Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) Someone who reefs sails, especially a midshipman.

*1922 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Oxford 2002 (Selected Stories ), p. 85:

*:Her reefer cap was all on one side and on her cheek there was the print of an anchor button she had pressed on while sleeping.

A reefer jacket; a close-fitting jacket or short coat of thick cloth.

Noun

(en noun)

A refrigerated, insulated trailer or shipping container.

Noun

(en noun)

(slang) A marijuana cigarette.

(slang, uncountable) marijuana.

*1982 , (Grandmaster Flash), :

*:Daddy I don't want to go to school because the teacher's a jerk, he must think I'm a fool and all the kids smoke reefer , I think it'd be cheaper if I just got a job learned to be a street sweeper.

Noun

(en noun)

A plant.

# (label) 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.

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, title= The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds . Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}

# (label) A species of plant considered harmful to the environment or regarded as a nuisance.

# Short for duckweed.

# Underbrush; low shrubs.

#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

one rushing forth out of the thickest weed

#* (1809-1892)

A wild and wanton pard/ Crouched fawning in the weed .

A drug or the like made from the leaves of a plant.

# Marijuana.

# Tobacco.

# A cigar.

A horse unfit to breed from.

A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.

A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.

Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.

Noun

(en noun)

(archaic) A garment or piece of clothing.

(archaic) Clothing collectively; clothes, dress.

* 1599 ,

DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds ;

And then to Leonato's we will go.

CLAUDIO. And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's,

Than this for whom we rend'red up this woe!

* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

These two dignified persons were followed by their respective attendants, and at a more humble distance by their guide, whose figure had nothing more remarkable than it derived from the usual weeds of a pilgrim.

(archaic) An article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge.

He wore a weed on his hat.

(archaic) widow's weeds : female mourning apparel

* Milton

In a mourning weed , with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.