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Weed One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.Spenser. A wild and wanton pard . . .Tennyson. Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.Denham. 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. Weed 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. He weeded the kingdom of such as were devoted to Elaiana.Howell. |
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