weed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.

   • If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
   • The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.
   • Some of the weeds that cause an undesirable flavor in milk are: onion, tarweed, scaleweed, garlic, mustard, pepper grass.
2. 2

   Ellipsis of duckweed.

3. 3

   Underbrush

   Underbrush; low shrubs.

   • one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
   • A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.
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   1. 4

      A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.

      • Hold up, hey / For my niggas who be actin' too bold, take a seat / Hope you ready for the next episode / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Smoke weed every day
      • And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.
   2. 5

      A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.

   3. 6

      A puny person

      A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

   4. 7

      Something unprofitable or troublesome

      Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

   5. 8

      To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).

      • I weeded my flower bed.
   6. 9

      To pilfer the best items from a collection.

      • She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.
   7. 10

      To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.

      • We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.
      • Librarians overwhelmingly believe that weeding increases use of books and patron satisfaction.
   8. 11

      A garment or piece of clothing.

      • Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
      • Prince [Don Pedro] Come let vs hence, and put on other weedes, / And then to Leonatoes we will goe. / Claudio And Hymen now with luckier iſſue ſpeeds, / Then this for whom we rendred vp this woe. Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!
      • Shee, in a watchet vveed, with manie a curious waue, / VVhich as a princelie gift great Amphitrite gaue; […]
   9. 12

      Clothing collectively

      Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

      • His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.
   10. 13

       An article of dress worn in token of grief

       An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

       • He wore a weed on his hat.
   11. 14

       A hatband.

       • […] he was beat and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than nineteen hundred men; […]
   12. 15

       Especially in the plural as widow's weeds

       Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.

       • Poor Girl! put on thy stifling widow’s weed, / And ’scape at once from Hope’s accursed bands; […]
   13. 16

       A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about…

       A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.

   14. 17

       Lymphangitis in a horse.

   15. 18

       simple past and past participle of wee

   16. 19

       A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.

The neighborhood

• neighborgrow like a weed
• neighborweeds
• neighborweed out