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tweed
(encz) | tweed,tvíd n: Zdeněk Brož |
Tweed
(gcide) | Tweed \Tweed\, n. [Probably a corruption of twills. See
Twill.]
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.
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tweed
(wn) | tweed
n 1: thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in
Scotland
2: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine
or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine,
tweed, white] |
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carpetweed
(encz) | carpetweed, n: |
carpetweed family
(encz) | carpetweed family, n: |
frostweed
(encz) | frostweed, n: |
harris tweed
(encz) | Harris Tweed, |
nitweed
(encz) | nitweed, n: |
rabbitweed
(encz) | rabbitweed,Gutierrezia sarothrae n: Michal Ambrož |
tweed
(encz) | tweed,tvíd n: Zdeněk Brož |
tweediness
(encz) | tweediness, n: |
tweedle
(encz) | tweedle, v: |
tweedy
(encz) | tweedy,tvídový adj: Zdeněk Brož |
velvetweed
(encz) | velvetweed, n: |
wartweed
(encz) | wartweed, n: |
Clotweed
(gcide) | Clotweed \Clot"weed`\, n. [See Clote.]
Cocklebur.
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Driftweed
(gcide) | Driftweed \Drift"weed`\, n.
Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. --Darwin.
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Fitweed
(gcide) | Fitweed \Fit"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant (Eryngium f[oe]tidum) supposed to be a remedy for
fits.
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Frostweed
(gcide) | Frostweed \Frost"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
An American species of rockrose (Helianthemum Canadense),
sometimes used in medicine as an astringent or aromatic
tonic.
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Note: It has large yellow flowers which are often sterile,
and later it has abundant but inconspicuous flowers
which bear seed. It is so called because, late in
autumn, crystals of ice shoot from the cracked bark at
the root; -- called also frostwort.
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Goutweed
(gcide) | Goutweed \Gout"weed`\, Goutwort \Gout"wort`\n. [So called from
having been formerly used in assuaging the pain of the gout.]
(Bot.)
A coarse umbelliferous plant of Europe ({Aegopodium
Podagraria}); -- called also bishop's weed, ashweed, and
herb gerard.
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Jointweed
(gcide) | Jointweed \Joint"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb ({Polygonum
articulatum}), with jointed spikes of small flowers.
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Knotweed
(gcide) | Knotweed \Knot"weed`\ (n[o^]t"w[=e]d`), n. (Bot.)
See Knotgrass.
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Matweed
(gcide) | Matweed \Mat"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
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Outweed
(gcide) | Outweed \Out*weed"\, v. t.
To weed out. [Obs.]
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Smartweed
(gcide) | Smartweed \Smart"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum ({Polygonum
Hydropiper}), which produces smarting if applied where the
skin is tender.
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Sweetweed
(gcide) | Sweetweed \Sweet"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
A name for two tropical American weeds (Capraria biflora,
and Scoparia dulcis) of the Figwort family.
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Trumpetweed
(gcide) | Trumpetweed \Trump"et*weed`\, n. (Bot.)
(a) An herbaceous composite plant (Eupatorium purpureum),
often having hollow stems, and bearing purplish flowers
in small corymbed heads.
(b) The sea trumpet.
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Tweedle
(gcide) | Tweedle \Twee"dle\, v. t. [Cf. Twiddle.] [Written also
twidle.]
1. To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward
fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax;
to allure.
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A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young
fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service.
--Addison.
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2. To twist. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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Tweedledum and Tweedledee
(gcide) | Tweedledum and Tweedledee \Twee"dle*dum` and Twee"dle*dee`\
Two things practically alike; -- a phrase coined by John
Byrom (1692-1793) in his satire "On the Feuds between Handel
and Bononcini."
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Tweedside burr
(gcide) | Burr \Burr\ (b[^u]r), n. [See Bur.] (Bot.)
1. A prickly seed vessel. See Bur, 1.
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2. The thin edge or ridge left by a tool in cutting or
shaping metal, as in turning, engraving, pressing, etc.;
also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting.
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The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the
copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs.
--Tomlinson.
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3. A thin flat piece of metal, formed from a sheet by
punching; a small washer put on the end of a rivet before
it is swaged down.
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4. A broad iron ring on a tilting lance just below the gripe,
to prevent the hand from slipping.
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5. The lobe or lap of the ear.
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6. [Probably of imitative origin.] A guttural pronounciation
of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the
soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism;
-- often called the Newcastle burr, {Northumberland
burr}, or Tweedside burr.
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7. The knot at the bottom of an antler. See Bur, n., 8.
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Wartweed
(gcide) | Wartweed \Wart"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
Same as Wartwort.
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carpetweed
(wn) | carpetweed
n 1: annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and
small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North
America [syn: carpetweed, Indian chickweed, {Molluga
verticillata}] |
carpetweed family
(wn) | carpetweed family
n 1: succulent herbs or small shrubs mostly of South Africa but
also New Zealand and North America: carpetweeds; fig
marigolds [syn: Aizoaceae, family Aizoaceae,
Tetragoniaceae, family Tetragoniaceae, {carpetweed
family}] |
frostweed
(wn) | frostweed
n 1: perennial of the eastern United States having early
solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers;
so-called because ice crystals form on it during first
frosts [syn: frostweed, frost-weed, frostwort,
Helianthemum canadense, Crocanthemum canadense]
2: tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers; the
eastern United States [syn: Virginia crownbeard,
frostweed, frost-weed, Verbesina virginica] |
harris tweed
(wn) | Harris Tweed
n 1: a loosely woven tweed made in the Outer Hebrides |
nitweed
(wn) | nitweed
n 1: annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute
scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers [syn: {orange
grass}, nitweed, pineweed, pine-weed, {Hypericum
gentianoides}] |
rabbitweed
(wn) | rabbitweed
n 1: low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States
having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and
hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: rabbitweed,
rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, {broom
snakeroot}, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae] |
tweed
(wn) | tweed
n 1: thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in
Scotland
2: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine
or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine,
tweed, white] |
tweediness
(wn) | tweediness
n 1: looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) [syn:
coarseness, nubbiness, tweediness]
2: an informal, homely, outdoor look characteristic of those who
wear tweeds |
tweedle
(wn) | tweedle
v 1: sing in modulation [syn: tweedle, chirp]
2: play negligently on a musical instrument
3: entice through the use of music |
tweedledee and tweedledum
(wn) | Tweedledee and Tweedledum
n 1: any two people who are hard to tell apart [syn: {Tweedledum
and Tweedledee}, Tweedledee and Tweedledum] |
tweedledum and tweedledee
(wn) | Tweedledum and Tweedledee
n 1: any two people who are hard to tell apart [syn: {Tweedledum
and Tweedledee}, Tweedledee and Tweedledum] |
tweedy
(wn) | tweedy
adj 1: of textiles; having a rough surface; "a sweater knitted
of nubbly homespun yarns" [syn: homespun(p), nubby,
nubbly, slubbed, tweedy]
2: (of country gentry) informal, clannish and outdoorsy |
velvetweed
(wn) | velvetweed
n 1: tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having
velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong
fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States
[syn: velvetleaf, velvet-leaf, velvetweed, {Indian
mallow}, butter-print, China jute, {Abutilon
theophrasti}] |
wartweed
(wn) | wartweed
n 1: not unattractive European weed whose flowers turn toward
the sun [syn: sun spurge, wartweed, wartwort,
devil's milk, Euphorbia helioscopia] |
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