weed

Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing.countable

• If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.

Ellipsis of duckweed.abbreviationalt-ofcountable

Underbrush; low shrubs.archaicobsoleteuncountable

• one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
• A wild and wanton pard[…]/ Crouched fawning in the weed.

A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.; Cannabis.informaluncountable

• Hold up, hey / For my niggas who be actin' too bold, take a seat / Hope you ready for the next episode / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Smoke weed every day
• And I predict you will laugh harder than ever. I’m not saying I’m any funnier. I’m saying weed is now legal in D.C.

A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.; Tobacco.colloquialuncountable

A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.; A cigar.colloquialcountableobsolete

• "If ever you smoke, my dear aunt (and I am told that many women take a quiet weed under the rose), be very careful how you choose your cigars."

A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from.countable

A puny person; one who has little physical strength.UKcountableinformal

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.countablefiguratively

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass).transitive

• I weeded my flower bed.

To pilfer the best items from a collection.figurativelytransitive

• She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.

To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria.transitive

• We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.

A garment or piece of clothing.archaic

• Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
• Prince [Don Pedro] Come let vs hence, and put on other weedes, / And then to Leonatoes we will goe. / Claudio And Hymen now with luckier iſſue ſpeeds, / Then this for whom we rendred vp this woe. Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.archaic

• His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.

An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.archaic

• He wore a weed on his hat.

A hatband.archaic

• […] he was beat and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than nineteen hundred men; […]

Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel.archaic

• Poor Girl! put on thy stifling widow’s weed, / And ’scape at once from Hope’s accursed bands; […]

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted.Scotlandcountableuncountable

• The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and

Lymphangitis in a horse.Scotlandcountableuncountable

simple past and past participle of weeform-ofparticiplepast