Weed — Defs

01 n. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.

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.

02 n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

1.
A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.[Scot.]

03 n. Underbrush; low shrubs.

1.
Underbrush; low shrubs.[Obs. or Archaic]
“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.
An animal unfit to breed from.(Stock Breeding)
5.
Tobacco, or a cigar.[Slang]

Phrases & compounds

Weed hook — a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.

04 v. t. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

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.
To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.(Stock Breeding)