readn. Rennet. See 3d Reed.()v. t.[OE. reden, rden, AS. rdan to read, advise, counsel, fr. rd advice, counsel, rdan (imperf. reord) to advise, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. ra, Goth. rdan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. rdh to succeed. 116. Cf. Riddle.]1. To advise; to counsel.()Therefore, I read thee, get thee to God's word, and thereby try all doctrine. (Tyndale.)2. To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.()3. To tell; to declare; to recite.()But read how art thou named, and of what kin. (Spenser.)4. 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.()Redeth [read ye] the great poet of Itaille. (Chaucer.)Well could he rede a lesson or a story. (Chaucer.)5. Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.()Who is't can read a woman? (Shak.)6. To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.()An armed corse did lie,
In whose dead face he read great magnanimity. (Spenser.)Those about her
From her shall read the perfect ways of honor. (Shak.)7. To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.()To read one's self in, to read aloud the Thirty-nine Articles and the Declaration of Assent, -- required of a clergyman of the Church of England when he first officiates in a new benefice.()v. i.1. To give advice or counsel.()2. To tell; to declare.(Spenser.)3. To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.()So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. (Neh. viii. 8.)4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.()5. To learn by reading.()I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. (Swift.)6. 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.()7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.()To read between the lines, to infer something different from what is plainly indicated; to detect the real meaning as distinguished from the apparent meaning.()n.[AS. rd counsel, fr. rdan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]1. Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.()[Read, v.]2. Reading.(Hume.)One newswoman here lets magazines for a penny a read. (Furnivall.) imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.()a. Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.()A poet . . . well read in Longinus. (Addison.)