A little wee face, with a little yellow beard.
Shak.
Weech"-elm` (?), n. (Bot.) The wych-elm. [Obs.] Bacon.
Weed (?), n. [OE. wede, AS. w&?;de, w&?;d; akin to OS. wdi, giwdi,
OFries, w&?;de, w&?;d, OD. wade, OHG. wt, Icel. v&?;, Zend vadh to
clothe.]
1. A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
"Low&?;ly shepherd's weeds." Spenser. "Woman's weeds." Shak. "This
beggar woman's weed." Tennyson.
He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off.
Chapman.
2. 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.
In a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly
flowing.
Milton.
Weed, n. A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which
attacks women in childbed. [Scot.]
Weed, n. [OE. weed, weod, AS. weód, wiód, akin to OS. wiod, LG. woden
the stalks and leaves of vegetables D. wieden to weed, OS. wiodn.]