Weeds
[wiːdz]
Definition
(noun.) a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning.
Editor: Margie--From WordNet
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Mourning, symbol of sorrow.
Edited by Jonathan
Unserious Contents or Definition
Found in gardens and widows. For removing easily, marry the widow.
Inputed by Alphonso
Examples
- 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.
- Can you see many long weeds and nettles amongst the graves? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Yes, if Mrs. Pryor owns six feet of stature, and if she has changed her decent widow's weeds for masculine disguise. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Some means besides the sickle and scythe, hoe and plough, were wanted to destroy obnoxious standing grass and weeds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Weeds and flowers spring from its massy arches and its circling seats, and vines hang their fringes from its lofty walls. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The sky was blue above, and the air impregnated with fragrance by the rare flowers that grew among the weeds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He discovered silica in the epidermis of the stems of weeds, corn, and grasses. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Farewell to desolate towns --to fields with their savage intermixture of corn and weeds--to ever multiplying relics of our lost species. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I remember her a mangy little urchin picking weeds in the garden. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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