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noun
Weed  n.  
1.
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Lowly shepherd's weeds." "Woman's weeds." "This beggar woman's weed." "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  n.  A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. (Scot.)


Weed  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." Note: 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.


verb
Weed  v. t.  (past & past part. weeded; pres. part. weeding)  
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; commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise. "Weed up thyme." "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.





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"Weed" Quotes from Famous Books



... party half lifting, half pushing, as they ran on either side, and then as she floated, springing in and gliding off over a lovely forest of coral and weed only a foot or two beneath the boat's keel. Every spray was clearly seen, for the water was perfectly still and limpid in the lagoon, while a mile out the sea curled over in great billows and broke with a dull, thunderous ...
— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn
... refer below, is not our only use of Dutch as a contemptuous adjective. We say "Dutch Gold" for pinchbeck, "Dutch Myrtle" for a weed. "I shall talk to you like a Dutch uncle" is another saying, not in this case contemptuous but rather complimentary—signifying "I'll dress you down to some purpose". One piece of slang we share with Holland: the ...
— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas
... triumphant political movement was hostility to a secret society. Many of the most distinguished political names of Western New York, including Millard Fillmore, William H. Seward, Thurlow Weed, Francis Granger, James Wadsworth, George W. Patterson, were associated with it. And as the larger portion of the Whig party was merged in the Republican, the dominant party of to-day has a certain lineal descent from the feelings aroused by the abduction ...
— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis
... was crowded, of course, and would remain so to the finish, for not only in the town itself, but in the country for miles around, the trial was the one topic of conversation among the people. Mrs. Pratt, in deep mourning, and Tom with a weed on his hat, had seats near Pembroke Howard, the public prosecutor, and back of them sat a great array of friends of the family. The twins had but one friend present to keep their counsel in countenance, their poor old sorrowing landlady. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... artist than even the daring scenic painters; in front of me was a prairie of flowers, acres and acres of waving, undulating masses of color; thousands of Arizona wyetha (wild sunflowers) mingled with the brilliant tips of the fire-weed and clumps of odorous and delicately colored horsemint. There were other flowers unfamiliar to me and hundreds of big blossoms of what I took to be a member of the primrose family. It was in this garden that the buffalo and antelope ...
— The Black Wolf Pack • Dan Beard


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