Read \Read\, n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]

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Read \Read\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read; p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.]

[OE. reden, r[ae]den, AS. r[=ae]dan to read, advice, counsel, fr. r[=ae]d advise, counsel, r[=ae]dan (imperf. reord) to advice, 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 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 about 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.

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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.]

2. [Read, v.]

Reading. [Colloq.]

--Hume.

One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. --Furnivall.

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Read \Read\, a. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.

A poet . . . well read in Longinus. --Addison.

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Read \Read\, imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.

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Read \Read\, v. t.

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.

5. To learn by reading.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)