Definition of Weed

Pronunciation: wēd
n.1.
1.A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
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.
1.A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
1.
1.Underbrush; low shrubs.
One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.
- Spenser.
A wild and wanton pard . . .
Crouched fawning in the weed.
- Tennyson.
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.
3.Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
4.(Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from.
5.Tobacco, or a cigar.
Weed hook
a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.
- Tusser.
v. t.1.
[imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
3.To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
4.(Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.


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