REED

reed, vibrating reed

(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”

Reed, Walter Reed

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

Reed, John Reed

(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)

reed

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

reed (countable and uncountable, plural reeds)

(countable) Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water.

(countable) The hollow stem of these plants.

(countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.

(countable, music) A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed.

(countable, weaving) A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving.

(countable, historical) A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress.

(uncountable, architecture) Reeding.

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

Straw prepared for thatching a roof.

(poetic, obsolete) A missile weapon.

(archaic, metrology) A measuring rod.

A Babylonian unit of measure the length of a reed, equal to half a nindan, or six cubits.

Etymology 2

Verb

reed (third-person singular simple present reeds, present participle reeding, simple past and past participle reeded)

(transitive) To thatch.

To mill or mint with reeding.

Etymology 3

Verb

reed

simple past tense and past participle of ree

Etymology 4

Noun

reed (plural reeds)

(UK, Scotland, dialect) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.

Anagrams

• Rede, de re, deer, dere, dree, rede

Proper noun

Reed

A surname, a spelling variant of Reid.

A unisex given name from surnames.

A village in Hertfordshire, England.

Anagrams

• Rede, de re, deer, dere, dree, rede

Source: Wiktionary

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Reed (rd), a.

Definition: Red. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reed, v. & n.

Definition: Same as Rede. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reed, n.

Definition: The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

Reed, n. Etym: [AS. hre; akin to D. riet, G. riet, ried, OHG. kriot, riot.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: 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).

2. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes. Milton.

3. An arrow, as made of a reed. Prior.

4. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [Prov. Eng.]

5. (Mus.) (a) 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. (b) 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.

6. (Weaving)

Definition: 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.

7. (Mining)

Definition: A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

8. (Arch.)

Definition: Same as Reeding. Egyptian reed (Bot.), the papyrus.

– Free reed (Mus.), a reed whose edges do not overlap the wind passage, -- used in the harmonium, concertina, etc. It is distinguished from the beating or striking reed of the organ and clarinet.

– Meadow reed grass (Bot.), the Glyceria aquatica, a tall grass found in wet places.

– Reed babbler. See Reedbird.

– Reed bunting (Zoöl.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schoeniclus) which frequents marshy places; -- called also reed sparrow, ring bunting. (b) Reedling.

– Reed canary grass (Bot.), a tall wild grass (Phalaris arundinacea).

– Reed grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, 1. (b) A plant of the genus Sparganium; bur reed. See under Bur.

– Reed organ (Mus.), an organ in which the wind acts on a set of free reeds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc.

– Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed.

– Reed sparrow. (Zoöl.) See Reed bunting, above.

– Reed stop (Mus.), a set of pipes in an organ furnished with reeds.

– Reed warbler. (Zoöl.) (a) A small European warbler (Acrocephalus streperus); -- called also reed wren. (b) Any one of several species of Indian and Australian warblers of the genera Acrocephalus, Calamoherpe, and Arundinax. They are excellent singers.

– Sea-sand reed (Bot.), a kind of coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.

– Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall, elegant grass (Cinna arundinacea), common in moist woods.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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