These are the meanings of the letters URDEE when you unscramble them.
- Deer (n. sing. & pl.)
A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. 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.
- Deer (n. sing. & pl.)
Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
- Dere (n.)
Harm.
- Dere (v. t.)
To hurt; to harm; to injure.
- Dree (a.)
Wearisome; tedious.
- Dree (v. i.)
To be able to do or endure.
- Dree (v. t.)
To endure; to suffer.
- Dure (a.)
Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
- Dure (a.)
To last; to continue; to endure.
- Rede (n.)
A word or phrase; a motto; a proverb; a wise saw.
- Rede (n.)
Advice; counsel; suggestion.
- Rede (v. t.)
To advise or counsel.
- Rede (v. t.)
To interpret; to explain.
- Reed (a.)
Red.
- Reed (n.)
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.
- Reed (n.)
A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe.
- Reed (n.)
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.)
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.)
A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.
- Reed (n.)
An arrow, as made of a reed.
- Reed (n.)
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.)
Same as Reeding.
- Reed (n.)
Straw prepared for thatching a roof.
- Reed (n.)
The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet.
- Reed (v. & n.)
Same as Rede.
- Rude (superl.)
Barbarous; fierce; bloody; impetuous; -- said of war, conflict, and the like; as, the rude shock of armies.
- Rude (superl.)
Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
- Rude (superl.)
Not finished or complete; inelegant; lacking chasteness or elegance; not in good taste; unsatisfactory in mode of treatment; -- said of literature, language, style, and the like.
- Rude (superl.)
Of untaught manners; unpolished; of low rank; uncivil; clownish; ignorant; raw; unskillful; -- said of persons, or of conduct, skill, and the like.
- Rude (superl.)
Unformed by taste or skill; not nicely finished; not smoothed or polished; -- said especially of material things; as, rude workmanship.
- Rude (superl.)
Violent; tumultuous; boisterous; inclement; harsh; severe; -- said of the weather, of storms, and the like; as, the rude winter.
- Rued (imp. & p. p.)
of Rue