| • | A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. |
| • | 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. |
| • | A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. |
| • | Underbrush; low shrubs. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. |
| • | An animal unfit to breed from. |
| • | Tobacco, or a cigar. |
| • | To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden. |
| • | To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate. |
| • | To free from anything hurtful or offensive. |
| • | To reject as unfit for breeding purposes. |
