Definition of read

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Read (v. t.) To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law..

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Ready :: Ready (n.) Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well supplied with the ready..
Intuition :: Intuition (n.) Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from mediate knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension..
Hand :: Hand (n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses..
Dropworm :: Dropworm (n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm..
Impanate :: Impanate (a.) Embodied in bread, esp. in the bread of the eucharist..
Fancy :: Fancy (n.) The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination..
Juger :: "Juger (n.) A Roman measure of land, measuring 28,800 square feet, or 240 feet in length by 120 in breadth..
Bobbin :: Bobbin (n.) A spool or reel of various material and construction, with a head at one or both ends, and sometimes with a hole bored through its length by which it may be placed on a spindle or pivot. It is used to hold yarn or thread, as in spinning or warping machines, looms, sewing machines, etc..
Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect, or make ready for future use; to prepare..
Indigestible :: Indigestible (a.) Not digestible; not readily soluble in the digestive juices; not easily convertible into products fitted for absorption.
Alkaloid :: Alkaloid (n.) An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals..
Outdoors :: Outdoors (adv.) Abread; out of the house; out of doors.
Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..
Spunk :: Spunk (n.) Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou..
Harvest :: Harvest (n.) That which is reaped or ready to be reaped or gath//ed; a crop, as of grain (wheat, maize, etc.), or fruit..
Spermatozoid :: Spermatozoid (n.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid..
Trodden :: Trodden () p. p. of Tread.
Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries..
Secondhand :: Secondhand (a.) Not new; already or previously or used by another; as, a secondhand book, garment..
Meat :: Meat (n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat..
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