weed

/wiːd/

noun

  1. 1

    Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing.

    If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
  2. 2

    Short for duckweed.

  3. 3

    Underbrush; low shrubs.

  4. 4

    A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

  7. 7

    Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

verb

  1. 1

    To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

    I weeded my flower bed.

noun

  1. 1

    A garment or piece of clothing.

  2. 2

    Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

  3. 3

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

    He wore a weed on his hat.
  4. 4

    (especially in the plural as "widow's weeds") (Female) mourning apparel.

noun

  1. 1

    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.

  2. 2

    Lymphangitis in a horse.

verb

  1. 1

    To urinate.

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