Reed \Reed\ (r[=e]d), a.
   Red. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	Reed \Reed\, v. & n.
   Same as Rede. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	Reed \Reed\, n.
   The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or
   Scot.]
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	Reed \Reed\, n. [AS. hre['o]d; akin to D. riet, G. riet, ried,
   OHG. kriot, riot.]
   1. (Bot.) 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).
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   2. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some
      plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
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            Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed
            Of Hermes.                            --Milton.
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   3. An arrow, as made of a reed. --Prior.
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   4. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [Prov. Eng.]
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   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.
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   6. (Weaving) 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.
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   7. (Mining) A tube containing the train of powder for
      igniting the charge in blasting.
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   8. (Arch.) Same as Reeding.
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   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 (Zool.) A European sparrow (Emberiza
      sch[oe]niclus) 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. (Zool.) See Reed bunting, above.

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

   Reed warbler. (Zool.)
      (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.
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	reed
     n 1: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems
          especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
     2: 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) [syn: John Reed]
     3: United States physician who proved that yellow fever is
        transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902) [syn: Walter Reed]
     4: 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" [syn: vibrating
        reed]
     5: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed [syn: beating-reed
        instrument]

	

	161 Moby Thesaurus words for "reed":
   English horn, Pandean pipe, adjutage, aerophone, aftergrass,
   anthrophore, arrow, arrowhead, aulos, axis, bamboo, barb,
   basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bell, bobtailed arrow, bole,
   bolt, bombard, cambric tea, cane, carpophore, catheter, caudex,
   caulicle, caulis, cereal, cereal plant, chested arrow, clarinet,
   cloth yard shaft, cobweb, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, corn,
   cromorne, culm, dart, dishwater, double bassoon, double reed,
   drainpipe, efflux tube, embouchure, farinaceous plant, fife,
   fipple flute, fire hose, flageolet, flight, flue pipe, flute, fog,
   footstalk, forage grass, funicule, funiculus, funnel, garden hose,
   gas pipe, gossamer, grain, graminaceous plant, grass, gruel, hair,
   haulm, hautboy, heckelphone, horn, hornpipe, hose, hosepipe,
   house of cards, key, lawn grass, leafstalk, licorice stick, lip,
   matchwood, milk and water, mouthpiece, musette, nipple, oaten reed,
   oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, organ pipe, ornamental grass,
   panpipe, pedicel, peduncle, penny-whistle, petiole, petiolule,
   petiolus, piccolo, pipe, pipeline, pipette, piping, pommer,
   quarrel, recorder, reed instrument, reed pipe, rope of sand,
   sand castle, sax, saxophone, seedstalk, shaft, shawm, siamese,
   siamese connection, single reed, single-reed instrument, siphon,
   slide, snorkel, soil pipe, sonorophone, spear, spire, stalk,
   standpipe, steam pipe, stem, stipe, stock, straw, sweet potato,
   syrinx, tabor pipe, tap, tenoroon, thread, tigella, tin-whistle,
   tooter, trunk, tube, tubing, tubulation, tubule, tubulet, tubulure,
   valve, volley, waste pipe, water, water pipe, whistle, wind,
   wind instrument, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir,
   woodwind instrument

	

	Reed
   (1.) "Paper reeds" (Isa. 19:7; R.V., "reeds"). Heb. 'aroth,
   properly green herbage growing in marshy places.
   
     (2.) Heb. kaneh (1 Kings 14:15; Job 40:21; Isa. 19:6), whence
   the Gr. kanna, a "cane," a generic name for a reed of any kind.
   
     The reed of Egypt and Palestine is the Arundo donax, which
   grows to the height of 12 feet, its stalk jointed like the
   bamboo, "with a magnificent panicle of blossom at the top, and
   so slender and yielding that it will lie perfectly flat under a
   gust of wind, and immediately resume its upright position." It
   is used to illustrate weakness (2 Kings 18:21; Ezek. 29:6), also
   fickleness or instability (Matt. 11:7; comp. Eph. 4:14).
   
     A "bruised reed" (Isa. 42:3; Matt. 12:20) is an emblem of a
   believer weak in grace. A reed was put into our Lord's hands in
   derision (Matt. 27:29); and "they took the reed and smote him on
   the head" (30). The "reed" on which they put the sponge filled
   with vinegar (Matt. 27:48) was, according to John (19:29), a
   hyssop stalk, which must have been of some length, or perhaps a
   bunch of hyssop twigs fastened to a rod with the sponge. (See CANE.)

	

	Reed, AR (town, FIPS 58880)
  Location: 33.70182 N, 91.44373 W
  Population (1990): 355 (118 housing units)
  Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 71670
Reed, KY
  Zip code(s): 42451
Reed, OK
  Zip code(s): 73554

	

	Reed, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
   Population (2000):    275
   Housing Units (2000): 103
   Land area (2000):     0.103055 sq. miles (0.266910 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.103055 sq. miles (0.266910 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            58880
   Located within:       Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
   Location:             33.701930 N, 91.443851 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     71670
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
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