| Weed |
n. |
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. |
| Weed |
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. |
| Weed |
n. |
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. |
| Weed |
n. |
Underbrush; low shrubs. |
| Weed |
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. |
| Weed |
n. |
Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. |
| Weed |
n. |
An animal unfit to breed from. |
| Weed |
n. |
Tobacco, or a cigar. |
| Weed |
v. t. |
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden. |
| Weed |
v. t. |
To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate. |
| Weed |
v. t. |
To free from anything hurtful or offensive. |
| Weed |
v. t. |
To reject as unfit for breeding purposes. |
| Weeded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Weed |
| Weeder |
n. |
One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious. |
| Weedery |
n. |
Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds. |
| Weeding |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Weed |
| Weeding |
|
a. & n. from Weed, v. |
| Weeding-rhim |
n. |
A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows. |
| Weedless |
a. |
Free from weeds;
said of a kind of motor-boat propeller the blades of which curve backwardly, as respects the direction of rotation, so that they draw through the water, and so do not gather weeds with which they come in contact. |
| Weedless |
a. |
Free from weeds or noxious matter. |
| Weedy |
superl. |
Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds. |
| Weedy |
superl. |
Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn. |
| Weedy |
superl. |
Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly;
said of colts or horses, and also of persons. |
| Weedy |
a. |
Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. |
