Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. 2. (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. 3. (n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed. 4. (n.) Underbrush; low shrubs. 5. (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. 6. (n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless. 7. (n.) An animal unfit to breed from. 8. (n.) Tobacco, or a cigar. 9. (v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden. 10. (v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate. 11. (v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive. 12. (v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.

Multi-Version Concordance Weed (3 Occurrences) Matthew 13:41 The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity, (See NIV) Job 31:40 let briars grow instead of wheat, and stinkweed instead of barley." The words of Job are ended. (Root in WEB JPS YLT NAS RSV NIV) Jonah 2:5 The waters surrounded me, even to the soul. The deep was around me. The weeds were wrapped around my head. (Root in WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)