Wordscapes Level 4812, Icicle 12 Answers

The Wordscapes level 4812 is a part of the set Frigid and comes in position 12 of Icicle pack. Players who will solve it will recieve 92 brilliance additional points which help you imporve your rankings in leaderboard.
The tray contains 7 letters which are ‘EETRTDF’, with those letters, you can place 20 words in the crossword. and 4 words that aren’t in the puzzle worth the equivalent of 4 coin(s). This level has an extra word in vertical position.

Wordscapes level 4812 Icicle 12 Answers :

wordscapes level 4812 answer

Bonus Words:

  • DEFTER
  • ERE
  • FETED
  • TEED

Regular Words:

  • DEER
  • DEFER
  • DEFT
  • DETER
  • FED
  • FEE
  • FEED
  • FEET
  • FETE
  • FETTER
  • FREE
  • FREED
  • FRET
  • FRETTED
  • RED
  • REED
  • REEF
  • REF
  • TEE
  • TREE

Definitions:

  • Deer : 1. Any animal; especially, a wild animal. [Obs.] Chaucer. Mice and rats, and such small deer. Shak. The camel, that great deer. Lindisfarne MS. 2. (Zoöl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidæ. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison. Note: The deer hunted in England is Cervus elaphus, called also stag or red deer; the fallow deer is C. dama; the common American deer is C. Virginianus; the blacktailed deer of Western North America is C. Columbianus; and the mule deer of the same region is C. macrotis. See Axis, Fallow deer, Mule deer, Reindeer. Note: Deer is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, deerkiller, deerslayer, deerslaying, deer hunting, deer stealing, deerlike, etc. Deer mouse (Zoöl.), the white-footed mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) of America. — Small deer, petty game, not worth pursuing; — used metaphorically. (See citation from Shakespeare under the first definition, above.) “Minor critics . . . can find leisure for the chase of such small deer.” G. P. Marsh.
  • Defer : To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.nnTo put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.nn1. To render or offer. [Obs.] Worship deferred to the Virgin. Brevint. 2. To lay before; to submit in a respectful manner; to refer; — with to. Hereupon the commissioners . . . deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland. Bacon.nnTo yield deference to the wishes of another; to submit to the opinion of another, or to authority; — with to. The house, deferring to legal right, acquiesced. Bancroft.
  • Deft : Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat. [Archaic or Poetic] “The deftest way.” Shak. “Deftest feats.” Gay. The limping god, do deft at his new ministry. Dryden. Let me be deft and debonair. Byron.
  • Deter : To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc. Addison. Potent enemies tempt and deter us from our duty. Tillotson. My own face deters me from my glass. Prior.
  • Fed : imp. & p. p. of Feed.
  • Fee : 1. property; possession; tenure. “Laden with rich fee.” Spenser. Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee. Wordsworth. 2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk’s fees; sheriff’s fees; marriage fees, etc. To plead for love deserves more fee than hate. Shak. 3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior’s land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief. 4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner. Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a qualitified or base fee, which ceases with the existence of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee tail, which is limited to particular heirs. Blackstone. 5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure. Fee estate (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered to the lord. — Fee farm (Law), land held of another in fee, in consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty, or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment; an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent. Blackstone. — Fee farm rent (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple. — Fee fund (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the clerks and other court officers are paid. — Fee simple (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions or limits. Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Shak. — Fee tail (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and restrained to some particular heirs. Burill.nnTo reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. The patient . . . fees the doctor. Dryden. There’s not a one of them but in his house I keep a servant feed. Shak.
  • Feed : 1. To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak. 2. To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste, or desire. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Shak. Feeding him with the hope of liberty. Knolles. 3. To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal. 4. To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard. Thou shalt feed people Israel. 2 Sam. v. 2. Mightiest powers by deepest calms are feed. B. Cornwall. 5. To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep. Once in three years feed your mowing lands. Mortimer. 6. To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler. 7. (Mach.) (a) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press. (b) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work).nn1. To take food; to eat. Her kid . . . which I afterwards killed because it would not feed. De Foe. 2. To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one’s self (upon something); to prey; — with on or upon. Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. Shak. 3. To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food. “He feeds upon the cooling shade.” Spenser. 4. To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze. If a man . . . shall put in his beast, and shall feed in anotheEx. xxii. 5.nn1. That which is eaten; esp., food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep. 2. A grazing or pasture ground. Shak. 3. An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats. 4. A meal, or the act of eating. [R.] For such pleasure till that hour At feed or fountain never had I found. Milton. 5. The water supplied to steam boilers. 6. (Mach.) (a) The motion, or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work. (b) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace, or grain to a run of stones. (c) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion. Feed bag, a nose bag containing feed for a horse or mule. — Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc. — Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal. — Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; — also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight. — Feed heater. (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated, usually by exhaust steam. (b) A boiler or kettle in which is heated food for stock. — Feed motion, or Feed gear (Mach.), the train of mechanism that gives motion to the part that directly produces the feed in a machine. — Feed pipe, a pipe for supplying the boiler of a steam engine, etc., with water. — Feed pump, a force pump for supplying water to a steam boiler, etc. — Feed regulator, a device for graduating the operation of a feeder. Knight. — Feed screw, in lathes, a long screw employed to impart a regular motion to a tool rest or tool, or to the work. — Feed water, water supplied to a steam boiler, etc. — Feed wheel (Mach.), a kind of feeder. See Feeder, n., 8.
  • Feet : See Foot.nnFact; performance. [Obs.]
  • Fete : A feat. [Obs.] Chaucer.nnFeet. [Obs.] Chaucer.nnA festival. Fête champêtre ( Etym: [F.], a festival or entertainment in the open air; a rural festival.nnTo feast; to honor with a festival.
  • Fetter : 1. A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [They] bound him with fetters of brass. Judg. xvi. 21. 2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. Passion’s too fierce to be in fetters bound. Dryden.nn1. To put fetters upon; to shakle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind. My heels are fettered, but my fist is free. Milton. 2. To reastrain from motion; to impose restrains on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations. My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists. Shak.
  • Free : 1. Exempt from subjection to the will of others; not under restraint, control, or compulsion; able to follow one’s own impulses, desires, or inclinations; determining one’s own course of action; not dependent; at liberty. That which has the power, or not the power, to operate, is that alone which is or is not free. Locke. 2. Not under an arbitrary or despotic government; subject only to fixed laws regularly and fairly administered, and defended by them from encroachments upon natural or acquired rights; enjoying political liberty. 3. Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control of parents, guardian, or master. 4. Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go. Set an unhappy prisoner free. Prior. 5. Not subjected to the laws of physical necessity; capable of voluntary activity; endowed with moral liberty; — said of the will. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love. Milton. 6. Clear of offense or crime; guiltless; innocent. My hands are guilty, but my heart is free. Dryden. 7. Unconstrained by timidity or distrust; unreserved; ingenuous; frank; familiar; communicative. He was free only with a few. Milward. 8. Unrestrained; immoderate; lavish; licentious; — used in a bad sense. The critics have been very free in their censures. Felton. A man may live a free life as to wine or women. Shelley. 9. Not close or parsimonious; liberal; open-handed; lavish; as, free with his money. 10. Exempt; clear; released; liberated; not encumbered or troubled with; as, free from pain; free from a burden; — followed by from, or, rarely, by of. Princes declaring themselves free from the obligations of their treaties. Bp. Burnet. 11. Characteristic of one acting without restraint; charming; easy. 12. Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited; as, a free horse. 13. Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; — followed by of. He therefore makes all birds, of every sect, Free of his farm. Dryden. 14. Thrown open, or made accessible, to all; to be enjoyed without limitations; unrestricted; not obstructed, engrossed, or appropriated; open; — said of a thing to be possessed or enjoyed; as, a free school. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you Shak. 15. Not gained by importunity or purchase; gratuitous; spontaneous; as, free admission; a free gift. 16. Not arbitrary or despotic; assuring liberty; defending individual rights against encroachment by any person or class; instituted by a free people; — said of a government, institutions, etc. 17. (O. Eng. Law) Certain or honorable; the opposite of base; as, free service; free socage. Burrill. 18. (Law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common; as, a free fishery; a free warren. Burrill. 19. Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells. Free agency, the capacity or power of choosing or acting freely, or without necessity or constraint upon the will. — Free bench (Eng. Law), a widow’s right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds. — Free board (Naut.), a vessel’s side between water line and gunwale. — Free bond (Chem.), an unsaturated or unemployed unit, or bond, of affinity or valence, of an atom or radical. — Free-borough men (O.Eng. Law). See Friborg. — Free chapel (Eccles.), a chapel not subject to the jurisdiction of the ordinary, having been founded by the king or by a subject specially authorized. [Eng.] Bouvier. — Free charge (Elec.), a charge of electricity in the free or statical condition; free electricity. — Free church. (a) A church whose sittings are for all and without charge. (b) An ecclesiastical body that left the Church of Scotland, in 1843, to be free from control by the government in spiritual matters. — Free city, or Free town, a city or town independent in its government and franchises, as formerly those of the Hanseatic league. — Free cost, freedom from charges or expenses. South. — Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] “Sal and her free and easy ways.” W. Black. — Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty. — Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. — Free port. (Com.) (a) A port where goods may be received and shipped free of custom duty. (b) A port where goods of all kinds are received from ships of all nations at equal rates of duty. — Free public house, in England, a tavern not belonging to a brewer, so that the landlord is free to brew his own beer or purchase where he chooses. Simmonds. — Free school. (a) A school to which pupils are admitted without discrimination and on an equal footing. (b) A school supported by general taxation, by endowmants, etc., where pupils pay nothing for tuition; a public school. — Free services (O.Eng. Law), such feudal services as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freemen to perform; as, to serve under his lord in war, to pay a sum of money, etc. Burrill. — Free ships, ships of neutral nations, which in time of war are free from capture even though carrying enemy’s goods. — Free socage (O.Eng. Law), a feudal tenure held by certain services which, though honorable, were not military. Abbott. — Free States, those of the United States before the Civil War, in which slavery had ceased to exist, or had never existed. — Free stuff (Carp.), timber free from knots; clear stuff. — Free thought, that which is thought independently of the authority of others. — Free trade, commerce unrestricted by duties or tariff regulations. — Free trader, one who believes in free trade. — To make free with, to take liberties with; to help one’s self to. [Colloq.] — To sail free (Naut.), to sail with the yards not braced in as sharp as when sailing closehauled, or close to the wind.nn1. Freely; willingly. [Obs.] I as free forgive you As I would be forgiven. Shak. 2. Without charge; as, children admitted free.nn1. To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; — followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. Clarendon. Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. Dryden. Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke. Milton. 2. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of. This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to his person. Dryden. 3. To frank. [Obs.] Johnson.
  • Fret : See 1st Frith.nn1. To devour. [Obs.] The sow frete the child right in the cradle. Chaucer. 2. To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson. 3. To impair; to wear away; to diminish. By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. Shak. 4. To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water. 5. To tease; to irritate; to vex. Fret not thyself because of evil doers. Ps. xxxvii. 1.nn1. To be worn away; to chafe; to fray; as, a wristband frets on the edges. 2. To eat in; to make way by corrosion. Many wheals arose, and fretted one into another with great excoriation. Wiseman. 3. To be agitated; to be in violent commotion; to rankle; as, rancor frets in the malignant breast. 4. To be vexed; to be chafed or irritated; to be angry; to utter peevish expressions. He frets, he fumes, he stares, he stamps the ground. Dryden.nn1. The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. Addison. 2. Agitation of mind marked by complaint and impatience; disturbance of temper; irritation; as, he keeps his mind in a continual fret. Yet then did Dennis rave in furious fret. Pope. 3. Herpes; tetter. Dunglison. 4. pl. (Mining) The worn sides of river banks, where ores, or stones containing them, accumulate by being washed down from the hills, and thus indicate to the miners the locality of the veins.nnTo ornament with raised work; to variegate; to diversify. Whose skirt with gold was fretted all about. Spenser. Yon gray lines, That fret the clouds, are messengers of day. Shak.nn1. Ornamental work in relief, as carving or embossing. See Fretwork. 2. (Arch.) An ornament consisting of smmall fillets or slats intersecting each other or bent at right angles, as in classical designs, or at obilique angles, as often in Oriental art. His lady’s cabinet is a adorned on the fret, ceiling, and chimney- piece with . . . carving. Evelyn. 3. The reticulated headdress or net, made of gold or silver wire, in which ladies in the Middle Ages confined their hair. A fret of gold she had next her hair. Chaucer. Fret saw, a saw with a long, narrow blade, used in cutting frets, scrolls, etc.; a scroll saw; a keyhole saw; a compass saw.nn1. (Her.) A saltire interlaced with a mascle. 2. (Mus.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed.nnTo furnish with frets, as an instrument of music.
  • Fretted : 1. Rubbed or worn away; chafed. 2. Agitated; vexed; worried.nn1. Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface. 2. (Her.) Interlaced one with another; — said of charges and ordinaries.
  • Red : . imp. & p. p. of Read. Spenser.nnTo put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; — generally with up; as, to red up a house. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]nnOf the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. “Fresh flowers, white and reede.” Chaucer. Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose. Shak. Note: Red is a general term, including many different shades or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red, and the like. Note: Red is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, red-breasted, red-cheeked, red-faced, red-haired, red- headed, red-skinned, red-tailed, red-topped, red-whiskered, red- coasted. Red admiral (Zoöl.), a beautiful butterfly (Vanessa Atalanta) common in both Europe and America. The front wings are crossed by a broad orange red band. The larva feeds on nettles. Called also Atlanta butterfly, and nettle butterfly. — Red ant. (Zoöl.) (a) A very small ant (Myrmica molesta) which often infests houses. (b) A larger reddish ant (Formica sanquinea), native of Europe and America. It is one of the slave-making species. — Red antimony (Min.), kermesite. See Kermes mineral (b), under Kermes. — Red ash (Bot.), an American tree (Fraxinus pubescens), smaller than the white ash, and less valuable for timber. Cray. — Red bass. (Zoöl.) See Redfish (d). — Red bay (Bot.), a tree (Persea Caroliniensis) having the heartwood red, found in swamps in the Southern United States. — Red beard (Zoöl.), a bright red sponge (Microciona prolifera), common on oyster shells and stones. [Local, U.S.] — Red birch (Bot.), a species of birch (Betula nigra) having reddish brown bark, and compact, light-colored wood. Gray. — Red blindness. (Med.) See Daltonism. — Red book, a book containing the names of all the persons in the service of the state. [Eng.] — Red book of the Exchequer, an ancient record in which are registered the names of all that held lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II. Brande & C. — Red brass, an alloy containing eight parts of copper and three of zinc. — Red bug. (Zoöl.) (a) A very small mite which in Florida attacks man, and produces great irritation by its bites. (b) A red hemipterous insect of the genus Pyrrhocoris, especially the European species (P. apterus), which is bright scarlet and lives in clusters on tree trunks. (c) See Cotton stainder, under Cotton. — Red cedar. (Bot.) An evergreen North American tree (Juniperus Virginiana) having a fragrant red-colored heartwood. (b) A tree of India and Australia (Cedrela Toona) having fragrant reddish wood; — called also toon tree in India. — Red chalk. See under Chalk. — Red copper (Min.), red oxide of copper; cuprite. — Red coral (Zoöl.), the precious coral (Corallium rubrum). See Illusts. of Coral and Gorgonlacea. — Red cross. The cross of St. George, the national emblem of the English. (b) The Geneva cross. See Geneva convention, and Geneva cross, under Geneva. — Red currant. (Bot.) See Currant. — Red deer. (Zoöl.) (a) The common stag (Cervus elaphus), native of the forests of the temperate parts of Europe and Asia. It is very similar to the American elk, or wapiti. (b) The Virginia deer. See Deer. — Red duck (Zoöl.), a European reddish brown duck (Fuligula nyroca); — called also ferruginous duck. — Red ebony. (Bot.) See Grenadillo. — Red empress (Zoöl.), a butterfly. See Tortoise shell. — Red fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) found from British Columbia to Texas, and highly valued for its durable timber. The name is sometimes given to other coniferous trees, as the Norway spruce and the American Abies magnifica and A. nobilis. — Red fire. (Pyrotech.) See Blue fire, under Fire. — Red flag. See under Flag. — Red fox (Zoöl.), the common American fox (Vulpes fulvus), which is usually reddish in color. — Red grouse (Zoöl.), the Scotch grouse, or ptarmigan. See under Ptarmigan. — Red gum, or Red gum-tree (Bot.), a name given to eight Australian species of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus amygdalina, resinifera, etc.) which yield a reddish gum resin. See Eucalyptus. — Red hand (Her.), a left hand appaumé, fingers erect, borne on an escutcheon, being the mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; — called also Badge of Ulster. — Red herring, the common herring dried and smoked. — Red horse. (Zoöl.) (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially Moxostoma macrolepidotum and allied species. (b) See the Note under Drumfish. — Red lead. (Chem) See under Lead, and Minium. — Red-lead ore. (Min.) Same as Crocoite. — Red liquor (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; — so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also red mordant. — Red maggot (Zoöl.), the larva of the wheat midge. — Red manganese. (Min.) Same as Rhodochrosite. — Red man, one of the American Indians; — so called from his color. — Red maple (Bot.), a species of maple (Acer rubrum). See Maple. — Red mite. (Zoöl.) See Red spider, below. — Red mulberry (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color (Morus rubra). — Red mullet (Zoöl.), the surmullet. See Mullet. — Red ocher (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color. — Red perch (Zoöl.), the rosefish. — Red phosphorus. (Chem.) See under Phosphorus. — Red pine (Bot.), an American species of pine (Pinus resinosa); — so named from its reddish bark. — Red precipitate. See under Precipitate. — Red Republican (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, — because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. [Cant] — Red ribbon, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England. — Red sanders. (Bot.) See Sanders. — Red sandstone. (Geol.) See under Sandstone. — Red scale (Zoöl.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus aurantii) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia. — Red silver (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes proustite, or light red silver, and pyrargyrite, or dark red silver. — Red snapper (Zoöl.), a large fish (Lutlanus aya or Blackfordii) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs. — Red snow, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga (Protococcus nivalis) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions. — Red softening (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, — a condition due either to infarction or inflammation. — Red spider (Zoöl.), a very small web-spinning mite (Tetranychus telarius) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also red mite. — Red squirrel (Zoöl.), the chickaree. — Red tape, the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc.; hence, official formality and delay. — Red underwing (Zoöl.), any species of noctuid moths belonging to Catacola and allied genera. The numerous species are mostly large and handsomely colored. The under wings are commonly banded with bright red or orange. — Red water, a disease in cattle, so called from an appearance like blood in the urine.nn1. The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these. “Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue.” Milton. 2. A red pigment. 3. (European Politics) An abbreviation for Red Republican. See under Red, a. [Cant] 4. pl. (Med.) The menses. Dunglison. English red, a pigment prepared by the Dutch, similar to Indian red. — Hypericum red, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from Hypericum. — Indian red. See under Indian, and Almagra.
  • Reed : Red. [Obs.] Chaucer.nnSame as Rede. [Obs.] Chaucer.nnThe fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]nn1. (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). 2. A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes. Milton. 3. An arrow, as made of a reed. Prior. 4. Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [Prov. Eng.] 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. 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. 7. (Mining) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. 8. (Arch.) Same as Reeding. 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 (Zoöl.) A European sparrow (Emberiza schoeniclus) 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. (Zoöl.) See Reed bunting, above. — Reed stop (Mus.), a set of pipes in an organ furnished with reeds. — Reed warbler. (Zoöl.) (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.
  • Reef : 1. A chain or range of rocks lying at or near the surface of the water. See Coral reefs, under Coral. 2. (Mining.) A large vein of auriferous quartz; — so called in Australia. Hence, any body of rock yielding valuable ore. Reef builder (Zoöl.), any stony coral which contributes material to the formation of coral reefs. — Reef heron (Zoöl.), any heron of the genus Demigretta; as, the blue reef heron (D.jugularis) of Australia.nnThat part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size o

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