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The Meaning of weed
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(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
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(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.
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(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
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(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
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(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.
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(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
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(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
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(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
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(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
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(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
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(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
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(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