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- noun Plural form of
weed . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
weed . - noun obsolete
Clothes .
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- noun a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning
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Examples
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Perhaps, if we could penetrate Nature's secrets, we should find that what we call weeds are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious fruit or grain.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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It is certainly a true one, for most of the plants which we call weeds grow quickly and well wherever they are allowed to remain.
Wildflowers of the Farm Arthur Owens Cooke
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"Perhaps if we could penetrate Nature's secrets we should find that what we call weeds are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious fruit or grain."
The Community Cook Book Anonymous
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For the place of the weeds is among stones, where the gardener wishes no plants.
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It was strange to me at first to see how often she introduced those homelier wild-flowers which we call weeds, -- for it seemed there was none of them too humble for her to love, and none too little cared for by Nature to be without its beauty for her artist eye and pencil.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It was strange to me at first to see how often she introduced those homelier wild-flowers which we call weeds, -- for it seemed there was none of them too humble for her to love, and none too little cared for by Nature to be without its beauty for her artist eye and pencil.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Perhaps, if we could penetrate Nature's secrets, we should find that what we call weeds are more essential to the well-being of the world than the most precious fruit or grain.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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I've got to go with the scum frog for stuff in weeds and other stuff and probably a buzzbait for all other purposes.
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I've got to go with the scum frog for stuff in weeds and other stuff and probably a buzzbait for all other purposes.
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One way to get rid of weeds is to go out in or after a heavy rain and pull them when the ground is soft (even softer than having been manually watered in advance).
brtom commented on the word weeds
And they who to be sure of Paradise
Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,
Or in Franciscan think to pass disguis'd ...
Milton, Paradise Lost III
December 19, 2006
fearraigh commented on the word weeds
I like its archaic synonym for 'livery', as cited above.
February 22, 2007