rede

noun

1. (archaic, dialectal, uncountable)Help, advice, counsel.

   “Ophelia: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.”

   “When the Bull heard these words he knew the Ass to be his friend and thanked him, saying, "Right is thy rede"”

   “‘Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.’”

2. (archaic, dialectal, uncountable)Decision, a plan.

verb

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To govern, protect.
2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To discuss, deliberate.
3. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To advise.

   “The meane whyle his squyer founde wryten vpon the crosse that Bagdemagus shold neuer retorne vnto the Courte ageyne / tyll he had wonne a knyȝtes body of the round table body for body / lo syr said his squyer / here I fynde wrytyng of yow / therfor I rede yow retorne ageyne to the Courte / that shalle I neuer said Bagdemagus”

   “But let me rede you, marry not.”

4. (UK, archaic, dialectal, transitive)To interpret (a riddle or dream); explain.

   “The secret of Man's Being is still like the Sphinx's secret: a riddle that he cannot rede.”

name

1. A river in Northumberland, England, which joins the River North Tyne at Redesmouth.