Weed

[wiːd] or [wid]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning.

(noun.) any plant that crowds out cultivated plants.

(verb.) clear of weeds; 'weed the garden'.

編輯:沃尔夫冈--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

(n.) 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.

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

(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.

(n.) 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.

(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.

(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.

(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.

(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

布伦特校對

解釋/意思:

n. (Scot.) a popular name for any sudden illness cold or relapse with febrile symptoms in women after confinement or nursing: lymphangitis in the horse.—Also Weid.

n. a garment esp. in pl. a widow's mourning apparel.—adj. Weed′y clad in widow's mourning.

n. any useless plant of small growth: anything useless or troublesome; a sorry animal a worthless fellow: (coll.) a cigar.—v.t. to free from weeds: to remove anything hurtful or offensive.—adjs. Weed′ed Weed′-grown overgrown with weeds.—n. Weed′er.—n.pl. Weed′er-clips (Scot.) shears for weeding.—ns. Weed′ery a place full of weeds; Weed′iness; Weed′ing-chis′el -for′ceps -fork -hook -tongs (pl.) garden implements of varying forms for destroying weeds.—adjs. Weed′less; Weed′y weed-like consisting of weeds; worthless.

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