What is "weed"

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

Weed \Weed\ (w[=e]d), n. [OE. wede, AS. w[=ae]de, w[=ae]d; akin to OS. w[=a]di, giw[=a]di, OFries, w[=e]de, w[=e]d, OD. wade, OHG. w[=a]t, Icel. v[=a][eth], Zend vadh to clothe.]

1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. ``Lowly shepherd's weeds.''
   --Spenser. ``Woman's weeds.''
   --Shak. ``This beggar woman's weed.''
   --Tennyson.

   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.

Weed \Weed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding.] [AS. we['o]dian. See 3d Weed.]

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. ``Weed up thyme.''
   --Shak.

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

Weed \Weed\, n. [OE. weed, weod, AS. we['o]d, wi['o]d, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiod[=o]n.]

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.

   Note: The word has no definite application to any particular plant, or species of plants. Whatever plants grow among corn or grass, in hedges, or elsewhere, and are useless to man, injurious to crops, or unsightly or out of place, are denominated weeds.

3. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

4. (Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from.

5. Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang]

   Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.
   --Tusser.

"plant not valued for use or beauty," Old English weod, uueod "grass, herb, weed," from Proto-Germanic *weud- (cognates: Old Saxon wiod, East Frisian wiud), of unknown origin. Also applied to trees that grow abundantly. Meaning "tobacco" is from c.1600; that of "marijuana" is from 1920s. The chemical weed-killer is attested by 1885.

"to clear the ground of weeds," late Old English weodian "to weed," from the source of weed (n.). Figurative use by c.1400. Related: Weeded; weeding; weeder.

Etymology 1 n. (label en countable) Any plant regarded as unwanted at the place where, and at the time when it is growing. Etymology 2

vb. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated are

1. Etymology 3

   n. 1 (context archaic English) A garment or piece of clothing. 2 (context archaic English) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress. 3 (context archaic English) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge. 4 (context archaic English) '''widow's weeds''': female mourning apparel Etymology 4

   v

2. (en-past of: wee)

v. clear of weeds; "weed the garden"

1. n. any plant that crowds out cultivated plants [ant: cultivated plant]

2. street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green goddess, dope, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane]

A weed is an unwanted plant of any species.

Weed or weeds may also refer to: marijuana

WEED "1390 Jammin' Gospel" is an AM radio station broadcasting a gospel music format. Licensed to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA, it serves the Rocky Mount/ Wilson area. The station is currently owned by Northstar Broadcasting Corporation.

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks. Taxonomically, the term "weed" has no botanical significance, because a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing in a situation where it is in fact wanted, and where one species of plant is a valuable crop plant, another species in the same genus might be a serious weed, such as a wild bramble growing among cultivated loganberries. Many plants that people widely regard as weeds also are intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings. The term also is applied to any plant that grows or reproduces aggressively, or is invasive outside its native habitat. More broadly "weed" occasionally is applied pejoratively to species outside the plant kingdom, species that can survive in diverse environments and reproduce quickly; in this sense it has even been applied to humans.

Weed is a surname. It may refer to:

Weed is the tenth album by singer-songwriter and guitarist, Chris Whitley. It is his eighth studio album.

The album is Whitley's acoustic re-recording of a selection of songs he wrote from 1986-1996 for his three recordings on Columbia / Work Records: Living with the Law (1991), Din of Ecstasy (1995), and Terra Incognita (1997).

It was produced and recorded by Chris Whitley live to a two-track MD in Susann Bürger's bathroom / Sebnitzer Straße and Space House / Katharinenstraße in Dresden, Germany.