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- 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.