Definition of weed

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