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Reduplicate
v. t.
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To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word). See Reduplication, 3.
Reduplication
n.
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The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
Reduplication
n.
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A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.
Reduplication
n.
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The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.
Reduplicative
a.
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Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate.
Reduvid
n.
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Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some species also attack man.
Redwing
n.
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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.
Redwithe
n.
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A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Redwood
n.
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A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia.
Redwood
n.
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An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, Caesalpinia Sappan, and several other trees.
Ree
n.
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See Rei.
Reecho
v. i.
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To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.
Reecho
n.
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The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.
Reechy
a.
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Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt.
Reed
a.
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Red.
Reed
v. & n.
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Same as Rede.
Reed
n.
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The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
Reed
n.
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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).
Reed
n.
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A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
Reed
n.
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An arrow, as made of a reed.
Reed
n.
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Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
Reed
n.
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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.
Reed
n.
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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.
Reed
n.
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A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
Reed
n.
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Same as Reeding.
Reedbird
n.
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The bobolink.
Reedbird
n.
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One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Sch/nicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler.
Reedbuck
n.
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See Rietboc.
Reeded
a.
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Civered with reeds; reedy.
Reeded
a.
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Formed with channels and ridges like reeds.