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Read  v. t.  (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)  
1.
To advise; to counsel. (Obs.) See Rede. "Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine."
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."
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." "Well could he rede a lesson or a story."
5.
Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. "Who is't can read a woman?"
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." "Those about her From her shall read the perfect ways of honor."
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.


Read  v. i.  (past & past part. read; pres. part. reading)  
1.
To give advice or counsel. (Obs.)
2.
To tell; to declare. (Obs.)
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."
4.
To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
5.
To learn by reading. "I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence."
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.


Read  v.  Imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.


noun
Read  n.  Rennet. See 3d Reed. (Prov. Eng.)


Read  n.  
1.
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. (Obs.)
2.
Reading. (Colloq.) "One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read."


adjective
Read  adj.  Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. "A poet... well read in Longinus."





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"Read" Quotes from Famous Books



... all fear vanishing in the glow of righteous indignation which filled him,—"I meant the system which makes it a crime to teach a man to read—a punishable offence to befriend the poor and down-trodden, or to bind up wounds. A system which makes it dangerous for one to utter his honest opinions, even in private, to a person towards whom he is at the same time showing the mercy ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... us thus far to adopt this branch of botany as their speciality. Hitherto it has been very much neglected, and a wide field is open for investigation and research. The life-history of the majority of species has still to be read, and the prospects of new discoveries for the industrious and persevering student are great. All who have as yet devoted themselves with assiduity have been in this manner rewarded. The objects are easily obtainable, and there is a constantly increasing infatuation in the study. Where so much ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
... We read in Anaxagoras, that Orpheus said, that the water, and the vessel that produced it, were the primitive principles of things, and together gave existence to an animated being, which was a serpent, with two heads, one of a lion and the other ...
— Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike
... or to as high a degree as the interior of the oven, the true temperature of the oven cannot be ascertained by this device. By making allowance for the difference, however, such a thermometer may prove very useful. It is much more accurately and conveniently read than a thermometer which is hung or rests inside the oven unless the oven is ...
— School and Home Cooking • Carlotta C. Greer
... four hundred miles north of here, in Athabasca Lake. Both these two rivers, you might say, come together there. But look what a long river it is if you call the Athabasca and the Mackenzie the same! And look at the big lakes up there that we have read about. The Mackenzie takes you ...
— Young Alaskans in the Far North • Emerson Hough


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