Weed
[wiːd] or [wid]
Definition
(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'.
Typist: Wolfgang--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Edited by Brent
Definition
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.
Editor: Nicolas
Unserious Contents or Definition
Found in gardens and widows. For removing easily, marry the widow.
Typed by Larry
Examples
- It had a pale ruddy sea-bottom, with black crabs and sea-weed moving sinuously under a transparent sea, that passed into flamy ruddiness above. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A weed like the Russian thistle, for instance, will defy all usual means for its extermination. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But I shall get on best at Chesney Wold, where there's more room for a weed than there is here; and the dear old lady will be made happy besides. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Taking the weed from his lips, he threw the remnant amongst the shrubswhere, for a moment, it lay glowing in the gloom. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Kelp is a species of sea-weed, which, when burnt, yields an alkaline salt, useful for making glass, soap, and for several other purposes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But education is not a weed that will grow lustily in any soil, it is a necessary and delicate crop that may easily wilt and degenerate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But it ain't weed neither. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since Mr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- St. Clare was a good deal affected at the sight of it; the little book had been rolled in a long strip of black crape, torn from the funeral weeds. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The duties which they perform are to loosen the earth, destroy the weeds, and throw the loosened earth around the growing plant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All weeds are removed and great care is used with the young trees. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There were plant animals, rooted and joined together like plants, and loose weeds that waved in the waters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thuret has observed the same fact with certain sea-weeds or Fuci. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There will be a weeding out of the white in favour of the brown in each generation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A child was weeding one of the little beds; as he stopped, he raised his pale face and disclosed the features of one of his former companions. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Selection aims not only at simplifying but at weeding out what is undesirable. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Duffy--who was occasionally employed in weeding the garden, and who had seen Rosanna Spearman as lately as half-an-hour since. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Out in the fields he could see still other women hoeing, weeding, or gathering. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Non-aristocratic officers were to be weeded from the army; the power of the church over private life was to be extended. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Waldo