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Weedy: Definition and part of speech

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Weedy

  1. a. Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.
  2. superl. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
  3. superl. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
  4. superl. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; — said of colts or horses, and also of persons.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Weed: Definition and part of speech

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Weed

  1. n. Tobacco, or a cigar.
  2. n. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
  3. 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.
  4. n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
  5. n. Underbrush; low shrubs.
  6. 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.
  7. n. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
  8. n. An animal unfit to breed from.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.