1. a garment; clothing; especially, an upper or outer garment. "low&?;ly shepherd's weeds." "woman's weeds." "this beggar woman's weed." he on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore put off.
2. an article of dress worn in token of grief; a mourning garment or badge; as, he wore a weed on his hat; especially, in the plural, mourning garb, as of a woman; as, a widow's weeds. in a mourning weed, with ashes upon her head, and tears abundantly flowing.