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Read
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To give advice or counsel.
(2):
(n.) Rennet. See 3d Reed.
(3):
(imp. & p. p.) of Read
(4):
(v. i.) To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
(5):
(v. i.) To tell; to declare.
(6):
(v. t.) To advise; to counsel.
(7):
(v. t.) To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
(8):
(v. t.) To tell; to declare; to recite.
(9):
(v. t.) 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.
(10):
(v. t.) Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
(11):
(v. t.) To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
(12):
(v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
(13):
(v. i.) 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.
(14):
(v. i.) To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
(15):
(v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
(16):
(v. i.) To learn by reading.
(17):
(a.) Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
(18):
imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
(19):
(v. t.) Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
(20):
(v.) Reading.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Read'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/read.html. 1828.
