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The Meaning of weed

  • (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.

Synonyms

mourning band , pot , grass , green goddess , dope , gage , sess , sens , smoke , skunk , locoweed , Mary Jane

Antonyms

cultivated plant

Homophones

we'd , wied

Rhymes

accede , agreed , aidid , airspeed , alwaleed , aniseed , appleseed , aristede , aristide , bead , bede , beede , bleed , brede , breed , cede , centipede , concede , cottonseed , creed , decreed , dede , deed , degreed , disagreed , duckweed , ede , exceed , fede , feed , fireweed , flaxseed , frede , freed , freid , fried , friede , gaede , ganymede , gilead , glede , gleed , greed , guaranteed , hamid , heed , impede , inbreed , indeed , intercede , keyed , knead , kneed , laclede , lead , leed , linseed , lipide , mead , meade , milkweed , misdeed , mislead , misread , need , nied , nosebleed , oilseed , peed , pitied , plead , pokeweed , precede , proceed , proofread , prophesied , ragweed , rapeseed , rasheed , rashid , read , recede , reed , reid , reread , reseed , ried , riede , schmead , screed , seaweed , secede , seed , shaheed , siegfried , sinead , skied , smead , snead , sneed , speed , stampede , steed , streed , succeed , swede , teide , thede , thiede , tiede , treed , tweed , vahid , wahid , waleed , walid , wied , wrede