1601 E. Nisbet Cæsars Dialogve 31 In a weeded Garden, there will spring vp new weedes.

1766 Speech against Suspending & Dispensing Prerogative in Parl. Hist. (1813) XVI. 310 It was the rump of a well weeded parliament that abolished the monarchy.

1779 J. Wise Nadir iv. 95 My realms wou'd be a well-fenced weeded garden, Where ills wou'd either lurk or keep aloof.

1868 H. Greeley Recoll. Busy Life xxxii. 269 Another exhibition,..so planned, so weeded, as to embody only articles of decided merit.

1895 Library Jrnl. Nov. 375/1 A small, well-selected, thoroughly weeded collection to be used for reference only.

1939 O. P. Palmer & W. Fernand tr. T. Manteuffel in Amer. Archivist 2 209 In the War Ministry the files are weeded before they are transferred to the archives, and the destruction of the weeded material depends on the consent of the archival authorities.

1979 G. F. Zaide Pageant Philippine Hist. II. xxviii. 577 On January 7, 1976, the President, righting the wrong done to the innocent ones, cleared 425 of the weeded officials and reinstated 302.

2015 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 24 May (Final ed.) a1 Drive through this working-class suburb filled with 1950s cottages and you will see many edged and weeded lawns.

1831 T. MacQueen My Gloaming Amusem. 65 O! white, white was his weedit hair.

1889 F. M. Halford Dry-fly Fishing ix. 224 When a fish is once weeded, the following tactics are what I suggest.

1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 501/1 It is a good maxim to have maximum patience with a weeded fish.

1960 Times 2 July 11/2 More good trout have been lost in attempts to prevent them reaching weedbeds than have been lost in efforts to get them out once they have become weeded.

1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 147/2 But then with waders on you can always physically extract a heavily weeded fish at the risk of scaring others in the shoal.

1832 R. Chambers & W. Chambers Gazetteer Scotl. I. 431/1 There has been going on a process of..reducing the population to nothing beyond a body of individuals actually employed in furthering agricultural operations... The adjacent large towns have, of course, received the weeded-out population.

1881 Freeman's Jrnl. (Sydney) 15 Jan. 10/3 The coops being delivered in Sydney just now are not up to much, the birds being chiefly squeakers and weeded-out lots.

1908 Amer. Agriculturalist 3 Oct. 12/2 Just now, while price for breeding stock is not high, the price for disposing of weeded-out stock is good, thus enabling the stock man, regardless of his line, to replace his indifferent individuals.

1957 Libri 7 138 The inference is transfer of the power of disposal of weeded-out volumes, from individual libraries to the central library of the national library system.

1979 G. F. Zaide Pageant Philippine Hist. II. xxviii. 577 The Manila newspapers published the names of the weeded out officials.

2014 J. E. Côté Youth Stud. iv. 84 The weeded out students are then..pressured to blame themselves for not ‘making it’.

1611 T. Dale Let. 25 May in A. Brown Genesis U.S. (1890) I. 493 I found it [sc. ground to sowe corn] too much rough weeded and over-growne with shrubbs and bushes.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iii. 114 Upon a weeded rock this old man sat.

1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 785 [It] sent up only weeded, raggy, and mixed crops.

1871 P. Bayne Life & Lett. Hugh Miller I. i. ii. 26 Hunting for lump-fish in the weeded pools.

1963 G. P. R. Balfour-Kinnear More about Trout & Salmon ii. 7 In a weeded river an eel can squirm slowly, quietly and unseen up to a little trout, or a salmon parr.

1994 M. Martin Riverbend ii. 33 She made herself walk briskly along the weeded path and up the brick steps.

2015 Prince George (Brit. Columbia) Citizen (Nexis) 27 May (Final ed.) a1 Now we're going to have an overgrown, weeded field sitting there for somebody else to try and do something with.

1788 P. Thicknesse Mem. & Anecd. II. 231 A weeded widow leaning over a hatch.

1825 Herald of Peace Oct. 200/1 They themselves beheld the orphan, and the deep-weeded widow.

1895 T. Hardy Jude v. vii. 390 Having ascertained thus much the immensely weeded widow retraced her steps.

1904 H. V. Sutherland Songs of City 71 A maiden sighs and a baby cries, And one old fellow sleeps; A youth in love just gnaws his glove, A weeded woman weeps.

1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF i. 18 An untrustworthy young man in black spoke to the frail weeded widow.

2011 J. Dahlgren Sagaria iii. i. 384 A black-weeded widow mourning her spouse.