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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), noun Rennet. See 3d {Reed}. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\ (r[=e]d), verb (used with an object) [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}.
Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. --Tyndale.
2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
3. To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
But read how art thou named, and of what kin. --Spenser.
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.
Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. --Chaucer.
Well could he rede a lesson or a story. --Chaucer.
5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
Who is't can read a woman? --Shak.
6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. --Spenser.
Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. --Shak.
7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\, noun [AS. r[=ae]d counsel, fr. r[=ae]dan to counsel. See {Read}, verb (used with an object)]
1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See {Rede}. [Obs.]
2. [{Read}, v.] Reading. [Colloq.] --Hume.
One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. --Furnivall.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\ (r[e^]d), imp. & p. p. of {Read}, verb (used with an object) & i.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\, verb (used without an object)
1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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.
So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. --Neh. viii. 8.
4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. --Swift.
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.
7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
{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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Read \Read\ (r[e^]d), adjective Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
A poet . . . well read in Longinus. --Addison.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: something that is read; "the article was a very good read"
verb
1: interpret something that is written or printed; "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
2: have or contain a certain wording or form; "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?" [syn: {read}, {say}]
3: look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed; "The King will read the proclamation at noon"
4: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" [syn: {read}, {scan}]
5: interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior; "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
6: interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression; "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!" [syn: {take}, {read}]
7: be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam" [syn: {learn}, {study}, {read}, {take}]
8: indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments; "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read 'empty'" [syn: {read}, {register}, {show}, {record}]
9: audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role; "He is auditioning for 'Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
10: to hear and understand; "I read you loud and clear!"
11: make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?" [syn: {understand}, {read}, {interpret}, {translate}]
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