weed

[Weed]

Any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

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A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

Noun
street names for marijuana

Noun
any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

Verb
clear of weeds; "weed the garden"

n.
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

n.
An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.

n.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

n.
Underbrush; low shrubs.

n.
Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

n.
Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

n.
An animal unfit to breed from.

n.
Tobacco, or a cigar.

v. t.
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

v. t.
To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.

v. t.
To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

v. t.
To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

Weed

Weed , n. [OE. wede, AS. wde, wd; akin to OS. w'bedi, giw'bedi, OFries, wde, wd, OD. wade, OHG. w'bet, Icel. v'be, Zend vadh to clothe.] 1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Lowly shepherd's weeds." Spenser. "Woman's weeds." Shak. "This beggar woman's weed." Tennyson.

He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off.

2. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds.

In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.

Weed

Weed, n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. [Scot.]

Weed

Weed, n. [OE. weed, weod, AS. we'a2d, wi'a2d, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiod&omac;n.] 1. Underbrush; low shrubs. [Obs. or Archaic]

One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.

A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed.

2. Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.

Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.

&hand; The word has no definite application to any particular plant, or species of plants. Whatever plants grow among corn or grass, in hedges, or elsewhere, and are useless to man, injurious to crops, or unsightly or out of place, are denominated weeds. 3. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. 4. (Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from. 5. Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang] Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. Tusser.

Weed

Weed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding.] [AS. we'a2dian. See 3d Weed.] 1. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden. 2. To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate. "Weed up thyme." Shak.

Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

3. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.

4. (Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Underbrush; low shrubs.

To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

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Usage Examples

Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

I heard on public radio recently, there's a thing called Weed Dating. Singles get together in a garden and weed and then they take turns, they keep matching up with other people. Two people will weed down one row and switch over with two other people. It's in Vermont. I don't think I'd be very good at Weed Dating.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

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Other Usage Examples

A flower falls, even though we love it and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Science grows like a weed every year.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.