Definition of "tares" [tares]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tare. (verb)
• Plural form of tare. (noun)

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• "The enemy that sowed the tares is the devil; a sworn enemy to"
• "By "tares" is meant, not what in our husbandry is so called, but some noxious plant, probably darnel."
• "He also told them a story called "The Wheat and the Tares," of a man who sowed good seed in a field, but when it sprung up and bore grain there were weeds growing among it called tares, for an enemy had sowed the seed at night and it had grown up with the wheat."