weeds
Pronunciation
  • (British, America) IPA: /wiːdz/
Noun
  1. plural form of weed
Verb
  1. third-person singular form of weed
Noun
  1. (obsolete) Clothes.
    • 1600, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, v 3
      Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book III:
    • 1886, Aeschylus, Choephori, translated by Anna Swanwick, lines 10–12
      What sight is this? What company of women
      Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds
      Conspicuous?



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