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near leaves. (c) A composite plant, the blazing star (Liatris squarrosa). -- Rattlesnake weed (Bot.), a plant of the composite genus Hieracium (H. venosum); -- probably so named from its spotted leaves. See also Snakeroot.

A kind of milkweed (Asclepias Curassavica) with red flowers. It is used in medicine.

Sedge; seaweed. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Any seaweed with red spores.

o strip by stealing; to plunder; to pillage; to steal from. Who would rob a hermit of his weeds, His few books, or his beads, or maple dish Milton. He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. Shak. To be executed for robbing a church. Shak.

und on the seashore of Europe and America. -- Yellow rocket (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers (Barbarea vulgaris).

bs or herbs with yellow flowers, especially the European H. vulgare and the American frostweed, H. Canadense. Cretan rockrose, a related shrub (Cistus Creticus), one of the plants yielding the fragrant gum called ladanum.

e root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. In deep grounds the weeds root deeper. Mortimer.

species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckia hirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.

tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Bacon. Temperate climates run into moderate governments. Swift.

A weedling. [Obs.] Evelyn.

, a favorite food of swine. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Barnaby's thistle (Bot.), a kind of knapeweed (Centaurea solstitialis) flowering on St. Barnabas's Day, June 11th. Dr. Prior. -- Saint Bernard (Zoöl.), a breed of large, handsome dogs celebrated for strength and sagacity, formerly bred chiefly at the Hospice of St. Bern…

To weed, or clear of weeds, with a hoe. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.

The gulf weed. See under Gulf. Sargasso Sea, a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface.

A genus of algæ including the gulf weed.

A species of bindweed or Convolvulus (C. Scammonia).

Scratch cradle. See Cratch cradle, under Cratch. -- Scratch grass (Bot.), a climbing knotweed (Polygonum sagittatum) with a square stem beset with fine recurved prickles along the angles. -- Scratch wig. Same as Scratch, 4, above. Thackeray.

A large blackfish seaweed (Agarum Turneri), the frond of which is punctured with many little holes.

The gulf weed. See under Gulf.