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   Read , n. Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]
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   Read , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Read ; p. pr. & vb. n. Reading.] [OE. reden, ræden, AS. rǣdan to read, advise, counsel, fr. rǣd advice, counsel, rǣdan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. rāða, Goth. rēdan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. rādh to succeed. √116. Cf. Riddle.]
   To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.
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   Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine.
   Tyndale.
   
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   To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
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   To tell; to declare; to recite. [Obs.]
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   But read how art thou named, and of what kin.
   Spenser.
   
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   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.
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   Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Well could he rede a lesson or a story.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
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   Who is't can read a woman?
   Shak.
   
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   To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
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   An armed corse did lie,
   In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.
   Spenser.
   
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   Those about her
   From her shall read the perfect ways of honor.
   Shak.
   
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   To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
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   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.
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   Read, v. i.
   To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
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   To tell; to declare. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   
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   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. 8.
   
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   To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
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   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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   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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   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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   Read, n. [AS. rǣd counsel, fr. rǣdan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]
   Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede. [Obs.]
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   [Read, v.] Reading. [Colloq.]
   Hume.
   
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   One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read.
   Furnivall.
   
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   Read , imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
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   Read , 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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