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outweed en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + weed.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To weed out.
   • But ſparks, ſeed, drops, and filth, do thus delay; The ſparks ſoone quench, the ſpringing ſeed outweed, The drops dry up, and filth wipe cleane away 1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”, in The Works of Edmund Spenser, volume 3, London: printed for F. C. and J. Rivington, T. Payne, Cadell and Davies, and R. H. Evans, published 1805, →OCLC, Canto IV, page 345:

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