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.
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.
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) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.