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weed

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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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A weed is but an unloved flower. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Edmund Burke

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. Abraham Lincoln

To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed. Finnish Proverb

The weed of arrogance grows on a dunghill. American Proverb

To get rid of anger, first weed out the bitter roots. Zambian Proverb

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