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weed

1 [weed]

–noun

1.	a valueless plant growing wild, esp. one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.

2.	any undesirable or troublesome plant, esp. one that grows profusely where it is not wanted: The vacant lot was covered with weeds.

3.	Informal. a cigarette or cigar.

4.	Slang. a marijuana cigarette.

5.	a thin, ungainly person or animal.

6.	a wretched or useless animal, esp. a horse unfit for racing or breeding purposes.

the weed,

a.	Informal. tobacco.

b.	Slang. marijuana.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to free from weeds or troublesome plants; root out weeds from: to weed a garden.

9.	to root out or remove (a weed or weeds), as from a garden (often fol. by out): to weed out crab grass from a lawn.

10.	to remove as being undesirable, inefficient, or superfluous (often fol. by out): to weed out inexperienced players.

11.	to rid (something) of undesirable or superfluous elements.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to remove weeds or the like.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME wede, OE wēod; c. OS wiod weed, MD wiet fern

Related forms:

weedless, adjective

weedlike, adjective

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weed

2 [weed]

–noun

1.	weeds, mourning garments: widow's weeds.

2.	a mourning band of black crepe or cloth, as worn on a man's hat or coat sleeve.

Often, weeds. Archaic.

a.	a garment: clad in rustic weeds.

clothing.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME wede, OE wǣd, (ge)wǣde garment, clothing; c. OS wād, gewādi, OHG wāt, gewāti clothing; cf. wadmal

Weed

[weed]

–noun

Thur⋅low [thur-loh]

, 1797–1882, U.S. journalist and politician.

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weed¹ (wēd)

1. A plant considered undesirable, unattractive, or troublesome, especially one growing where it is not wanted, as in a garden.
2. Rank growth of such plants.
3. Tobacco.
4. A cigarette.
5. Marijuana.
A water plant, especially seaweed.
The leaves or stems of a plant as distinguished from the seeds: dill weed.
Something useless, detrimental, or worthless, especially an animal unfit for breeding.
Slang
1. Tobacco.
2. A cigarette.
3. Marijuana.

v. weed·ed, weed·ing, weeds

v. tr.

To clear of weeds.
To remove (weeds). Often used with out: weed out dandelions.
To eliminate as unsuitable or unwanted. Often used with out: weed out unqualified applicants.

v. intr.
To remove weeds.

[Middle English, from Old English wēod, herb, grass, weed.]

weed² (wēd)

A token of mourning, as a black band worn on a man's hat or sleeve.
weeds The black mourning clothes of a widow.
An article of clothing; a garment. Often used in the plural.

[Middle English wede, garment, from Old English wǣd.]

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Weed

Weed\, n. [OE. wede, AS. w?de, w?d; akin to OS. w[=a]di, giw[=a]di, OFries, w?de, w?d, OD. wade, OHG. w[=a]t, Icel. v[=a]?, Zend vadh to clothe.]

1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Low?ly 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. --Chapman.

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. --Milton.

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['o]d, wi['o]d, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiod[=o]n.]

1. Underbrush; low shrubs. [Obs. or Archaic]

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.

Too much manuring filled that field with weeds. --Denham.

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. --Tusser.

Weed

Weed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding.] [AS. we['o]dian. 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. --Ascham.

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

3. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

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

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

Language Translation for : weed

Spanish: mala hierba,

German: das Unkraut,

Japanese: 雑草

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weed (n.)

"plant not valued for use or beauty," O.E. weod, uueod "grass, herb, weed," from P.Gmc. *weud- (cf. O.S. wiod, E.Fris. wiud), of unknown origin. Meaning "tobacco" is from 1606; that of "marijuana" is from 1920s. The verb meaning "to clear the ground of weeds" is late O.E. weodian.

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