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reed·ing

   [ree-ding]
noun Architecture.
1.
a set of moldings, as on a column, resembling small convex fluting.
2.
ornamentation consisting of such moldings.
3.
a number of narrow, vertical grooves on the edge of a coin, medal, etc.
Origin:
1805–15; reed + -ing1

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reed

   [reed]
noun
1.
the straight stalk of any of various tall grasses, especially of the genera Phragmites and Arundo, growing in marshy places.
2.
any of the plants themselves.
3.
such stalks or plants collectively.
4.
anything made from such a stalk or from something similar, as an arrow.
5.
Music.
a.
a pastoral or rustic musical pipe made from a reed or from the hollow stalk of some other plant.
b.
a small, flexible piece of cane or metal that, attached to the mouth of any of various wind instruments, is set into vibration by a stream of air and, in turn, sets into vibration the air column enclosed in the tube of the instrument.
c.
reed instrument.
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6.
Textiles. the series of parallel strips of wires in a loom that force the weft up to the web and separate the threads of the warp.
7.
an ancient unit of length, equal to 6 cubits. Ezek. 40:5.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
8.
to decorate with reed.
9.
to thatch with or as if with reed.
10.
to make vertical grooves on (the edge of a coin, medal, etc.).
Idiom
11.
a broken reed, a person or thing too frail or weak to be relied on for support: Under stress he showed himself to be a broken reed.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English hrēod; cognate with German, Dutch riet

Related forms
reed·like, adjective
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reeding (ˈriːdɪŋ)
 
—n
1.  a set of small semicircular architectural mouldings
2.  the milling on the edges of a coin

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reed
O.E. hreod "reed," from P.Gmc. *khreudom (cf. O.S. hraid, O.Fris. hriad, M.Du. ried, O.H.G. hriot, Ger. riet), no known cognates beyond Gmc. As part of the mouthpiece of a musical instrument it is attested from 1530. A reedy voice (1811) is so called from resemblance to musical sound of a reed.
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Reed (rēd), Walter. 1851-1902.

American surgeon who led the commission that proved experimentally that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes.

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Reed   (rēd)  Pronunciation Key 
American physician and army surgeon who proved in 1900 that yellow fever was transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. His research led to the mosquito eradication programs carried out by William Gorgas that virtually eradicated yellow fever from Havana, Cuba, and from the Panama Canal Zone.
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reed definition


A thin piece of wood or plastic used in many woodwind instruments. It vibrates when the player holds it in the mouth and blows over it (as with a single reed) or through it (as with a double reed). Clarinets and saxophones use a single reed; bassoons and oboes use a double reed.

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