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noun - A stick or staff, used to perform a useful function.
- A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
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noun
- (countable) 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.
- If it isn't in a straight line or marked with a label, it's a .
- (context, uncountable, slang) marijuana, Marijuana.
- (context, obsolete, uncountable) tobacco, Tobacco.
- (context, obsolete, countable) A cigar.
- (context, obsolete, countable) A horse unfit to breed from.
- (context, countable, UK, informal) A puny person; one who has with little physical strength.
- (rfv-sense) (countable) A sudden illness or relapse, often attended with fever, which attacks women in childbed.
- (rfv-sense) (uncountable) Underbrush; low shrubs.
- (rfv-sense, figuratively, or something?) (context, countable, figuratively) Something unprofitable or troublesome; anything useless.
(rfc, needs a rewrite)
verb
- To remove weeds (unwanted vegetation) from (a cultivated area).
- I weeded my flower bed.
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adjective (weed, ier)
- Small and weak
- (botany) Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
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noun
- A pattern of concentric circles.
- (botany) A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
- (zoology) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
- (archaic) A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle, cf. 1460.
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adjective
- formed from whorls; having whorls
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noun - A plant that has escaped from cultivation and now grows wild, especially an apple
verb
- (present participle of, wild)
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adjective
- (context, of a tree) growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds
- (of seeds, leaves etc) dispersed by the wind
- (context, of a person) having disheveled hair blown about by the wind
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noun - A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth
- A spool around which something is wound
- A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
- One of the steps of a spiral staircase
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noun
- Traditionally the fourth of the four seasons, typically regarded as being from December 21 to March 20 in Northern Hemisphere regions and from June 21 to September 20 in Southern Hemisphere regions. Usually marked by the applicable hemisphere of the planet being at its minimum angle of exposure to the Sun, resulting in short days and typically the time period with the lowest atmospheric temperatures for the region.
verb
- (intransitive) To spend the winter (in a particular place).
- ''When they retired, they hoped to in Florida.
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proper noun
- Nickname for Woodrow
- Given name for a male
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adjective (woolli, er)
- Made of wool.
- Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
- hair
- (figurative) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
- That's the sort of thinking that causes wars to start.
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