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The sea-sand reed. See under Reed.
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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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Having the quality of reed in tone, that is, ///// and thin^ as some voices.
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Civered with reeds; reedy.
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Consisting of a reed or reeds.
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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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The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.
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Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.
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Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds.
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Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.
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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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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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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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Same as Reeding.
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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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An arrow, as made of a reed.
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The act reedifying; the state of being reedified.
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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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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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A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.
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