Reed is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REED in dictionary:

VERB:
• to fasten or thatch with reed
• To clean (grain, pulses, etc.) using a sieve, especially by sifting in a circular motion so that the chaff, etc. collects in the centre. Compare ree. Also without object: to sieve in this way.
• Same as Rede.
NOUN:
• a tall stiff hard-culmed marsh or water grass of various kinds
• Rare earth element(s).
• tall grass that grows in swamps and shallow water
• The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
• 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).
• A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
• An arrow, as made of a reed.
• Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
• Same as Reeding.
• tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites
• 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)
• United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)
• a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it
• a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed
INTERJECTION:
• Used as a command to a horse to turn to the right. Also as noun: this command; an utterance of this.
ADJECTIVE:
• Scottish and Irish English (northern). Of a person: mad, frenzied, crazed. Of a horse: frisky, restive, difficult to control.
• Red.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten with reeds (the stalks of tall grasses)

Words related to REED

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Words that contain REED

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How to use REED in a sentence

• For years, almost since it opened in 1908, Miss Reed of the Michaelis Free Kindergarten has taken her children to the country.
• And he that talked with me, had a golden reed to measure the city withall and the gates thereof and the wall thereof.
• A small description of Spanish reed was here first observed to grow on the margin of the pools.
• But a man under the power of such terrors as now occupied me catches at every reed.
• It is true that agreements may be so managed as to prove a very weak reed for the workers to depend on in time of trouble.
• REED, It is gratifying to learn that through your means Mr.
• Below the reed are cut small holes in the pipes, and there is a pipe with a mouthpiece to keep the gourd, which is practically an air reservoir, full of air.
• With the reed instruments the change in modern times is more striking.
• The original form of the reed instruments was of the double-reed variety.
• This courage and spiritual vitality made one hope that he would, if he desired it, live as long as Voltaire, that reed among oaks.
• His staff was but a reed on which, if he leant, it pierced his hand.
• Thus, the individual should be as a reed, through which the Holy Spirit may flow, to give new life to the seeking soul.
• I knew Reed by sight only, my middle brother having made several trips with his trail cattle, but he was known to every one by reputation.
• But the wind would not blow and the contents of the reed fell to the ground.
• Among the number were Reed, McKinley, Cannon, and Keifer.
• The female reed from the west was planted on the western side near the top, the male reed from the east on the eastern slope, and both at once began to shoot upward rapidly.
• Then the shorter piece of reed was artificially hollowed to fit on the longer piece.
• The rewards held out to the successful candidates were, in the true monastic spirit of the guild, a reed, a crown of thorns, a sponge, or some other mystic or devotional emblem.
• The driver was old Bill Reed, an overland-stage driver, and our wagon-master.
• Reed, the American minister, I enjoyed the best of opportunities for observing what went on behind the scenes, besides being a spectator of more than one battle.
• JUVENILE BOOKS PUBLISHED BY TICKNOR, REED, AND FIELDS.
• In late times a very much thicker reed was used, and then the end was cut like a quill or steel pen.
• The old bear began to shake that tree until it rocked like a reed in a gale, and I had all I could do to hold on with arms and legs.

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