Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
2) n. - Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
3) n. - A lecture or prelection; public recital.
4) n. - The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
5) n. - Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
6) n. - An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
7) a. - Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
8) a. - Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
9) v. t. - To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
10) v. i. - To give advice or counsel.
11) v. i. - To tell; to declare.
12) 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.
13) v. i. - To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
14) v. i. - To learn by reading.
15) 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.
16) v. i. - To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
17) v. t. - Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
18) v. - Reading.
19) - imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
20) a. - Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.