weed

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A garment or piece of clothing. archaic
    — Lie here ye weedes that I diſdaine to weare, This compleat armor, and this curtle-axe Are adiuncts more beſeeming Tamburlaine.
  2. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which befalls those who are about to give birth, are giving birth, or have recently given birth or miscarried or aborted. Scotland,countable,uncountable
    — The patient […] aborted between the second and third month; […] felt herself so well on the second day after, that she went to the washing-green; and, on her return home in the evening, was seized with a violent rigor, which, by herself and those around her, was considered as the forerunner of a weed.
  3. Any plant unwanted at the place where and at the time when it is growing. countable
    — If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a weed.
  4. Ellipsis of duckweed. abbreviation,alt-of,countable,ellipsis,uncountable
  5. Clothing collectively; clothes, dress. archaic
    — His mother o'er her barm-cloth wide / Gazed forward somewhat timidly / The new-comer's bright weed to see.
  6. Lymphangitis in a horse. Scotland,countable,uncountable
  7. Underbrush; low shrubs. archaic,obsolete,uncountable
    — one rushing forth out of the thickest weed
  8. An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge. archaic
    — He wore a weed on his hat.
  9. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.; Cannabis. informal,uncountable
    — Hold up, hey / For my niggas who be actin' too bold, take a seat / Hope you ready for the next episode / Hey, hey, hey, hey / Smoke weed every day
  10. A hatband. archaic
    — […] he was beat and retreated back to his old encampment with his weed on his hat dragging on the ground, with the loss of more than nineteen hundred men; […]
  11. Especially in the plural as widow's weeds: (female) mourning apparel. archaic
    — O Sir, if we could but see the shape of our deare Mother England, as poets are wont to give a personal form to what they please, how would she appeare, think ye, but in a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing from her eyes, to behold so many of her children expos'd at once, and thrust from things of dearest necessity, because their conscience could not assent to things which the Bishops thought indifferent.
  12. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.; Tobacco. colloquial,uncountable
  13. A drug or the like made from the leaves or flowers of a plant.; A cigar. colloquial,countable,obsolete
    — "If ever you smoke, my dear aunt (and I am told that many women take a quiet weed under the rose), be very careful how you choose your cigars."
  14. A weak horse, which is therefore unfit to breed from. countable
  15. A puny person; one who has little physical strength. UK,countable,informal
  16. Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. countable,figuratively
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of wee form-of,participle,past
  2. To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area (especially grass). transitive
    — I weeded my flower bed.
  3. To pilfer the best items from a collection. figuratively,transitive
    — She now regretted much having had the case taken to the duke's, for surely it might have been weeded to very good purpose, and no one the wiser.
  4. To systematically remove materials from a library collection based on a set of criteria. transitive
    — We usually weed romance novels that haven't circulated in over a year.

词形变化

weeds plural weeds present,singular,third-person weeding participle,present weeded participle,past weeded past weeds plural weeds plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *weud
Old English wēod
Middle English weed
English weed
From Middle English weed, weod, from Old English wēod (“weed”), from Proto-West Germanic *weud (“weed”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jood (“weed”), West Frisian wjûd (“weed”), Dutch wied (“unwanted plant, weed”), German Low German Weed (“weed”), Old High German wiota (“fern”). See also woad.
词源 2
From Middle English weeden, weden, from Old English wēodian (“to weed”), from Proto-Germanic *weudōną (“to uproot, weed”). Cognate with West Frisian wjûde, wjudde (“to weed”),
Dutch wieden (“to weed”), German Low German weden (“to weed”).
词源 3
From Middle English wede, from Old English wǣd (“dress, attire, clothing, garment”), from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz, from which also wad, wadmal. Cognate with Dutch lijnwaad, Dutch gewaad, German Wat.
词源 4
From Scots weid, weed. The longer form weidinonfa, wytenonfa (Old Scots wedonynpha) is attested since the 1500s. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language analyses the longer form as a compound meaning "onfa(ll) of a weed", whereas the Scottish National Dictionary/DSL considers the short form a derivative of the longer form, and derives its first element from Old English wēdan (“to be mad or delirious”), from wōd (“mad, enraged”).
词源 5
From the verb wee.
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