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Reed

noun

Tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites.

United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920). Synonym: John Reed.

United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902). Synonym: Walter Reed.

A vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it. Synonym: vibrating reed.

A musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed. Synonyms: beating-reed instrument, reed instrument.

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"Reed" Quotes from Famous Books

... the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse, and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod. Musical instruments should be like the silver tongs, with which the high-priests tended the Jewish altars—never to be touched by a hand profane. Who would bruise the poorest reed of Pan, though plucked from a beggar's hedge, would ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... a reed silleta at the window and watched the quivering gleams from the lights of the ...

— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

... hall was the common living-room for both men and women, who slept on the reed-strewn floor, the ladies' sleeping-place being separated from the men's by the arras. The walls were hung with tapestry, woven by the skilled fingers of the ladies of the household. A peat or log fire burned in the centre of the hall, and the smoke ...

— English Villages • P. H. Ditchfield

... was Mr. Eltwood. She had a vague sense of disappointment, but received him cordially. He stood there, his hat off, holding her hand for a long moment, and gazing at her with evident admiration. They turned and sat down in the shadow of the reed-curtained corner. ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... first wife was Sally Dillis Blaire and we were married in 1889. I got a divorce a few years later and I don't know whatever became of her. My second wife is still living. Her name was Kattie Belle Reed and I married her in 1907. No, I never ...

— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: The Ohio Narratives • Works Projects Administration

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