Read \Read\, v. i.
   1. To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
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   2. To tell; to declare. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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   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.
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            So they read in the book of the law of God
            distinctly, and gave the sense.       --Neh. viii.
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   4. To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
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   5. To learn by reading.
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            I have read of an Eastern king who put a judge to
            death for an iniquitous sentence.     --Swift.
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   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.
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   7. To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence
      reads queerly.
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   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.
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