Definition of reed

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Reed (n.) 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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Hoggery :: Hoggery (n.) Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness.
Maccabees :: Maccabees (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel..
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Simplicity :: Simplicity (n.) Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
Breed :: Breed (n.) A number produced at once; a brood.
Dentize :: Dentize (v. t. & i.) To breed or cut new teeth.
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Abandonment :: Abandonment (n.) Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
Impertinent :: Impertinent (a.) Contrary to, or offending against, the rules of propriety or good breeding; guilty of, or prone to, rude, unbecoming, or uncivil words or actions; as, an impertient coxcomb; an impertient remark..
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Fistulous :: Fistulous (a.) Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose..
Disenshrouded :: Disenshrouded (a.) Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.
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Avid :: Avid (a.) Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.
Sley :: Sley (v. t.) To separate or part the threads of, and arrange them in a reed; -- a term used by weavers. See Sleave, and Sleid..
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