| Weed (weed) |
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| Weed |
[OE. wede, AS.
w&?]de, w(?)d; akin to OS. w di,
giwdi, OFries, w(?)de, w(?)d, OD. wade,
OHG. wt, Icel. v(?) |
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or
outer garment.
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.
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A sudden illness or relapse,
often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
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Underbrush; low shrubs.
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.
Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome;
anything useless.
An animal unfit to breed
from.
Tobacco, or a cigar.
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To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds;
as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as
something hurtful; to extirpate.
To free from anything hurtful or
offensive.
To reject as unfit for
breeding purposes.
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