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Bible Dictionaries
Weed
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(2):
(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(3):
(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
(4):
(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(5):
(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(6):
(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(7):
(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(8):
(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(11):
(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(12):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Weed'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/weed.html. 1828.
