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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Monkey-bread :: Monkey-bread (n.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia..
Sow :: Sow (v. t.) To scatter, as seed, upon the earth; to plant by strewing; as, to sow wheat. Also used figuratively: To spread abroad; to propagate..
Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..
Run :: Run (a.) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
Threader :: Threader (n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
Offertory :: Offertory (n.) That part of the Mass which the priest reads before uncovering the chalice to offer up the elements for consecration.
Aptness :: Aptness (n.) Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others..
Tremendous :: Tremendous (a.) Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall..
Bread :: Bread (n.) An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking..
Strip :: Strip (v. i.) To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut. See Strip, v. t., 8..
Rolly-poly :: Rolly-poly (n.) A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled into a cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed..
Emendation :: Emendation (n.) Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better reading; removal of errors or corruptions from a document; as, the book might be improved by judicious emendations..
Ready-witted :: Ready-witted (a.) Having ready wit.
Screw :: Screw (n.) A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or,
Thrum :: Thrum (n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
Breadstuff :: Breadstuff (n.) Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made..
Hygroscopic :: Hygroscopic (a.) Having the property of readily inbibing moisture from the atmosphere, or of the becoming coated with a thin film of moisture, as glass, etc..
Agrise :: Agrise (v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
Silk :: Silk (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material..
Toast :: Toast (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread..
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