weeds

Etymology 1

Inflected form of weed.

noun

  1. plural of weed

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of weed

Etymology 2

From Old English wǣd, wǣde, from Proto-Germanic *wēdiz (“piece of cloth, garment”).

noun

  1. (obsolete) Clothes.
    What sight is this? What company of women Is wending hitherward, in sable weeds Conspicuous? 1886, Aeschylus, Choephori, translated by Anna Swanwick, lines 10–12

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