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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reed \Reed\ (r[=e]d), a. Red. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reed \Reed\, v. & n. Same as {Rede}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Reed \Reed\, n. The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}). 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) 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) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. 8. (Arch.) 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} (Zo["o]l.) 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}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Reed bunting}, above. {Reed stop} (Mus.), a set of pipes in an organ furnished with reeds. {Reed warbler}. (Zo["o]l.) 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: reed n 1: tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites 2: 1851-1902 [syn: {Reed}, {Walter Reed}] 3: a thin strip of stiff material that is fitted into the mouthpiece of woodwind instruments and that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it 4: a musical instrument that sounds by means of a reed [syn: {beating-reed instrument}] From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: 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 From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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}.)
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