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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Mistreading :: Mistreading (n.) Misstep; misbehavior.
Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers..
Squarroso-dentate :: Squarrose (a.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell..
Explanate :: Explanate (a.) Spreading or extending outwardly in a flat form.
Ambo :: Ambo (n.) A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches..
Treading :: Treading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Trea.
Read :: Read (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..
Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it..
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..
Liverwort :: Liverwort (n.) A flowerless plant (Marchantia polymorpha), having an irregularly lobed, spreading, and forking frond..
Calling :: Calling (n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies..
Pound :: Pound (n.) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward..
Dilated :: Dilated (a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
Effuse :: Effuse (a.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells..
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..
Bookish :: Bookish (a.) Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
Inundation :: Inundation (n.) The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds..
Skip :: Skip (v. t.) To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson..
Read :: Read (v. i.) To study by reading; as, he read for the bar..
Lectionary :: Lectionary (n.) A book, or a list, of lections, for reading in divine service..
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