Weed

n.	1.
	1.	A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off. - Chapman.
	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. In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing. - Milton.
	1.	A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
	1.
	1.	Underbrush; low shrubs. One rushing forth out of the thickest weed. - Spenser. A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed. - Tennyson.
	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. Too much manuring filled that field with weeds. - Denham.
	3.	Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
	4.	(Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from.
	5.	Tobacco, or a cigar. Weed hook a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. - Tusser.
v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding.]
	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. Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things. - Ascham. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. - Bacon.
	3.	To free from anything hurtful or offensive. He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana. - Howell.
	4.	(Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

Noun	1.	weed - any plant that crowds out cultivated plants Antonyms: cultivated plant - plants that are grown for their produce
	2.	weed - street names for marijuana Synonyms: dope, gage, green goddess, sens, sess, Mary Jane, locoweed, skunk, grass, smoke, pot
Verb	1.	weed - clear of weeds; "weed the garden"

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