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screed

screed is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]
  2. 2.A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
  3. 3.An harangue; a long tirade on any subject. The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. Sir W. Scott.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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