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A soft and flexible fabric for men's wear, made wholly of wool except in some inferior kinds, the wool being dyed, usually in two colors, before weaving.

coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison.

Two things practically alike; -- a phrase coined by John Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini."

Cocklebur.

Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.

A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.

An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense), sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic tonic.

A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe (Ægopodium Podagraria); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and herb gerard.

A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.

See Knot.

A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.

To weed out. [Obs.]

An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum (P. Hydropiper), which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.

A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora, and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.

An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum), often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers in small corymbed heads.

Same as Wartwort.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

Goutweed.

Goutweed (Ægopodium podagraria).

the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr.