Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Weed   /wid/   Listen
noun
Weed  n.  
1.
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Lowly shepherd's weeds." "Woman's weeds." "This beggar woman's weed." "He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off."
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."


Weed  n.  A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. (Scot.)


Weed  n.  
1.
Underbrush; low shrubs. (Obs. or Archaic) "One rushing forth out of the thickest weed." "A wild and wanton pard... Crouched fawning in the weed."
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." 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.


verb
Weed  v. t.  (past & past part. weeded; pres. part. 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. "Weed up thyme." "Wise fathers... weeding from their children ill things." "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
3.
To free from anything hurtful or offensive. "He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana."
4.
(Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Weed" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the other side the loveliest picture of warmth, order, care, and ancient peace,—regions stately with yews and cedars, fruit-trees and fountains, clean-swept walks and shady alleys. The red wall, mottled and clouded with its lichens, and ruffed with many a thready weed, looked like the reverse of some bit of gorgeous brocade, on the sunny side of which must hang blossoming peaches and pears, nectarines and apricots and apples, on net-like trees, that spread out great obedient arms and multitudinous twigs against it, holding on by it, ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald
... as Dr. Joe called it, did start the next day. Daisy's mother and her Aunt Ellen went, Mrs. Dean and Margaret, and four little girls, including Nora Whitney, who was growing "like a weed." They went out to Broadway and then straight down. Of course people looked at them. The children were so merry, and really, Daisy in her chair with her colored attendant was quite an unusual incident. Aunt Ellen ...
— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas
... of pounds of sarsaparilla were brought to Falmouth, Jamaica, last year, and bought by merchants for export. It came from the parish of St. Elizabeth, and there are whole forests covered with this weed, for such in reality it is. It is too the real black Jamaica sarsaparilla, that is so much valued in the European and American markets. It is also found in other parts of ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds
... possible, a high standard and include only the best. From the days of Raleigh to the present time, literature abounds in allusions to tobacco. The Elizabethan writers constantly refer to it, often in praise though sometimes in condemnation. The incoming of the "Indian weed" created a great furore, and scarcely any other of the New World discoveries was talked about so much. Ben Jonson, Marlowe, Fletcher, Spenser, Dekker, and many other of the poets and dramatists of the time, make frequent reference ...
— Pipe and Pouch - The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry • Various
... lady," the fair page he said, And the knight lowly louted with hand and with head, "Fling aside the good armour in which thou art clad, And don thou this weed of her night-gear instead, For a hauberk of steel, a kirtle of thread; And charge, thus attir'd, in the tournament dread, And fight as thy wont is where most blood is shed, And bring honour away, or remain ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com