- (a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
- (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Read.
- (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
- (n.) Manner of reciting or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
- (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
- (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
- (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
- (n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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