Definition of reading

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Reading (n.) The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

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Trample :: Trample (n.) The act of treading under foot; also, the sound produced by trampling..
Misread :: Misread (v. t.) To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.
Rotate :: Rotate (a.) Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as, a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalous corolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one..
Spatula :: Spatula (n.) An implement shaped like a knife, flat, thin, and somewhat flexible, used for spreading paints, fine plasters, drugs in compounding prescriptions, etc. Cf. Palette knife, under Palette..
Lectionary :: Lectionary (n.) A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service..
Spoil :: Spoil (v. t.) To render useless by injury; to injure fatally; to ruin; to destroy; as, to spoil paper; to have the crops spoiled by insects; to spoil the eyes by reading..
Dittology :: Dittology (n.) A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text..
Tramp :: Tramp (v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water..
Cheirosophy :: Cheirosophy (n.) The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.
Propaganda :: Propaganda (n.) Hence, any organization or plan for spreading a particular doctrine or a system of principles..
Pancratium :: Pancratium (n.) A genus of Old World amaryllideous bulbous plants, having a funnel-shaped perianth with six narrow spreading lobes. The American species are now placed in the related genus Hymenocallis..
Stonecutter :: Stonecrop (n.) Any low succulent plant of the genus Sedum, esp. Sedum acre, which is common on bare rocks in Europe, and is spreading in parts of America. See Orpine..
Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..
Respond :: Respond (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
Spread :: Spreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprea.
Riveting :: Riveting (n.) The act of joining with rivets; the act of spreading out and clinching the end, as of a rivet, by beating or pressing..
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Readable :: Readable (a.) Such as can be read; legible; fit or suitable to be read; worth reading; interesting.
Elocution :: Elocution (n.) Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution..
Hypocraterimorphous :: Hypocraterimorphous (a.) Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac..
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