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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read (r[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan to read, advise, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advice, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. r[=a][eth]a, Goth. r[=e]dan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. r[=a]dh to succeed. [root]116. Cf. Riddle.] 1. To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede. [1913 Webster] Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale. [1913 Webster] 2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. [1913 Webster] 3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] But read how art thou named, and of what kin. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 4. To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a book. [1913 Webster] Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. [1913 Webster] Who is't can read a woman? --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation. [1913 Webster] An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law. [1913 Webster] To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Read \Read\ (r[e^]d), imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Read \Read\, v. i.
1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
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2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over
and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like
document.
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So they read in the book of the law of God
distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii.
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4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
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5. To learn by reading.
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I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to
death for an iniquitous sentence. --Swift.
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6. To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage
reads thus in the early manuscripts.
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7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence
reads queerly.
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To read between the lines, to infer something different
from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning
as distinguished from the apparent meaning.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Read \Read\ (r[e^]d), a.
Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
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A poet . . . well read in Longinus. --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Read \Read\, n. [AS. r[=ae]d counsel, fr. r[=ae]dan to counsel. See Read, v. t.] 1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. [Read, v.] Reading. [Colloq.] --Hume. [1913 Webster] One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. --Furnivall. [1913 Webster]
