outweed

English

Etymology

out- +‎ weed

Verb

outweed (third-person singular simple present outweeds, present participle outweeding, simple past and past participle outweeded)

1. (obsolete) To weed out.
   • 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:

     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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• weed out