Weed
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) Fig.: Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(2): ( n.) Tobacco, or a cigar.
(3): ( v. t.) To reject as unfit for breeding purposes.
(4): ( v. t.) To free from anything hurtful or offensive.
(5): ( v. t.) To take away, as noxious plants; to remove, as something hurtful; to extirpate.
(6): ( v. t.) To free from noxious plants; to clear of weeds; as, to weed corn or onions; to weed a garden.
(7): ( n.) A garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment.
(8): ( n.) An animal unfit to breed from.
(9): ( 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.
(10): ( n.) Underbrush; low shrubs.
(11): ( n.) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
(12): ( 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.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
( סוּ , Suph, Jonah 2:6; elsewhere rendered "flag," Exodus 2:3; Isaiah 19:6, but usually as an epithet of the Red Sea, lit. the Weed-Sea; Sept. Φῦκος ; Lat. Alga, see Pliny, 31:46,4; 9:25), the Sea-Weed (Fucus Natans of Linn.; Fucus Marinus, Pliny, 26:66 and 79), a sort of sea-grass with lanciform, serrated leaves, and threadlike knotted stalks, which grows in great abundance on the shores of the Mediterranean ( Jonah 2:6; see Hirtius, Bell. Afric. 24), but especially of the Hellespont (Ovid, Heroid. 18:108; Belon, Observ. 2:3), as likewise of the Red Sea (comp. Strabo, 16:773; Diod. Sic. 3:19, Μνίον ), the last taking its name ( יִם סוּ ) from that circumstance. (See Red Sea). The plant is described by Acosta (in Clusii Exoticor. Libb. [Antw. 1605], page 293), Delile (Flora Aegypt. in Descr. De I'Egypte, 19: 113), Bochart (Phaleg, 4:29), Celsius (Hierobot. 2:67 sq.). There are several varieties (see Pliny, 27:25; 32:22; Galen, Med. Sinpl. vin.l 21, 9), of which it is uncertain which is the Egyptian species (Pliny, 13:44; Theophr. Plant. 4:9: see Gesenius, Thesaur. page 944). (See Flag). Noxious weeds in general seem to be denoted by the phrase "thorns and thistles" ( Genesis 3:18). (See Thorn).
