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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. (n) weeds
    a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning
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.
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
Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
Emily Bronte
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
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry Ward Beecher
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher
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.

Usage in the news

The federal government has said no to Weed. redding.com

For years, relying on postemergence applications of glyphosate on Roundup Ready crops remedied weed worries. agriculture.com

Farmers use atrazine to kill weeds, especially in corn fields. minnesota.publicradio.org

Dunst 'weeds' out rumors at bag-theft trial. nypost.com

In 1928, Sterling D Weed became the fifth member of his two brothers' dance band, and "Weed's Jolly Four" needed a new name. nytimes.com

Weed's Imperial Orchestra was born. nytimes.com

Al Weed ran away to be a farmer when he was in the seventh grade, and that story is posted prominently on his website. readthehook.com

Marijuana Delivery Man Says Ninjas Took His Weed. laweekly.com

Volunteers gathered to weed and plant community gardens on the city property. kitsapsun.com

Conditions add up to a great year for weeds. dentonrc.com

The weed was first identified in the southwestern part of the state in 2002, he notes. hayandforage.com

A few weeks ago I told you guys about a couple old people in England who were growing "weed" in their garden. kfmx.com

Many weed scientists believe agriculture is a continuing struggle with weeds - without good weed control, good and profitable agriculture is impossible. elsevier.com

While it's impossible to create a perfectly weed -free garden, you can create a garden that's free of serious weed problems. gardeningclub.com

Rotary mowers and weed eaters are other good choices for weed control in larger areas. sunset.com

Usage in scientific papers

Apply the associativity test and remove all vines and all weeds which fail it.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

These figures are trees, with the initial graph on the left, and each successive equal shows the new weeds that arise that pass the associativity tests.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

VW Finally, the old weed (Γ, Γ(cid:48) ) is added to the list of vines.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

The current weeds are highlighted in the figure in red.
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

The old weed (Γ, Γ(cid:48) ) is left in the picture to explain what happened in the odometer at earlier steps (in this case the zeroth step) and is necessary for recovering the vines (see below).
Subfactors of index less than 5, part 1: the principal graph odometer

Usage in literature

Once on our travels we passed a man who was weeding his field. "Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)" by Carl Lumholtz

It was much overgrown with underbrush, weeds, and wild flowers. "The Fat of the Land" by John Williams Streeter

But he still clung to the weed, and struck the ground inside of it. "The Voyage of the Rattletrap" by Hayden Carruth

Many people thought the money 'e 'ad on 'is person weighed 'im down, kept 'im entangled in the weeds at the bottom of the lake. "The Chink in the Armour" by Marie Belloc Lowndes

The best time to cultivate, then, to kill weeds is as soon as the weeds appear. "The First Book of Farming" by Charles L. Goodrich

The enemy comes in the night and sows weeds. "I.N.R.I." by Peter Rosegger

She worked and dug and pulled up weeds steadily, only becoming more pleased with her work every hour instead of tiring of it. "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Not a big beginning kept up until the little weeds become big weeds. "Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916" by Various

The man had also turned around, bent down, and gone on weeding the corn. "The Delight Makers" by Adolf Bandelier

I tell you, I'll ask Gertie if she doesn't think that I ought to be weeded out. "The Land of Promise" by D. Torbett

Usage in poetry
One sunny morn
With alms before her castle gate she stood,
Midst peasant-groups; when, breathless and o'erworn,
And shrouded in long weeds of widowhood,
"The Lady Of The Castle" by Felicia Dorothea Hemans Author object (205)
See pallid women girt in woe and weeds!
See little children gaunt for lack of food!
Behold the catalogue of War's black deeds
Where evil stands for good!
"Arms And The Man - The Ravages Of War" by James Barron Hope
But the billows are lost in a whelming wave,
Whose voice shall be never weary;
And Fancy has withered, like weeds on the grave
Of my loved, my ruined Mary.
"Stanzas #3" by John Gardiner Calkins Brainard Author object (373)
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.
"Inversnaid" by Govinda Krishna Chettur
Less than the weed, that grows beside thy door,
Less than the speed of hours spent far from thee,
Less than the need thou hast in life of me.
Even less am I.
""Less than the Dust"" by Laurence Hope
"An' there they left the ol' barkey layin',
An' there, most like, she's layin' now,
With weeds like Noah's whiskers swayin'
Along her keel from stern to bow."
"Doldrums: One Of Murphy's Yarns" by Cicely Fox Smith