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WordNet
While the farmer and his servants are sleeping under a tree, the devil is sowing weeds in the field where they have just sown wheat.
While the farmer and his servants are sleeping under a tree, the devil is sowing weeds in the field where they have just sown wheat.
  1. (v) weed
    clear of weeds "weed the garden"
  2. (n) weed
    street names for marijuana
  3. (n) weed
    a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning
  4. (n) weed
    any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
Illustrations
The farmer grows weeds and grain together. At harvest time he harvests the grain and burns the weeds.
The farmer grows weeds and grain together. At harvest time he harvests the grain and burns the weeds.
The master of the house forbids his servants to pull the weeds in the field, because the grain will be destroyed. Only during the harvest are they allowed to weed and burn the weeds. Letters are added to various elements of the scene. The print is part of an album.
The master of the house forbids his servants to pull the weeds in the field, because the grain will be destroyed. Only during the harvest are they allowed to weed and burn the weeds. Letters are added to various elements of the scene. The print is part of an album.
Top left "The unfinished building", top right "The weeds under the wheat" (Matt. 13). At the bottom left in a medallion an image of a man who wants to cut down the barren fig tree, but is warned to wait another year (Luke 13: 6-9). At the bottom right in a medallion the judge and the widow. This print is an illustration from 'Extracted Biblical Stories, to a Reading Book for Young People'.
Top left "The unfinished building", top right "The weeds under the wheat" (Matt. 13). At the bottom left in a medallion an image of a man who wants to cut down the barren fig tree, but is warned to wait another year (Luke 13: 6-9). At the bottom right in a medallion the judge and the widow. This print is an illustration from 'Extracted Biblical Stories, to a Reading Book for Young People'.
(1) is rock weed, (2) is feather weed, (3) is sea lettuce.
(1) is rock weed, (2) is feather weed, (3) is sea lettuce.
Landscape with farm. In the foreground the parable of Christ about the devil who sows weeds among the grain, while the farmers are asleep (Matt. 13:24). With a Latin motto above the image and a four-line caption in Latin below the print. The print is part of an album.
Landscape with farm. In the foreground the parable of Christ about the devil who sows weeds among the grain, while the farmers are asleep (Matt. 13:24). With a Latin motto above the image and a four-line caption in Latin below the print. The print is part of an album.
Two women pull the weeds in the wheat field. A man by a bird cage is watching them. The print contains an explanation of the depiction in German, Dutch and French.
Two women pull the weeds in the wheat field. A man by a bird cage is watching them. The print contains an explanation of the depiction in German, Dutch and French.
While the farmers sleep, the devil sows weeds among the grain
While the farmers sleep, the devil sows weeds among the grain
Workers busy weeding the sisal fields, during the visit of the governor to the Plantation Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Part of the photo album from ca. 1912-1913 with 92 photos of the plantations Peperpot and Dordrecht in Suriname and Mount Pleasant on Curaçao.
Workers busy weeding the sisal fields, during the visit of the governor to the Plantation Mount Pleasant in Curaçao. Part of the photo album from ca. 1912-1913 with 92 photos of the plantations Peperpot and Dordrecht in Suriname and Mount Pleasant on Curaçao.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Weed
    A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
  2. Weed
    (Stock Breeding) An animal unfit to breed from.
  3. Weed
    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 ."
  4. Weed
    Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
  5. Weed
    To free from anything hurtful or offensive. "He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana."
  6. Weed
    (Stock Breeding) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
  7. Weed
    To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate; -- commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise. "Weed up thyme.", "Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.", "Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
  8. Weed
    Tobacco, or a cigar.
  9. Weed
    Underbrush; low shrubs. "One rushing forth out of the thickest weed .", "A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed ."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) weed
    The vegetative parts of the cotton-plant as opposed to the flowers and fruit.
  2. (n) weed
    The mad-dog skull-cap or madweed, Scutellaria lateriflora.
  3. (n) weed
    Any one of those herbaceous plants which are useless and without special beauty, or especially which are positively troublesome. The application of this general term is somewhat relative. Handsome but pernicious plants, as the oxeye daisy, cone-flower, and the purple cow-wheat of Europe (Melampyrum aruense), are weeds to the agriculturist, flowers to the esthetic. So also plants that are cultivated for use or beauty, as grasses, hemp, carrot, parsnip, morning-glory, become weeds when they spring up where they are not wanted. The exotics of cool countries are sometimes weeds in the tropics.
  4. (n) weed
    A sorry, worthless animal unfit for the breeding of stock; especially, a leggy, loose-bodied horse; a race-horse having the appearance but wanting the other qualities of a thorough bred.
  5. (n) weed
    A cigar; with the definite article, tobacco.
  6. weed
    To free from weeds or noxious plants.
  7. weed
    To take away, as noxious plants; remove what is injurious, offensive, or unseemly; extirpate.
  8. weed
    To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
  9. weed
    To root up and remove weeds, or anything resembling weeds.
  10. weed
    A reduced form of weeded, past participle of weed.
  11. (n) weed
    A garment of any sort, especially an outer garment; hence, garments in general, especially the whole costume worn at any one time: now commonly in the plural, and chiefly in the phrase widows' weeds. See widow.
  12. (n) weed
    A general name for any sudden illness from cold or relapse, usually accompanied by febrile symptoms, taken by women after confinement or during nursing, especially milk-fever or inflammation of the breast.
  13. (n) weed
    Lymphangitis in the horse, characterized by fever and temporary swelling of the limbs. It appears usually after a period of inactivity.
  14. (n) weed
    A heavy weight.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Weed
    wēd any useless plant of small growth: anything useless or troublesome; a sorry animal, a worthless fellow:
  2. (v.t) Weed
    to free from weeds: to remove anything hurtful or offensive
  3. (n) Weed
    wēd a garment, esp. in pl. a widow's mourning apparel
  4. (n) Weed
    wēd (Scot.) a popular name for any sudden illness, cold, or relapse with febrile symptoms in women after confinement or nursing: lymphangitis in the horse
  5. Weed
    Also Weid
  6. (n) Weed
    wēd (coll.) a cigar
Quotations
Luther Burbank
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Luther Burbank
We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
Jonathan Westover
Thomas Fuller
A good garden may have some weeds.
Thomas Fuller
Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Idioms

A lost ball in the high weeds - A lost ball in the high weeds is someone who does not know what they are doing, where they are or how to do something.

Demon weed - Tobacco is the demon weed.

Small dog, tall weeds - This idiom is used to describe someone the speaker does not believe has the ability or resources to handle a task or job.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. wede, AS. wǣde, wǣd,; akin to OS. wādi, giwādi, OFries, wēde, wēd, OD. wade, OHG. wāt, Icel. vāð, Zend vadh, to clothe

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. wéod, an herb.

Usage in the news

FGCU still growing like a weed. news-press.com

Of course, you might know them by a more common name: weeds. oprah.com

Councilman Jeff Koch has scheduled a Weed and Seed meeting for members of Hilltop communities on Wednesday, Jan 31, 7:30 pm at the Potters House Cathedral, 430 Cathedral Avenue. sopghreporter.com

She said she did a "Friend Cleanse " where she weeded out people who didnt have her best interest at heart. 1061kissfm.com

There was a weed-covered livestock trail to the property, and Mr Heizer wore out a new truck a year getting to and from the place. nytimes.com

Wallop your weeds at season's beginning. courierherald.com

Dhar Mann, Owner of Oakland's WeGrow, the "Wal-Mart of Weed", Faces Thirteen Felony Charges. eastbayexpress.com

Still, most people remember him from his work on the Showtime drama "Weeds," appearances in Adam Sandler movies or his nearly decade-long stint on "Saturday Night Live. omaha.com

No volunteers could mean village hires weed removal service. lakegenevanews.net

The weed situation in Pell Lake continues to get worse. lakegenevanews.net

Roanoker Jeff Ell 's plan for defeating weeds. mra.org

"In 2010, there were 24 states in the country that had weeds with confirmed resistance," says Damon Palmer, US commercial leader Enlist weed control system for Dow AgroSciences. croplife.com

It gives us a chance to get outside on our lunch hour at least once a week and pull a few weeds or harvest some zucchini. organicgardening.com

Is it a weed or a wildflower and can I grow it in my own garden. al.com

It also must be accompanied by correct mowing heights, proper irrigation schedule and weed and pest control for the best results. newstimes.augusta.com

Usage in scientific papers

One of the weeds has no extensions which pass the associativity test.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

On the next step of the odometer, there are no weeds that pass the associativity test.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

In particular, we obtain the following classification statement with a ‘manageable’ set of weeds.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

First, in §6.1 we produce an initial list of weeds, which begin with either a triple point or a quadruple point.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

In §6.2, we then run the odometer for a single step extending all of the triple point weeds by one depth.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

Usage in literature

The flower beds are that full now abody can hardly get in to weed 'em still. "Patchwork" by Anna Balmer Myers

It seemed to come from the weed-prairie, and we both ran up on the high bank to ascertain what success had attended the shot. "The War Trail" by Mayne Reid

There was a field adjoining the corral, or what had once been a field, but from neglect had run into a bed of grass and weeds. "The White Chief" by Mayne Reid

Oh, doctor, you are returned with your weeds! "The Scalp Hunters" by Mayne Reid

There's a trout, sir, at the tail of that weed. "Lines in Pleasant Places" by William Senior

Then they refused to trade their weed. "The Heart of Unaga" by Ridgwell Cullum

Then they espied James weeding out the garden beds. "A Little Girl in Old Boston" by Amanda Millie Douglas

It is really a weed of cultivation met with generally on rich soils. "A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses" by Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar

The history of this loathsome weed. "A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco" by Orin Fowler

The young plants were kept free from weeds, and were transplanted when about two inches high. "Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce" by E. R. Billings

Usage in poetry
'Black, black,' sang she,
'Black, black my weeds shall be,
My love has widowed me!
Black, black!' sang she.
My folk were godly Churchmen,—
Or paced in Elders' weeds;
But all were grave and pious
And hated heathen creeds.
Weigh not His crib, His wooden dish,
Nor beasts that by Him feed;
Weigh not His mother's poor attire,
Nor Joseph's simple weed.
Or if an aspiration pale
Must quicken there--oh, let the spot
Grow weeds! that dost may so prevail,
Where spirit once could not!
Oh, not for her the florist's art,
The mocking weeds of woe;
Dear memories in each mourner's heart
Like heaven's white lilies blow.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.