} (h[a^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. {Hashing}.] [From {Hash}, noun: cf. F. hacher to hash.] To chop into small pieces; to mince and mix; as, to hash meat. --Hudibras.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hash \Hash\ (h[a^]sh), noun [Formerly hachey, hachee, F. hachis, fr. hacher to hash; of German origin; cf. G. hippe sickle, OHG. hippa, for happia. Cf. {Hatchet}.]
1. That which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.
2. A new mixture of old matter; a second preparation or exhibition.
I can not bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. --Walpole.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
octothorp \oc"to*thorp\, octothorpe \oc"to*thorpe\, noun [octo- eight + thorp Etymology of thorp uncertain. (ca. 1965). See quote below. Possibly derived from octalthorpe or octotherp (once used by the Bell System?).] A typographic symbol (#) having two vertical lines intersected by two horizontal lines. It is also called the {crosshatch}, {hash}, {numeral sign} and {number sign}; in the U. S. it is commonly called the {pound sign}, especially to designate the symbol as used on digital telephone dials, but this can be confusing to Europeans who think of the pound sign as the symbol for the British pound. It is commonly used as a symbol for the word number; as in #36 (meaning: number thirty-six). [PJC]
octothorp Otherwise known as the numeral sign. It has also been used as a symbol for the pound avoirdupois, but this usage is now archaic. In cartography, it is also a symbol for village: eight fields around a central square, and this is the source of its name. Octothorp means eight fields. --Robert Bringhurst (The Elements of Typographic Style (2d edition, 1996), Hartley & Marks, Publishers, Point Roberts, WA; Vancouver, BC, Canada, p. 282) [Joel Neely]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
2: purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen [syn: {hashish}, {hasheesh}, {haschisch}]
verb
1: chop up; "hash the potatoes"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
203 Moby Thesaurus words for "hash": DET, DMT, LSD, Mary Jane, STP, THC, acid, admix, all sorts, alloy, amalgamate, antidepressant, arsy-varsiness, aspic, assemblage, assortment, ataractic, bad job, barbecue, bemingle, bevue, blend, blunder, bobble, boggle, boiled meat, bollix, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, botch, botchery, bouilli, broad spectrum, bugger up, bungle, butcher, civet, clumsy performance, clutter, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compose, compound, concoct, confusion, conglomerate, conglomeration, diethyltryptamine, dimethyltryptamine, disaster, emulsify, error, etourderie, farrago, fiasco, flesh, flub, fluff, flunk, foozle, forcemeat, foul up, fumble, fuse, gage, gallimaufry, game, ganja, gaucherie, grass, hachis, hallucinogen, hash up, hashish, hay, helter-skelter, hemp, higgledy-piggledy, hodgepodge, homogenize, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hugger-mugger, hysteron proteron, immingle, immix, integrate, interblend, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, intertwine, interweave, jerky, joint, jugged hare, jumble, jungle, kava, knead, litter, louse up, magpie, mangle, marijuana, mash, meat, medley, melange, menue viande, merge, mescal, mescal bean, mescal button, mescaline, mess, mess up, mince, mind-altering drug, mind-blowing drug, mind-expanding drug, mingle, mingle-mangle, miscellany, miscue, mishandle, mishmash, mismanage, mistake, mix, mix up, mix-up, mixed bag, mixture, morning glory seeds, muddle, muff, mull, muss, odds and ends, off day, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pasticcio, pastiche, patchwork, pemmican, peyote, pot, pot roast, potpourri, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychic energizer, psychoactive drug, psychochemical, psychotomimetic, reefer, roach, roast, ruin, rummage, sad work, salad, salmagundi, sauce, sausage meat, scramble, scrapple, screw up, shambles, shuffle, slip, snafu, spoil, stew, stick, stir up, stumble, syncretize, tea, throw together, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, toss together, tranquilizer, trip, tumble, turmoil, unholy mess, venison, viande, washout, weed, welter, what you will, work
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
1. {hash character}. 2. {hash coding}. 3. The preferred term for a {Perl} {associative array}. (1995-03-06)
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
HASH, x. There is no definition for this word -- nobody knows what hash is.
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