1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Read.

2. (n.) The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.

3. (n.) Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.

4. (n.) A lecture; public recital.

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

6. (n.) Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.

7. (n.) An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.

8. (a.) of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

9. (a.) Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.

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