Category:Reading

Read"ing, n.

1. The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter To be read.

2. Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive Reading.

3. A lecture or prelection; public recital. The jews had their weekly readings of the law. Hooker.

4. The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage Presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.

5. Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of Rendering. [cant]

6. An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, The reading of a barometer. Reading of a bill (legislation), its Normal recital, by the proper officer, before the house which is to Consider it.

Reading Read"ing, a.

1. Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.

2. Addicted to reading; as, a reading community. Reading book, a book For teaching reading; a reader. -- reading desk, a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a Desk used while reading the service in a church. -- reading glass, a large lens with more or less magnifying power, Attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc. -- reading man, one who reads much; hence, in the english Universities, a close, industrious student. -- reading room, a room appropriated to reading; a room provided With papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.