Rhymes for BUR-REED

• an advantage held by a competitor in a race

• a soft heavy toxic malleable metallic element; bluish white when freshly cut but tarnishes readily to dull grey

• mixture of graphite with clay in different degrees of hardness; the marking substance in a pencil

• evidence pointing to a possible solution

• a position of being the initiator of something and an example that others will follow (especially in the phrase `take the lead')

• the angle between the direction a gun is aimed and the position of a moving target (correcting for the flight time of the missile)

• the introductory section of a story

• (sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning

• an actor who plays a principal role

• (baseball) the position taken by a base runner preparing to advance to the next base

• an indication of potential opportunity

• a news story of major importance

• the timing of ignition relative to the position of the piston in an internal-combustion engine

• restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

• thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing

• a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire

• the playing of a card to start a trick in bridge

• take somebody somewhere

• produce as a result or residue

• tend to or result in

• travel in front of; go in advance of others

• cause to undertake a certain action

• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

• be in charge of

• be ahead of others; be the first

• be conducive to

• lead, as in the performance of a composition

• lead, extend, or afford access

• move ahead (of others) in time or space

• cause something to pass or lead somewhere

• preside over

• a condition requiring relief

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• require as useful, just, or proper

• have need of

• have or feel a need for

• continue talking

• move ahead; travel onward in time or space

• follow a procedure or take a course

• follow a certain course

• continue a certain state, condition, or activity

• be greater in scope or size than some standard

• be superior or better than some standard

• be or do something to a greater degree

• food for domestic livestock

• provide as food

• give food to

• feed into; supply

• introduce continuously

• support or promote

• take in food; used of animals only

• serve as food for; be the food for

• move along, of liquids

• profit from in an exploitatory manner

• gratify

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

• in truth (often tends to intensify)

• (used as an interjection) an expression of surprise or skepticism or irony etc.

• act between parties with a view to reconciling differences

• something that is read

• interpret something that is written or printed

• have or contain a certain wording or form

• look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed

• obtain data from magnetic tapes or other digital sources

• interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior

• interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression

• be a student of a certain subject

• indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments

• audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role

• to hear and understand

• make sense of a language

• lose blood from one's body

• draw blood

• get or extort (money or other possessions) from someone

• be diffused

• drain of liquid or steam

• a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it

• something that people do or cause to happen

• paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)

• pay close attention to; give heed to

• attain success or reach a desired goal

• be the successor (of)

• (literary) a spirited horse for state of war

• a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications

• an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true

• a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults

• give surety or assume responsibility

• make certain of

• promise to do or accomplish

• stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of

• pull back or move away or backward

• retreat

• become faint or more distant

• appeal or request earnestly

• offer as an excuse or plea

• enter a plea, as in courts of law

• make an allegation in an action or other legal proceeding, especially answer the previous pleading of the other party by denying facts therein stated or by alleging new facts

• united by being of the same opinion

• any system of principles or beliefs

• the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group

• thick woolen fabric used for clothing; originated in Scotland

• (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

• a small hard fruit

• a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

• one of the outstanding players in a tournament

• anything that provides inspiration for later work

• the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

• go to seed; shed seeds

• help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

• bear seeds

• place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth

• distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

• sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain

• inoculate with microorganisms

• remove the seeds from

• a small ball with a hole through the middle

• a shape that is spherical and small

• a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture

• form into beads, as of water or sweat, for example

• decorate by sewing beads onto

• string together like beads

• admit (to a wrongdoing)

• be willing to concede

• give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

• acknowledge defeat

• be a hindrance or obstacle to

• block passage through

• fitted with or secured by a key

• set to a key or tone

• to mix into a homogeneous mass

• manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes

• made of fermented honey and water

• United States anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in Polynesian cultures (1901-1978)

• United States philosopher of pragmatism (1863-1931)

• lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions

• give false or misleading information to

• read or interpret wrongly

• interpret wrongly

• read anew; read again

• a headlong rush of people on a common impulse

• a wild headlong rush of frightened animals (horses or cattle)

• cause to run in panic

• cause a group or mass of people to act on an impulse or hurriedly and impulsively

• act, usually en masse, hurriedly or on an impulse

• run away in a stampede

• a native or inhabitant of Sweden

• a cruciferous plant with a thick bulbous edible yellow root

• the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

• narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow

• move along on skis

• United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920)

• tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera Arundo and Phragmites

• a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it

• United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902)

• a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed

• improper or wicked or immoral behavior

• seed again or anew

• maintain by seeding without human intervention

• cooked by frying in fat

• bleeding from the nose

• feed excessively

• widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers; sometimes an obnoxious weed and toxic to cattle if consumed in quantity

• any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma

• plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae

• yield to another's wish or opinion

• take on duties or office

• to agree or express agreement

• give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another

• relinquish possession or control over

• be earlier in time; go back further

• come before

• be the predecessor of

• move ahead (of others) in time or space

• furnish with a preface or introduction

• withdraw from an organization or communion

• a special variety of domesticated animals within a species

• a special type

• call forth

• copulate with a female, used especially of horses

• cause to procreate (animals)

• have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms)

• fixed or established especially by order or command

• excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves

• reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

• take the place or move into the position of

• be of different opinions

• be different from one another