Definition of reading

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

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Patent :: Patent (a.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf..
Perusal :: Perusal (n.) The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care..
Candroy :: Candroy (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
Aspersion :: Aspersion (n.) The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny..
Pause :: Pause (n.) In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses..
Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence..
Treadmill :: Treadmill (n.) A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It is used principally as a means of prison discipline. Also, a mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt..
Lection :: Lection (n.) A reading; a variation in the text.
Well-read :: Well-read (a.) Of extensive reading; deeply versed; -- often followed by in.
Canker :: Canker (n.) A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth; -- called also water canker, canker of the mouth, and noma..
Patulous :: Patulous (a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers..
Squarroso-dentate :: Squarrose (a.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell..
Numeration :: Numeration (n.) The act or art of reading numbers when expressed by means of numerals. The term is almost exclusively applied to the art of reading numbers written in the scale of tens, by the Arabic method..
Phagedena :: Phagedena (n.) Spreading, obstinate ulceration..
Read :: Read (v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar..
Reading :: Reading (a.) Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
Letterpress :: Letterpress (n.) Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells..
Divaricate :: Divaricate (a.) Diverging; spreading asunder; widely diverging.
Diffusive :: Diffusive (a.) Having the quality of diffusing; capable of spreading every way by flowing; spreading widely; widely reaching; copious; diffuse.
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