Reed

[riːd] or [rid]

Definition

(noun.) a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it; 'the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece'.

(noun.) United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902).

(noun.) United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920).

(noun.) tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.

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Definition

(a.) Red.

(v. & n.) Same as Rede.

(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

(n.) A name given to many tall and coarse grasses or grasslike plants, and their slender, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).

(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.

(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.

(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

(n.) A small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube.

(n.) One of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordeon, harmonium, or seraphine; also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.

(n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten.

(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

(n.) Same as Reeding.

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Definition

v.t. and v.i. (Spens.) to deem.

n. the common English name of certain tall grasses growing in moist or marshy places and having a very hard or almost woody culm: a musical pipe anciently made of a reed: the sounding part of several musical instruments as the clarinet bassoon oboe and bagpipe: the speaking part of the organ though made of metal: the appliance in weaving for separating the threads of the warp and for beating the weft up to the web: a tube containing the powder-train leading to the blast-hole: a piece of whalebone &c. for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress: (poet.) a missile weapon: reeds or straw for thatch: a measuring reed.—v.t. to thatch.—ns. Reed′-band a musical band including clarinets and other reed-instruments; Reed′-bird the bobolink; Reed′-bunt′ing the black-headed bunting of Europe.—adjs. Reed′ed covered with reeds: formed with reed-like ridges or channels; Reed′en consisting of a reed or reeds.—ns. Reed′er a thatcher; Reed′-grass any one of the grasses called reeds; Reed′iness the state of being reedy; Reed′ing the milling on the edge of a coin: (archit.) ornamental beaded mouldings &c.; Reed′-in′strument a musical instrument the tone of which is produced by the vibration of a reed; Reed′-knife a metal implement for adjusting the tuning wires in a pipe-organ; Reed′ling the European bearded titmouse; Reed′-mace any plant of the genus Typha esp. either of two species also called Cat's tail the most common of which grows to a height of five or six feet and is sometimes called Bulrush; Reed′-mō′tion the mechanism which in power-looms moves the batten; Reed′-or′gan a key-board musical instrument of which the harmonium and the American organ are the principal types; Reed′-pheas′ant the bearded titmouse or reedling; Reed′-pipe in organ-building a pipe whose tone is produced by the vibration of a reed: Reed′-plane a concave-soled plane used in making beads; Reed′-stop a set of reed-pipes in organs the use of which is controlled by a single stop-knob; Reed′-war′bler a species of the warblers frequenting marshy places and building its nest on the reeds which grow there—also Reed′-thrush; Reed′-wren the greater reed-warbler: an American wren.—adj. Reed′y abounding with reeds: resembling or sounding as a reed—n. masses of rods of iron imperfectly welded together.

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