WEED
\wˈiːd], \wˈiːd], \w_ˈiː_d]\
Definitions of WEED
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
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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.
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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.
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Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
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An animal unfit to breed from.
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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.
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To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
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To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
By Oddity Software
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A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
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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.
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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.
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Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
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An animal unfit to breed from.
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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.
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To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
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To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
By Noah Webster.
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Any harmful or useless plant.
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To root out; to free from useless or wild plants; to rid of anything hurtful.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Any useless plant of small growth: anything useless or troublesome.
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To free from weeds: to remove anything hurtful or offensive.
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WEEDER.
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A garment; an article of clothing; "Lowly shepherd's weeds."-Spenser; "Palmer's weeds."-Milton; "This silken rag, this beggar-woman's weed."-Tennyson: an upper or outer garment; "His own hands putting on both shirt and weede."-Chapman: an article of dress worn in token of mourning: mourning garb; mornings; "In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing."-Milton. In this sense used now in the plural, and more specifically applied to the mourning dress of a widow. “A widow's weeds are still spoken of, meaning her appropriate mourning dress."-Nares.
By Daniel Lyons
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WEEDER.
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To remove the weeds from; root out, as weeds.
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Any troublesome useless plant.
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A token of mourning worn as part of the dress.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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As worn specially by a widow.
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The general name of any useless or troublesome plant; anything useless or troublesome, specially when mingled with things that are useful or of value.
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A garment; a mourning dress, generally.
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To free from weeds, or from anything hurtful or offensive; to root out.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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