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▪ I. weeded, (ppl.) a.1|ˈwiːdɪd|
[f. weed n.1 and v.1 + -ed.]
1. Covered with weeds. Of a crop: Abounding in or choked with weeds; weedy.
1818Keats Endym. iii. 193 Upon a weeded rock this old man sat. 1822Blackw. Mag. XII. 785 [It] sent up only weeded, raggy, and mixed crops. 1830Tennyson Mariana i, Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.
2. Freed from weeds. Also fig.
1766Sp. agst. Suspending & Dispensing Prerogative in Parl. Hist. (1813) XVI. 310 It was the rump of a well weeded parliament that abolished the monarchy. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. i. 5 The fields are covered with fine well-weeded turf.
3. Of a crop: Thinned out; sparse.
1831T. MacQueen Gloaming Amusem. 65, O! white, white was his weedit hair.
▪ II. weeded, a.2 arch.|ˈwiːdɪd|
[f. weed n.2 + -ed2.]
Dressed in widow's weeds.
1895Hardy Jude v. vii. 369 Having ascertained thus much the immensely weeded widow retraced her steps. 1971‘A. Burgess’ MF i. 18 An untrustworthy young man in black spoke to the frail weeded widow. |