WEED

pot, grass, green goddess, dope, weed, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk, locoweed, Mary Jane

(noun) street names for marijuana

weed, mourning band

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

weed

(noun) any plant that crowds out cultivated plants

weed

(verb) clear of weeds; “weed the garden”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Weed

A city in Siskiyou County, California, United States.

Etymology 1

Noun

weed (countable and uncountable, plural weeds)

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

Short for duckweed.

(uncountable, archaic or obsolete) Underbrush; low shrubs.

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

(uncountable, slang) Cannabis.

Synonym: Thesaurus:marijuana

(with "the", uncountable, slang) Tobacco.

(obsolete, countable) A cigar.

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

(countable, British, informal) A puny person; one who has little physical strength.

(countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Etymology 2

Verb

weed (third-person singular simple present weeds, present participle weeding, simple past and past participle weeded)

To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area.

Etymology 3

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

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

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

Etymology 4

Noun

weed (plural weeds)

(Scotland) 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.

(Scotland) Lymphangitis in a horse.

Etymology 5

Verb

weed

simple past tense and past participle of wee

Source: Wiktionary

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Weed, n. Etym: [OE. wede, AS. w, w; akin to OS. wadi, giwadi, OFries, w, w, OD. wade, OHG. wat, Icel. va, Zend vadh to clothe.]

1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "Lowweeds." 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, n.

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

Weed, n. Etym: [OE. weed, weod, AS. weód, wiód, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiodon.]

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)

Definition: An animal unfit to breed from.

5. Tobacco, or a cigar. [Slang] Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds. Tusser.

Weed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding.] Etym: [AS. weódian. 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. "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)

Definition: To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

WEE

Wee, n. Etym: [OE. we a bit, in a little we, probably originally meaning, a little way, the word we for wei being later taken as synonymous with little. See Way.]

Definition: A little; a bit, as of space, time, or distance. [Obs. or Scot.]

Wee, a.

Definition: Very small; little. [Colloq. & Scot.] A little wee face, with a little yellow beard. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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