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weeds

noun
/wiːdz/UK

Etymology

From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”).

  1. inherited from *wēdiz✻
  2. inherited from wǣd

Definitions

  1. plural of weed

  2. third-person singular simple present indicative of weed

  3. Clothes.

    • Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
    • What sight is this? What company of women Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds Conspicuous?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for weeds. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA