weed
Speech parts
1. weed - Noun
2. weed - Verb
3. Weed - Proper noun
Meaning
A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
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.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
Underbrush; low shrubs.
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.
Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
An animal unfit to breed from.
Tobacco, or a cigar.
To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
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A weed is but an unloved flower.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Die when I may, I want it said of me that I plucked a weed and planted a flower where ever I thought a flower would grow.
To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed.
The weed of arrogance grows on a dunghill.
To get rid of anger, first weed out the bitter roots.