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.


 Weed·ing, a. & n. from Weed, v.
 Weeding chisel, a tool with a divided chisel-like end, for cutting the roots of large weeds under ground.
 Weeding forceps, an instrument for taking up some sorts of plants in weeding.
 Weeding fork, a strong, three-pronged fork, used in clearing ground of weeds; -- called also weeding iron.
 Weeding hook. Same as Weed hook, under 3d Weed.
 Weeding iron. See Weeding fork, above.
 Weeding tongs. Same as Weeding forceps, above.

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