Definitions for weed
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. weednoun

   any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

2. weed, mourning bandnoun

   a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning

3. pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Janeverb

   street names for marijuana

4. weedverb

   clear of weeds

   "weed the garden"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weednoun

   Etymology: weod , Saxon, tares.

   1. An herb noxious or useless.

   If he had an immoderate ambition; which is a weed, if it be a weed, apt to grow in the best soils, it doth not appear that it was in his nature. Edward Hyde.

   He wand’ring feeds
   On slowly growing herbs and ranker weeds. George Sandys.

   Too much manuring fill’d that field with weeds,
   While sects, like locusts, did destroy the seeds. John Denham.

   Stinking weeds and poisonous plants have their use. More.

   When they are cut, let them lie, if weedy, to kill the weeds. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   Their virtue, like their Tyber’s flood
   Rolling, its course design’d the country’s good;
   But oft the torrent’s too impetuous speed,
   From the low earth tore some polluting weed;
   And with the blood of Jove there always ran
   Some viler part, some tincture of the man. Matthew Prior.

   2. [ Wœda , Saxon; waed, Dutch.]A garment; cloaths; habit; dress. Now scarce in use, except in widow’s weeds, the mourning dress of a widow.

   My mind for weeds your virtue’s livery wears. Philip Sidney.

   Neither is it any man’s business to cloath all his servants with one weed; nor theirs to cloath themselves so, if left to their own judgments. Richard Hooker.

   They meet upon the way
   An aged sire, in long black weeds yclad;
   His feet all bare, his beard all hoary gray,
   And by his belt his book he hanging had. Fairy Queen.

   Livery is also called the upper weed which a serving man wears, so called as it was delivered and taken from him at pleasure. Edmund Spenser.

   The snake throws her enamelled skin,
   Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. William Shakespeare.

   Throngs of knights and barons bold,
   In weeds of peace high triumphs hold,
   With store of ladies. John Milton.

   Lately your fair hand in woman’s weed
   Wrapp’d my glad head. Edmund Waller.

2. To Weedverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To rid of noxious plants.

   When you sow the berries of bays, weed not the borders for the first half year; for the weed giveth them shade. Francis Bacon.

   Your seedlings having stood ’till June, bestow a weeding or a slight howing upon them. John Mortimer.

   2. To take away noxious plants.

   Oh Marcius,
   Each word thou’st spoke hath weeded from my heart
   A root of ancient envy. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   3. To free from any thing hurtful or offensive.

   He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana, and manumized it from that most dangerous confederacy. James Howell, Vocal Forest.

   Sarcasms, contumelies, and invectives, fill so many pages of our controversial writings, that, were those weeded out, many volumes would be reduced to a more moderate bulk and temper. Decay of Piety.

   4. To root out vice.

   Wise fathers be not as well aware in weeding from their children ill things, as they were before in grafting in them learning. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.

   One by one, as they appeared, they might all be weeded out, without any signs that ever they had been there. John Locke.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. weed

   A weed is any plant that is considered unwanted, undesirable, or intrusive in a certain area, usually in a garden or lawn. Weeds grow rapidly and compete with other plants for nutrients, sunlight, and space, often leading to a negative impact on the growth and development of other plants. The term "weed" does not have any botanical significance as it is applied to a wide range of plant species with similar characteristics.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weednoun

   a garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment

2. Weednoun

   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

3. Weednoun

   a sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed

4. Weednoun

   underbrush; low shrubs

5. Weednoun

   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

6. Weednoun

   fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless

7. Weednoun

   an animal unfit to breed from

8. Weednoun

   tobacco, or a cigar

9. Weedverb

   to free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden

10. Weedverb

    to take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate

11. Weedverb

    to free from anything hurtful or offensive

12. Weedverb

    to reject as unfit for breeding purposes

13. Etymology: [OE. weed, weod, AS. wed, wid, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiodn.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weed

   Weed is an every day term used in a variety of senses, usually to describe a plant considered undesirable within a certain context. The word—commonly applied to unwanted plants in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks—carries no botanical classification value, since a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing where it is wanted. Indeed, a number of plants that many consider weeds are often intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings. Less commonly, the term is applied to any plant that grows and reproduces aggressively outside its native habitat. The term is occasionally used to broadly describe species outside the plant kingdom that can live in diverse environments and reproduce quickly, and has even been applied to humans. weed: "A herbaceous plant not valued for use or beauty, growing wild and rank, and regarded as cumbering the ground or hindering the growth of superior vegetation... Applied to a shrub or tree, especially to a large tree, on account of its abundance in a district... An unprofitable, troublesome, or noxious growth."

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Weed

   wēd, n. any useless plant of small growth: anything useless or troublesome; a sorry animal, a worthless fellow: (coll.) a cigar.—v.t. to free from weeds: to remove anything hurtful or offensive.—adjs. Weed′ed, Weed′-grown, overgrown with weeds.—n. Weed′er.—n.pl. Weed′er-clips (Scot.), shears for weeding.—ns. Weed′ery, a place full of weeds; Weed′iness; Weed′ing-chis′el, -for′ceps, -fork, -hook, -tongs (pl.) garden implements of varying forms for destroying weeds.—adjs. Weed′less; Weed′y, weed-like, consisting of weeds; worthless. [A.S. wéod, an herb.]

2. Weed

   wēd, n. a garment, esp. in pl. a widow's mourning apparel.—adj. Weed′y, clad in widow's mourning. [A.S. wǽd, clothing; Old High Ger. wāt, cloth; cf. leinwand.]

3. Weed

   wēd, n. (Scot.) a popular name for any sudden illness, cold, or relapse with febrile symptoms in women after confinement or nursing: lymphangitis in the horse.—Also Weid.

Rap DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. weednoun

   See marijuana.

2. weednoun

   Past tense of the infinitive "to wee" i.e. something you do on the toilet.

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1. WEED

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. WEED

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Weed is ranked #4442 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Weed surname appeared 7,987 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Weed.
   
   92.9% or 7,424 total occurrences were White.
   2.2% or 180 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 157 total occurrences were Black.
   1.3% or 111 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.8% or 68 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.5% or 47 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Band
   • Remove
   • Vascular Plant

Anagrams for weed »

1. wede

How to pronounce weed?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of weed in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of weed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of weed in a Sentence

1. Blake Flayton:

   If Adolf Hitler had an Instagram account, the Holocaust would have happened a lot quicker, because the public would have been convinced a lot sooner, that the Jews were plotting to overthrow Germany, and weed out the Aryan race and take over Europe.

2. Lisa Carbonneau:

   I have a 20-pound 5-month-old who is growing like a weed, if the nutritional value is good enough to sustain his life, why not add a few extra vitamins to your diet.

3. Devin Hamlin:

   I definitely want somebody to be able to protect themselves, like I'd want to be able to protect Devin Hamlin, but at the same time, you're letting the wrong people get ahold of them. That's where the problem is. It's hard to weed out who's the good guys and the bad guys.

4. Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy:

   I will not let you down, I’d rather drink weed killer”

5. Chloe Lebbate:

   I had given up on dating apps, i couldn't find anyone who also smoked weed. It's something that's part of me. I use medical marijuana for health ailments, and a lot of people aren't cool with that.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=weed
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=weed
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weed
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=weed
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=weed
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html