From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weed
n 1: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants [ant:
cultivated plant]
2: a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of
mourning [syn: weed, mourning band]
3: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, {green
goddess}, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke,
skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]
v 1: clear of weeds; "weed the garden"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Weed \Weed\, n. [OE. weed, weod, AS. we['o]d, wi['o]d, akin to
OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D.
wieden to weed, OS. wiod[=o]n.]
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1. Underbrush; low shrubs. [Obs. or Archaic]
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One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.
--Spenser.
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A wild and wanton pard . . .
Crouched fawning in the weed. --Tennyson.
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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.
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Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.
--Denham.
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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.
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3. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything
useless.
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4. (Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from.
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5. Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang]
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Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating
weeds. --Tusser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Weed \Weed\ (w[=e]d), n. [OE. wede, AS. w[=ae]de, w[=ae]d; akin
to OS. w[=a]di, giw[=a]di, OFries, w[=e]de, w[=e]d, OD. wade,
OHG. w[=a]t, Icel. v[=a][eth], Zend vadh to clothe.]
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1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer
garment. "Lowly shepherd's weeds." --Spenser. "Woman's
weeds." --Shak. "This beggar woman's weed." --Tennyson.
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He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore
Put off. --Chapman.
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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.
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In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and
tears abundantly flowing. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Weed \Weed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Weeding.] [AS. we['o]dian. See 3d Weed.]
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1. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to
weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
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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."
--Shak.
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Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill
things. --Ascham.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more
man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it
out. --Bacon.
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3. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
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He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to
Elaiana. --Howell.
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4. (Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Weed \Weed\, n.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which
attacks women in childbed. [Scot.]
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