Etymology : Middle English, from Old English wEod weed, herb; akin to Old Saxon wiod weed
Pronunciation : wEd
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. wild unwanted plant; tobacco, cigarettes, marijuana (Slang); thin and awkward animal or person; mourning ribbon. removing weeds from the ground; uproot, pluck. weed\weed\, n. a sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. [scot.]weed \weed\ , n. [oe. wede, as. w de, w d; akin to os. wādi, giwādi, ofries, w de, w d, od. wade, ohg. wāt, icel. vā , zend vadh to clothe.].
2. a garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "low ly shepherd's weeds." "woman's weeds." "this beggar woman's weed." he on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore put off.
3. 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 \weed\, n. [oe. weed, weod, as. we?d, wi?d, akin to os. wiod, lg. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables d. wieden to weed, os. wiodōn.].
4. underbrush; low shrubs. [obs. or archaic] one rushing forth out of the thickest weed. a wild and wanton pard crouched fawning in the weed.
5. 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.
6. fig.: something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
7. (stock breeding) an animal unfit to breed from.
8. tobacco, or a cigar. [slang]weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.weed \weed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. weeding.] [as. we?dian. see:
3d weed.].
9. to free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
10. to take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate. "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.
11. to free from anything hurtful or offensive. he weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to elaiana.
12. (stock breeding) to reject as unfit for breeding purposes.weed n.
13. any plant that crowds out cultivated plants [ant: cultivated plant ].
14. a strong-smelling plant from whose dried leaves a number of euphoriant and hallucinogenic drugs are prepared [syn: marijuana, marihuana, ganja, pot, grass, dope, gage, sess, sens, skunk, mary-jane, cannabis sativa].
15. a soft drug consisting of the dried leaves of the hemp plant; smoked or chewed for euphoric effect [syn: cannabis, marijuana, ganja, pot, grass, marihuana, dope, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, mary jane] clear of weeds; "weed the garden".
16. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
17. 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.
18. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
19. Underbrush; low shrubs.
20. 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.
21. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
22. An animal unfit to breed from.
23. Tobacco, or a cigar.
24. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
25. To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
26. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
27. To reject as unfit for breeding purposes. any plant that crowds out cultivated plants clear of weeds; "weed the garden".
28. 1. A weed is a wild plant that grows in gardens or fields of crops and prevents the plants that you want from growing properly. a garden overgrown with weeds.
29. Weed is a plant that grows in water and usually forms a thick floating mass. There are many different kinds of weed. Large, clogging banks of weed are the only problem.
30. If you weed an area, you remove the weeds from it. Caspar was weeding the garden Try not to walk on the flower beds when weeding or hoeing. + weeding weed·ing She taught me to do the weeding. to remove unwanted plants from a garden or other place weed out to get rid of people or things that are not very good. Any plant growing where it is not wanted. On land under cultivation, weeds compete with crops for water, light, and nutrients. On rangelands and in pastures, weeds are those plants that grazing animals dislike or that are poisonous. Many weeds are hosts of plant disease organisms or of insect pests. Some originally unwanted plants later were found to have virtues and came under cultivation, while some cultivated plants, when transplanted to new climates, escaped cultivation and became weeds in the new habitat.
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