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der, often jointed, stems, such as the various kinds of bamboo, and especially the common reed of Europe and North America (Phragmites communis).

The cat-tail.

eral small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Schoenicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.

See Rietboc.

Civered with reeds; reedy. Tusser.

Consisting of a reed or reeds. Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood. Dryden.

The act reëdifying; the state of being reëdified.

To edify anew; to build again after destruction. [R.] Milton.

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.

Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.

The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird.

A collective name for the reed stops of an organ.

Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds. "A reedy pool." Thomson .

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [Obs.] Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser.

Breadth. [Obs.] Chaucer.

to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak.

One who breeds or originates quarrels. [Obs.] "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.

One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham.

aising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive. In the Protestant system the creed is not coördinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.