Defn: Dressed in weeds, or mourning garments. [R. or Colloq.]
She was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning. Dickens.
WEEK Week, n. Etym: [OE. weke, wike, woke, wuke AS. weocu, wicu, wucu; akin to OS. wika, OFries. wike, D. week, G. woche, OHG. wohha, wehha, Icel. vika, Sw. vecka, Dan. uge, Goth. wik, probably originally meaning, a succession or change, and akin to G. wechsel change, L. vicis turn, alternation, and E. weak. Cf. Weak.]
Defn: A period of seven days, usually that reckoned from one Sabbath
or Sunday to the next.
I fast twice in the week. Luke xviii. 12.
Note: Although it [the week] did not enter into the calendar of the
Greeks, and was not introduced at Rome till after the reign of
Theodesius, it has been employed from time immemorial in almost all
Eastern countries. Encyc. Brit. Feast of Weeks. See Pentecost, 1.
— Prophetic week, a week of years, or seven years. Dan. ix. 24.
— Week day. See under Day.
WEEK-END
Week"-end", n.
Defn: The end of the week; specif., though loosely, the period observed commonly as a holiday, from Saturday noon or Friday night to Monday; as, to visit one for a week-end; also, a house party during a week-end.
WEEKLY
Week"ly, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a week, or week days; as, weekly labor.
2. Coming, happening, or done once a week; hebdomadary; as, a weekly payment; a weekly gazette.
WEEKLY
Week"ly, n.; pl. Weeklies (.