the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Reed (2)
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
(2):
(n.) Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
(7):
(n.) Same as Reeding.
(8):
(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).
(9):
(n.) The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
(10):
(v. & n.) Same as Rede.
(11):
(a.) Red.
(12):
(n.) An arrow, as made of a reed.
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Reed (2)'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/reed-2.html. 1828.
