Definition of Reedily

1. with a thin, piping sound [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reedily

reeded
reeden
reeder
reeders
reedes
reedier
reediest
reedification
reedifications
reedified
reedifies
reedify
reedifying
reedily (current term)
reediness
reedinesses
reeding
reedings
reedist
reedists
reedit
reedited
reediting
reedition
reeditions
reedits
reedless
reedlike

Literary usage of Reedily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"The pest of insects and other creatures seems almost •able ; the worst of them all being the ground leeches, which reedily on men and animals, ..."

2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: in twenty-four volumes. by William Makepeace Thackeray (1869)
"Thus I ould see that every day Mrs. Prior visited Shrublands she gleaned reedily of the harvest. Well, Boaz was rich, and this ruthless Ruth ,-as hungry and ..."

3. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (1840)
"... they listened reedily to all he said, and were ready instantly ) call in the Argives and their companions, nd to make them confederates. ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... and to solve most reedily th* problem as to what is the relation between cost of production and possible profit, that the value of free-trad* гл» ciples ..."

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