Definition of weed

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Weed (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

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Fitweed :: Fitweed (n.) A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.
Weed :: Weed (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Centinody :: Centinody (n.) A weed with a stem of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass..
Weedy :: Weedy (superl.) Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons..
Downweed :: Downweed (n.) Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium..
Weedy :: Weedy (superl.) Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
Murlins :: Murlins (n.) A seaweed. See Baddrelocks.
Cockle :: Cockle (n.) A plant or weed that grows among grain; the corn rose (Luchnis Githage).
Limu :: Limu (n.) The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc..
Sea Lettuce :: Sea lettuce () The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus Ulva, sometimes used as food..
Weeder :: Weeder (n.) One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious..
Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed..
Tang :: Tang (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..
Fallow :: Fallow (n.) To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land..
Toadflax :: Toadflax (n.) An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted..
Conium :: Conium (n.) The common hemlock (Conium maculatum, poison hemlock, spotted hemlock, poison parsley), a roadside weed of Europe, Asia, and America, cultivated in the United States for medicinal purpose. It is an active poison. The leaves and fruit are used in medicine..
Cultivator :: Cultivator (n.) An agricultural implement used in the tillage of growing crops, to loosen the surface of the earth and kill the weeds; esp., a triangular frame set with small shares, drawn by a horse and by handles..
Fallow :: Fallow (n.) The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds..
Water Pimpernel :: Water pimpernel () A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
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