{ } v. t. [ OE. areden, AS. ār&aemacr_;dan to interpret. See Read. ] 1. To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Therefore more plain aread this doubtful case. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To read. [ Obs. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To counsel, advise, warn, or direct. [ 1913 Webster ]

But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To decree; to adjudge. [ Archaic ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated, or to grow, as young before birth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have birth; to be produced or multiplied. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heavens rain grace
On that which breeds between them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To raise a breed; to get progeny. [ 1913 Webster ]

The kind of animal which you wish to breed from. Gardner. [ 1913 Webster ]

To breed in and in, to breed from animals of the same stock that are closely related. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bred p. pr. & vb. n. Breeding. ] [ OE. breden, AS. brēdan to nourish, cherish, keep warm, from brōd brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brüten. See Brood. ] 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the sun breed maggots in a dead dog. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To educate; to instruct; to form by education; to train; -- sometimes followed by up. [ 1913 Webster ]

But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To engender; to cause; to occasion; to originate; to produce; as, to breed a storm; to breed disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest the place
And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To raise, as any kind of stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To produce or obtain by any natural process. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Children would breed their teeth with less danger. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To engender; generate; beget; produce; hatch; originate; bring up; nourish; train; instruct. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Twice fifteen thousand hearts of England's breed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Greyhounds of the best breed. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Class; sort; kind; -- of men, things, or qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Are these the breed of wits so wondered at? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

This courtesy is not of the right breed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A number produced at once; a brood. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Breed is usually applied to domestic animals; species or variety to wild animals and to plants; and race to men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who breeds or originates quarrels. [ Obs. ] “No telltale nor no breedbate.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or } n. Breadth. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cause. “The breeder of my sorrow.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of generating or bearing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society. [ 1913 Webster ]

Delicacy of breeding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Descent; pedigree; extraction. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close breeding,
In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. --
Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. --
Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Education; instruction; nurture; training; manners. See Education. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. credo, crede, AS. creda, fr. L. credo I believe, at the beginning of the Apostles' creed, fr. credere to believe; akin to OIr. cretim I believe, and Skr. çraddadhāmi; çrat trust + dhā to put. See Do, v. t., and cf. Credo, Grant. ] 1. A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the Protestant system the creed is not coordinate with, but always subordinate to, the Bible. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to. [ 1913 Webster ]

I love him not, nor fear him; there's my creed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Apostles' creed,
Athanasian creed,
Nicene creed. See under Apostle, Athanasian, Nicene. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To believe; to credit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That part which is so creeded by the people. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a creed. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. possessing a college degree or degrees. [ PJC ]

‖it>or /mhw>, n. [ F. djerid, fr. Ar. See Jereed. ] (a) A blunt javelin used in military games in Moslem countries. (b) A game played with it. [ Written also jereed, jerrid, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To set free. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned with filigree. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Freedmen A man who has been a slave, and has been set free. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. freódōm; freófree + -dom. See Free, and -dom. ] 1. The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Privileges; franchises; immunities. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your charter and your caty's freedom. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Frankness; openness; unreservedness. [ 1913 Webster ]

I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Generosity; liberality. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Freedom fine, a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades. --
Freedom of the city, the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.

Syn. -- See Liberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Fridstol. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Music) a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Akin to Goth. grēdus hunger, Icel. grāðr. √34. See Greedy. ] An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a greedy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS gr&aemacr_;dignes. ] The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

Syn. -- Ravenousness; voracity; eagerness; avidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Greedier superl. Greediest. ] [ OE. gredi, AS. gr&aemacr_;dig, grēdig; akin to D. gretig, OS. grādag, OHG. grātag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, grådig, Icel. grāðugr, Goth. grēdags greedy, grēdēn to be hungry; cf. Skr. g&rsdot_;dh to be greedy. Cf. Greed. ] 1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A glutton. [ Low ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Half-blooded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who is half-blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Inbreed. ] To generate within; to inbreed. [ Obs. ] Hakewill.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inbred p. pr. & vb. n. Inbreeding. ] [ Cf. Imbreed. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To produce or generate within. Bp. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

To inbreed and cherish . . . the seeds of virtue. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To breed in and in. See under Breed, v. i. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ar. jerīd. Cf. Djereed. ] A blunt javelin used by the people of the Levant, especially in mock fights. [ Written also jerreed, jerid. ] Byron.

v. t. To breed to excess; as, the bulls were so huge and overbred no matador wanted to fight them. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Excessively greedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With ease. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Red. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. & n. Same as Rede. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [ Prov. Eng. or Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hreód; akin to D. riet, G. riet, ried, OHG. kriot, riot. ] 1. (Bot.) 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). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed
Of Hermes. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An arrow, as made of a reed. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Mus.) (a) 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. (b) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Weaving) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Arch.) Same as Reeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Egyptian reed (Bot.), the papyrus. --
Free reed (Mus.), a reed whose edges do not overlap the wind passage, -- used in the harmonium, concertina, etc. It is distinguished from the beating or striking reed of the organ and clarinet. --
Meadow reed grass (Bot.), the Glyceria aquatica, a tall grass found in wet places. --
Reed babbler. See Reedbird. --
Reed bunting (Zool.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schœniclus) which frequents marshy places; -- called also reed sparrow, ring bunting. (b) Reedling. --
Reed canary grass (Bot.), a tall wild grass (Phalaris arundinacea). --
Reed grass. (Bot.) (a) The common reed. See Reed, 1. (b) A plant of the genus Sparganium; bur reed. See under Bur. --
Reed organ (Mus.), an organ in which the wind acts on a set of free reeds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc. --
Reed pipe (Mus.), a pipe of an organ furnished with a reed. --
Reed sparrow. (Zool.) See Reed bunting, above. --
Reed stop (Mus.), a set of pipes in an organ furnished with reeds. --
Reed warbler. (Zool.) (a) A small European warbler (Acrocephalus streperus); -- called also reed wren. (b) Any one of several species of Indian and Australian warblers of the genera Acrocephalus, Calamoherpe, and Arundinax. They are excellent singers. --
Sea-sand reed (Bot.), a kind of coarse grass (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach. --
Wood reed grass (Bot.), a tall, elegant grass (Cinna arundinacea), common in moist woods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The bobolink. (b) One of several small Asiatic singing birds of the genera Schœnicola and Eurycercus; -- called also reed babbler. n. (Zool.) See Rietboc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Civered with reeds; reedy. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed with channels and ridges like reeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consisting of a reed or reeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through reeden pipes convey the golden flood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. réédification. See Reedify. ] The act reedifying; the state of being reedified. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + edify: cf. F. réédifier, L. reaedificare. ] To edify anew; to build again after destruction. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From 4th Reed. ] 1. (Arch.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Several reedings are often placed together, parallel to each other, either projecting from, or inserted into, the adjoining surface. The decoration so produced is then called, in general, reeding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The nurling on the edge of a coin; -- commonly called milling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European bearded titmouse (Panurus biarmicus); -- called also reed bunting, bearded pinnock, and lesser butcher bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is orange brown, marked with black, white, and yellow on the wings. The male has a tuft of black feathers on each side of the face. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The cat-tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mus.) A collective name for the reed stops of an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Abounding with reeds; covered with reeds. “A reedy pool.” Thomson . [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the quality of a reed in tone, that is, harsh and thin, as some voices. [ 1913 Webster ]