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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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... driving their trades in parlours and kitchens and back room and garrets, and sometimes all of them under the same roof—brick-fields skirting gardens paled with staves of old casks, or timber pillaged from houses burnt down, and blackened and blistered by the flames—mounds of dock-weed, nettles, coarse grass and oyster-shells, heaped in rank confusion—small dissenting chapels to teach, with no lack of illustration, the miseries of Earth, and plenty of new churches, erected with a little superfluous wealth, to show ...
— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens
... men spring from the height to the abyss, they usually slip down. The erosive action of the sand of the desert is said to be gradually cutting off the Sphinx's head. The small faults are most numerous. We are least on our guard against them. There is a microscopic weed that chokes canals. Snow-flakes make the sky as dark as an eclipse does. White ants eat a carcase quicker than ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... true! The too-accurate man is ubiquitous. If you hear of him, and refuse to meet him, it is only to find that he has married your best friend, whom worlds could not bribe you to give up. If you weed him out of your acquaintance, it is only to realize that he was born into your relationship a generation ago, before you could prevent it. Sometimes he is your father, sometimes your brother. Both of these, however, can be lived down. But occasionally you discover that, in a moment of frenzy, ...
— From a Girl's Point of View • Lilian Bell
... as untimely and death as irresistible, as if man were a weed growing apace or a 265:18 flower withered by the sun and nipped by untimely frosts; but this is true only of a mortal, not of a man in God's image and likeness. The 265:21 truth of being is perennial, and the error is unreal ...
— Science and Health With Key to the Scriptures • Mary Baker Eddy
... Dance to the querulous pipe and shrill, When the gray shadow of the hill Was lengthening at the end of day? Not shadowy or pale were they, But limbed like those who 'twixt the trees Follow the swift of goddesses. Sunburnt they are somewhat, indeed, To where the rough brown woolen weed Is drawn across their bosoms sweet, Or cast from off their dancing feet; But yet the stars, the moonlight gray, The water wan, the dawn of day, Can see their bodies fair and white As hers, who once, for ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner


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