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A weedling. Evelyn.

WEEDLESS
Free from weeds or noxious matter.
TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE
Two things practically alike; -- a phrase coined by John Byrom in his satire "On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini."
TWEEDLE
1. To handle lightly; -- said with reference to awkward fiddling; hence, to influence as if by fiddling; to coax; to allure. A fiddler brought in with him a body of lusty young fellows, whom he had tweedled into the service. Addison. 2. To twist.