A long speech or dissertation.
1855. The Knickerbocker Magazine prints “Another amusing ‘Screed.’”—xlv. 433 (April).
1857. This is a long ‘screed,’ but it occurred to us, and we thought we would jot it down.—Id., l. 528 (Nov.).
1861. Here are two legal ‘screeds,’ which you are at liberty to throw into the fire if you find them unworthy of a place at your ‘Table.’—Id., lviii. 280 (Sept.).
1875. If he were talking about a trifling letter he had received seven years before, he was pretty sure to deliver the entire screed from memory.—Mark Twain, ‘Old Times on the Mississippi,’ Atlantic Monthly, xxxv. p. 572/1 (May).
1881. “Mr. Gibson’s Screed.”—Heading of an article on his report concerning the Post Office Frauds: Washington Post, Nov. 24.
