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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 weed /ˈwid/
 雜草,野草(vi.)除草(vt.)除…的草,剔除

From: Taiwan MOE computer dictionary

 weed
 廢物; 淘汰; 清除; 拋棄

From: Network Terminology

 weed
 雜物

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Weed n.
 1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.  “Lowly shepherd's weeds.” --Spenser. “Woman's weeds.” --Shak. “This beggar woman's weed.” --Tennyson.
 He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore
 Put off.   --Chapman.
 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.
    In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.   --Milton.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Weed, n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.  [Scot.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Weed, n.
 1. Underbrush; low shrubs.  [Obs. or Archaic]
    One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.   --Spenser.
 A wild and wanton pard . . .
 Crouched fawning in the weed.   --Tennyson.
 2. 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.
    Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.   --Denham.
 Note:The word has no definite application to any particular plant, or species of plants. Whatever plants grow among corn or grass, in hedges, or elsewhere, and are useless to man, injurious to crops, or unsightly or out of place, are denominated weeds.
 3. Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
 4. Stock Breeding An animal unfit to breed from.
 5. Tobacco, or a cigar.  [Slang]
 Weed hook, a hook used for cutting away or extirpating weeds.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Weed, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weeded; p. pr. & vb. n. Weeding.]
 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; -- commonly used with out; as, to weed out inefficiency from an enterprise.  Weed up thyme.”
    Wise fathers . . . weeding from their children ill things.   --Ascham.
    Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.   --Bacon.
 3. To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
    He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.   --Howell.
 4. Stock Breeding To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 weed
      n 1: any plant that crowds out cultivated plants [ant: cultivated
           plant]
      2: street names for marijuana [syn: pot, grass, green
         goddess, dope, gage, sess, sens, smoke, skunk,
          locoweed, Mary Jane]
      v : clear of weeds; "weed the garden"