Definition of reading

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Reading (n.) A lecture or prelection; public recital.

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Reading :: Reading (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence..
Salver-shaped :: Salver-shaped (a.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous..
Lecturn :: Lecturn (n.) A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern.].
Bookish :: Bookish (a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
Reading :: Reading (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.
Pounce :: Pounce (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript..
Deployment :: Deployment (n.) The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
Dilated :: Dilated (a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
Limb :: Limb (n.) The border or upper spreading part of a monopetalous corolla, or of a petal, or sepal; blade..
Candroy :: Candroy (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
Adansonia :: Adansonia (n.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth..
Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries..
Ambo :: Ambo (n.) A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches..
Semination :: Semination (n.) The act of sowing or spreading.
Liverwort :: Liverwort (n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond..
Mistreading :: Mistreading (n.) Misstep; misbehavior.
Reading :: Reading (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer..
, A , Or An . Pcp. It Is Presumably An Older Spelling Of Scanned. --2. :: , a , or an . PCP. It is presumably an older spelling of scanned. --2. () Specifically (Pros.), to go through with, as a verse, marking and distinguishing the feet of which it is composed; to show, in reading, the metrical structure of; to recite metrically..
Back :: Back (adv.) To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it..
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