Reed

red, n. (Bot.) One of a large family of plants, mostly aquatic, being chiefly large gra es, with hollow, jointed stems. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant a rustic or pastoral pipe an arrow, as mnde of a reed. (Mus.) A thin piece of wood attached to the mouth-piece of instruments of the clarionet species one of the thin pieces of metal, whose vibrations produce the tones of a melodeon, nccordeon, etc. Weaving.) A frame having parallel slips (c-illed "dents") of wood or metal for separating the threads of the warp and for beating the weft up to the web; a sley. (Anat.) The 4th or true digesting stomach of a ruminant. [AS. hreod, D. and G. riet, a reed (plant).] —Reed organ. (Mus.) A wind instrument of music, in which the wind acts on a set of reeds, as the melodeon.— Reed'- ing, n. (Arch.) A small molding in imitation of parallel reeds: see Molding. — Reed'y, a. Abounding with reeds; having the quality of a reed in tone, that harsh, as a voice.