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- English Word Redweed Definition The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas).
- English Word Redwing Definition A European thrush (Turdus iliacus). Its under wing coverts are orange red. Called also redwinged thrush. (b) A North American passerine bird (Agelarius ph/niceus) of the family Icteridae. The male is black, with a conspicuous patch of bright red, bordered with orange, on each wing. Called also redwinged blackbird, red-winged troupial, marsh blackbird, and swamp blackbird.
- English Word Redwithe Definition A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
- English Word Redwood Definition A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
- English Word Redwood Definition An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
- English Word Ree Definition See Rei.
- English Word Ree Definition To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
- English Word Reebok Definition The peele.
- English Word Reecho Definition To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.
- English Word Reecho Definition To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.
- English Word Reecho Definition The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
- English Word Reechy Definition Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.
- English Word Reed Definition Red.
- English Word Reed Definition Same as Rede.
- English Word Reed Definition The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- English Word Reed Definition 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).
- English Word Reed Definition A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
- English Word Reed Definition An arrow, as made of a reed.
- English Word Reed Definition Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- English Word Reed Definition 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.
- English Word Reed Definition 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.
- English Word Reed Definition 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.
- English Word Reed Definition A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- English Word Reed Definition Same as Reeding.
- English Word Reed-mace Definition The cat-tail.
- English Word Reedbird Definition The bobolink.
- English Word Reedbird Definition One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.
- English Word Reedbuck Definition See Rietboc.
- English Word Reeded Definition Civered with reeds; reedy.
- English Word Reeded Definition Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.