Small; little. [Not in use.]
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Very small; little.
1. The general name of any plant that is useless or noxious. The word therefore has no definite application to any particular plant or species of plants; but whatever plants grow among corn, grass, or in hedges, and which are either of no use to man or injurious to crops, are denominated weeds.
3. Properly, a garment, as in Spenser, but now used only in the plural, weeds, for the mourning apparel of a female; as a widows weeds.
4. An upper garment.
1. To free from noxious plants; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
2. To take away, as noxious plants; as, to weed a writing of invectives.
3. To free from any thing hurtful or offensive; as, to weed a kingdom of bad subjects.
4. To root out vice; as, to weed the hearts of the young.
1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
2. 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. Underbrush; low shrubs.
5. 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.
6. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
7. An animal unfit to breed from.
8. Tobacco, or a cigar.
1. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
3. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
4. To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
A hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.
One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.
Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.
Freeing from weeds or whatever is noxious to growth.
S as z. A tool with a divided chisel point, for cutting the roots of large weeds within the ground.
An instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding.
1. Consisting of weeds; as weedy trophies.
2. Abounding with weeds; as weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
1. Of or pertaining to weeds; consisting of weeds.
2. Abounding with weeds; as, weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.
3. Scraggy; ill-shaped; ungainly; -- said of colts or horses, and also of persons.
1. The space of seven days.
2. I fast twice in the week Luke 18:12 .
3. In Scripture, a prophetic week is a week of years, or seven years. Daniel 9:27 .
A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath or Sunday to the next.
Week
Encyclopedia Britannica
WEEK. See Calendar and Sabbath.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 477
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Any day of the week except the Sabbath.
Littleness Roget’s Thesaurus §193
N. littleness, smallness, exiguity, inextension, parvitude, parvity, duodecimo, elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm, rudiment, vanishing point, thinness, dwarf, pygmy, pigmy, liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf, atomy, dandiprat, doll, puppet, tom thumb, hop-o'-my- thumb, manikin, mannikin, homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow, animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon, bacteria, infusoria, microzoa, phytozoaria, microbe, grub, tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry, millet seed, mustard seed, barleycorn, pebble, grain of sand, molehill, button, bubble, point, atom, fragment, powder, point of a pin, mathematical point, minutiae, micrometer, vernier, scale, microphotography, photomicrography, micrography, photomicrograph, microphotograph, microscopy, microscope (optical instruments) 445
V. be little, lie in a nutshell, become small, (contract) 195
Adj. little, small, minute, diminutive, microscopic, microzoal, inconsiderable, exiguous, puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, miniature, pygmy, pigmy, elfin, undersized, dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish, spare, stunted, limited, cramp, cramped, pollard, liliputian, dapper, pocket, portative, portable, duodecimo, dumpy, squat, short, impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible, inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial, infinitesimal, homoeopathic, atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular, rudimentary, rudimental, embryonic, vestigial, weazen|, scant, scraggy, scrubby, thin, granular, shrunk, brevipennate
Adv. in a small compass, in a nutshell, on a small scale, minutely, microscopically
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Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.
Finish this week’s celebration, and we will give you the younger one in return for another seven years of work.”
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
And Jacob did just that. He finished the week’s celebration, and Laban gave him his daughter Rachel as his wife.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
But if she bear a maid child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation: and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.
If, however, she gives birth to a daughter, the woman will be unclean for two weeks as she is during her menstruation. Then she must continue in purification from her bleeding for sixty-six days.
Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work:
On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.