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1577, (w) (translator), ''The Foure Bookes of Husbandry, collected by M. (w)'', London: Richard Watkins, Book 1, p. 27,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A03069.0001.001

Wheate delighteth in a leuell, riche, warme, and a drye ground: a shaddowy, weedy, and a hilly ground, it loueth not (..)

{{quote-book|en|year=1871|author=William Cullen Bryant|chapter=The Path|title=Poems|location=New York|publisher=Appleton|page=354|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008395019
Of, relating to or resembling weeds.

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{{quote-book|en|year=1894|author=Catharine Parr Traill|title=Pearls and Pebbles|location=London|publisher=Sampson Low, Marston|chapter=Our Native Grasses|page=214|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20081015/html.php
{{quote-text|en|year=1925|author=Aldous Huxley|title=Those Barren Leaves|section=Part 2, Chapter 5|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20160510/html.php
{{quote-text|en|year=1940|author=Raymond Chandler|title=Farewell, My Lovely|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120626/html.php|chapter=5
Consisting of weeds.
(RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)
{{quote-book|en|year=1854|author=Henry David Thoreau|title=Walden|location=Boston|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|chapter=The Bean-Field|page=175|url=https://archive.org/details/waldenorlifei00thor
1917, (w), “Flood” in ''(w)'', Volume 10, April-September, 1917, p. 73,https://archive.org/details/poetrymag10monruoft

A waste of waters ruthlessly

Sways and uplifts its weedy mane,

Where brooding day stares down upon the sea

In dull disdain.

Characteristic of a plant that grows rapidly and spreads invasively, and which grows opportunistically in cracks of sidewalks and disturbed areas.
{{quote-text|en|year=1614|author=Gervase Markham|title=The Second Booke of the English Husbandman|location=London|publisher=John Browne|section=Part 2, Chapter 7, pp. 84-85|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06927.0001.001
Small and weak.
(RQ:Gaskell Wives and Daughters)
1924, (w), ''The Spark'' (The Sixties), Chapter 2, in ''(w)'', New York: 1981, p. 146,https://archive.org/details/oldnewyork00whar

Byrne was hurling himself across the field, crouched on the neck of his somewhat weedy mount (..)

{{quote-text|en|year=1929|author=Dashiell Hammett|title=Red Harvest|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20170231/html.php|chapter=2
Lacking power or effectiveness.
(quote-journal)|date=22 June 2010|titleurl=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/7847471/We-all-know-fast-food-is-bad-for-us.html
2016, (w), quoted in “Designs for life from Orla Kiely,” ''(w)'', 3 April, 2016,https://www.independent.ie/style/fashion/designs-for-life-from-orla-kiely-34584098.html

We wanted to make sure that our jewellery made a statement, that it wasn't wimpy or weedy.