(n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Careless Herbicidal aerial spray of a field for weed control and defoliation of cotton before machine picking, resulted in the contamination of an adjoining reservoir, killing large volume of fish.
(2) In lieu of crop rotation and biodiversity (the non-toxic way to control weeds), the MSU extension service promotes what the article calls a "diversified herbicide program".
(3) The condition has occurred for many years and has been thought to have been associated with ingestion of Crofton weed (Eupatorium adenophorum).
(4) There is, of course, a place for regulatory vigilance, for forcing entire institutions to clean up after themselves by paying hefty fines, and weeding out bad practices.
(5) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(6) The coalition claims that authorities were forcing teachers, businessmen and students to weed the fields or pick cotton or face fines of up to 1 million soum (about £210) for university students.
(7) Bob McCulloch, the St Louis County prosecutor who oversaw the state grand jury inquiry that looked into Brown’s death, insisted that discrimination by law enforcement was a rarity but said authorities must “weed it out”.
(8) Unions blame 70% fall in employment tribunal cases on fees Read more “The government originally said making people pay would weed out vexatious claims.
(9) He also promised Thatcher a new crackdown on immigrant male fiances, saying that he was thinking of "a kind of steeplechase designed to weed out south Asians in particular".
(10) The substances studied generally proved very active against the weeds tested and showed marked specificity of action towards Setaria and Echinochloa.
(11) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
(12) In a statement on Wednesday , he said that he will criticise the Met for "the routine gathering and retention of information that was collateral, not linked to an operation or the prevention of crime and it should have been disposed of as part of a weeding process."
(13) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(14) One of their number, James Howard Kunstler, blasted the High Line as "decadent" , "a weed-filled 1.5 mile-long stretch of abandoned elevated railroad", where "mistakes are artfully multiplied and layered", such as "the notion that buildings don't have to relate to the street-and-block grid ... instead of repairing the discontinuities of recent decades, we just celebrate them and make them worse".
(15) We have the know-how to track organisations that achieve the best results for patients, and weed out those that don't come up to scratch."
(16) After weeding, planting or harvesting, people attempt to make money.
(17) Animal Practice is a Universal Television production based on an irreverent New York veterinarian, played by Justin Kirk of Weeds and Angels in America.
(18) Some physicochemical properties of the mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNA) from plants of flax, broad bean and mung bean, and from tissue culture cells of jimson weed, soybean, petunia and tobacco were determined.
(19) Weed and water samples collected from river water abstraction points, reservoirs, tap water supplies, and animal water troughs fed from this supply all contained low levels of iodine-125.
(20) There has been a troubling several decade-long pattern of denial on the part of the seed patent holders over the likelihood of resistance emerging - for example Monsanto authors of a 1997 paper asserted weed resistance would never happen.
Weep
Definition:
(v. i.) Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry, or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry.
(n.) The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
() imp. of Weep, for wept.
(v. i.) To lament; to complain.
(v. i.) To flow in drops; to run in drops.
(v. i.) To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked.
(v. i.) To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to droop; -- said of a plant or its branches.
(v. t.) To lament; to bewail; to bemoan.
(v. t.) To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as if tears; as, to weep tears of joy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients with bilateral forebrain disease may commonly manifest the syndrome of pathologic laughing and weeping.
(2) Pilgrims from all over the world, many weeping and clutching precious mementos or photographs of loved ones, jostle beneath its soaring domes every day.
(3) We report the emergence of an erythematous weeping rash with impending exfoliation three years after the initiation of minoxidil therapy.
(4) Abu Qatada's brothers, children and sisters remained on a court bench, some of the women weeping as journalists pressed against the courtroom cell to ask the Salafist leader about his views on Isis violence.
(5) Dan Heymann, a reluctant army conscript, wrote the brutally satirical Weeping for His Band Bright Blue .
(6) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
(7) Past reunions brought together weeping family members desperate for details and news.
(8) A Syrian man who was pictured weeping as he and his family reached the Greek island of Kos last month has arrived in Berlin, it has been reported.
(9) People were weeping in the streets outside, but once the fire was out everyone took stock a little bit.
(10) How was I expected to get through the night without weeping openly?
(11) That’s fine, that’s the great thing about being an artist – I’m not going to weep over their multimillion-pound suit trousers.” Grayson Perry: All Man concludes on Thursday 19 May at 10pm on Channel 4
(12) As measured by the Hospital Observed Behavior Scale, subjects in the intensive care unit exhibited apprehension, anxiety, detachment, sadness, and weeping more often than did patients in the ward.
(13) These genes do not appear to play a role in infection of weeping lovegrass because both parents and all progeny infect weeping lovegrass.
(14) Angry beyond belief, unable to control his weeping, he ran to the local governor's office to complain at this vicious injustice.
(15) If the football fans were like that, Emile Heskey would be an almost sacred figure and people would still be weeping about Peter Beardsley.
(16) He said she was weeping with shock but was not taken to hospital and instead was met by her boyfriend and taken to stay with her sister.
(17) Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.” It’s not a sentiment reflected in ACL press releases, less concerned with warning the rich than fighting the queers.
(18) But for the most part, when I watch these marches on snowy Polish streets, with the familiar cadences of their chants, and when I hear old Lech Wałęsa say that “patriots must unite” to get rid of PiS by unspecified “clever, attractive and peaceful” means, I laugh with one eye and weep with the other.
(19) Although this form of application is a special presentation for the treatment of very dry dermatoses, patients with not so dry and weeping dermatoses were also treated in this trial, the object being to include the role played by the vehicle in the results of therapy.
(20) Only a short bus ride from Princes Street, it combines peace and tranquillity, a burbling stream, and autumn colours to make New England weep.