n. | 1. | |
| 1. | A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 1. | A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. |
| 1. | |
| 1. | Underbrush; low shrubs. |
| 2. | 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. |
| 3. | Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. |
| 4. | (Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from. |
| 5. | Tobacco, or a cigar. |
v. t. | 1. | |
| 1. | To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden. |
| 2. | To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate; - commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise. |
| 3. | To free from anything hurtful or offensive. |
| 4. | (Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes. |