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Weed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

2. Any kind of unprofitable substance among ores in mines, as mundic or marcasite.

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.

Weed [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Weed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

3. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

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.

Weed [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.

2. To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.

3. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.

4. To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

Weed-hook [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.

Weeded [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Freed from weeds or whatever is noxious.

Weeded [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Weeder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that weeds or frees from any thing noxious.

Weeder [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, weeds, or frees from anything noxious.

Weedery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growing weeds.

Weeding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The operation of freeing from noxious weeds, as a crop.

Weeding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Freeing from weeds or whatever is noxious to growth.

Weeding Webster's Dictionary 1913

a. & n. from Weed, v.

Weeding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Weeding-chisel [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

S as z. A tool with a divided chisel point, for cutting the roots of large weeds within the ground.

Weeding-forceps [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding.

Weeding-fork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A strong three-pronged fork, used in cleaning ground of weeds.

Weeding-hook [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

WEED-HOOK, WEEDING-HOOK noun [weed and hook.] A hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.

Weeding-rhim [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An implement somewhat like the frame of a wheel-barrow, used for tearing up weeds on summer fallows, etc.; used in Kent, England.

Weeding-rhim [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of implement used for tearing up weeds esp. on summer fallows.

Weeding-tongs [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

WEEDING-FORCEPS, WEEDING-TONGS noun An instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding.

Weedless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Free from weeds or noxious matter.

Weedless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Free from weeds or noxious matter.

Weedy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Consisting of weeds; as weedy trophies.

2. Abounding with weeds; as weedy grounds; a weedy garden; weedy corn.

Weedy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments.

Weedy [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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2 KJV and 11 BSB verses contain “Weed”

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Jonah 2:5

The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

Zephaniah 2:9

Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah— a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”

Matthew 13:25

But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.

Matthew 13:26

But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.

When the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the weeds also appeared.

Matthew 13:27

So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?

The owner’s servants came to him and said, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?’

Matthew 13:29

But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.

‘No,’ he said, ‘if you pull the weeds now, you might uproot the wheat with them.

Matthew 13:30

Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Matthew 13:36

Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.

Then Jesus dismissed the crowds and went into the house. His disciples came to Him and said, “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”

Matthew 13:38

The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,

Matthew 13:40

As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

As the weeds are collected and burned in the fire, so will it be at the end of the age.

Matthew 13:41

The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;

The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will weed out of His kingdom every cause of sin and all who practice lawlessness.

Sirach 40:16

The weed growing upon every water and bank of a river shall be pulled up before all grass.