| • | Rennet. See 3d Reed. | 
											
															| • | of Read | 
											
															| • | To advise; to counsel. | 
											
															| • | To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle. | 
											
															| • | To tell; to declare; to recite. | 
											
															| • | To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
   recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of
   language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to
   peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to
   read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a
   book. | 
											
															| • | Hence, to know fully; to comprehend. | 
											
															| • | To discover or understand by characters, marks, features,
   etc.; to learn by observation. | 
											
															| • | To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as,
   to read theology or law. | 
											
															| • | To give advice or counsel. | 
											
															| • | To tell; to declare. | 
											
															| • | To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over
   and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document. | 
											
															| • | To study by reading; as, he read for the bar. | 
											
															| • | To learn by reading. | 
											
															| • | To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or
   consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in
   the early manuscripts. | 
											
															| • | To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence
   reads queerly. | 
											
															| • | Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See
   Rede. | 
											
															| • | Reading. | 
											
															| • | imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i. | 
											
															| • | Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned. |