Definition of reed

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Reed (n.) 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..

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Grade :: Grade (n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade..
Latitudinarian :: Latitudinarian (n.) One who is moderate in his notions, or not restrained by precise settled limits in opinion; one who indulges freedom in thinking..
Sweepstakes :: Sweepstakes (sing. / pl.) The whole money or other things staked at a horse race, a given sum being put up for each horse, all of which goes to the winner, or is divided among several, as may be previously agreed..
Agreed :: Agreed (imp. & p. p.) of Agre.
Foul :: Foul (superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out..
Dreadlessness :: Dreadlessness (n.) Freedom from dread.
Persecute :: Persecute (v. t.) To pursue in a manner to injure, grieve, or afflict; to beset with cruelty or malignity; to harass; especially, to afflict, harass, punish, or put to death, for adherence to a particular religious creed or mode of worship..
Whiteness :: Whiteness (n.) Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.
Gentry :: Gentry (a.) People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry..
Stud :: Stud (n.) A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place where they are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding, etc..
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..
Purity :: Purity (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals..
Safety :: Safety (n.) The condition or state of being safe; freedom from danger or hazard; exemption from hurt, injury, or loss..
Standardize :: Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders..
Simplicity :: Simplicity (n.) Artlessness of mind; freedom from cunning or duplicity; lack of acuteness and sagacity.
Avidity :: Avidity (n.) Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity..
Loo :: Loo (n.) An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; -- formerly called lanterloo..
Warren :: Warren (n.) A piece of ground for the breeding of rabbits.
Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.
Harmonicon :: Harmonicon (n.) A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds..
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