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The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.
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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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Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
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Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
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Same as Reeding.
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An arrow, as made of a reed.
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A small convex molding; a reed (see Illust. (i) of Molding); one of several set close together to decorate a surface; also, decoration by means of reedings; -- the reverse of fluting.
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Civered with reeds; reedy.
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Any one of numerous species of small Old World singing birds belonging to the family Sylviidae, many of which are noted songsters. The bluethroat, blackcap, reed warbler (see under Reed), and sedge warbler (see under Sedge) are well-known species.
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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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Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
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A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
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The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.
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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.
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Consisting of a reed or reeds.
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The act reedifying; the state of being reedified.
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A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.
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Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
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A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.
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One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.
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