Meaning

noun weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

noun weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

noun someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

originVerb from Middle English achetan, variant of escheten, from Old French escheat, past participle of escheoir, escheoiter, from Late Latin *excadēre (“fall away, fall out”), from (Latin) ex- + cadere (“fall”). Displaced native Old English beswīcan. Noun from verb and/or Middle English chete, aphetic form of achete, escheat, eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Anglo-Norman…

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