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Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

The pin grass (Erodium cicutarium), a weed in California.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

The study or science of algæ or seaweeds.

Of or pertaining to the algæ, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed.

ind of fragrant plant; now (Bot.), a genus of plants, including some coarse and worthless weeds, called ragweed, hogweed, etc.

A fresh-water weed of the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharidaceæ), native to America. Transferred to England it became an obstruction to navigation. Called also waterweed and water thyme.

A species of bindweed.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.

A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

A large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

arts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.

To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.

idle upon; to equip with a bridle; as, to bridle a horse. He bridled her mouth with a silkweed twist. Drake.

so Fig. "The brink of vice." Bp. Porteus. "The brink of ruin." Burke. The plashy brink of weedy lake. Bryant.

-- Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket. -- Spanish broom. See under Spanish.

, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.