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   Screed (skrēd), n. [Prov. E., a shred, the border of a cap. See Shred.]
   1. (Arch.) (a) A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide. (b) A wooden straightedge used to lay across the plaster screed, as a limit for the thickness of the coat.
   
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   2. A fragment; a portion; a shred. [Scot.]
   
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   Screed, n. [See 1st Screed. For sense 2 cf. also Gael. sgread an outcry.]
   1. A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, “martial screeds”.
   
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   2. An harangue; a long tirade on any subject.
   
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   The old carl gae them a screed of doctrine; ye might have heard him a mile down the wind. Sir W. Scott.
   
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