weed

1. n. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. Source: opted

4. n. Underbrush; low shrubs. Source: opted

5. n. 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. Source: opted

6. n. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. Source: opted

7. n. An animal unfit to breed from. Source: opted

8. n. Tobacco, or a cigar. Source: opted

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

10. v. t. To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate. Source: opted

11. v. t. To free from anything hurtful or offensive. Source: opted

12. v. t. To reject as unfit for breeding purposes. Source: opted

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