·noun A lecture or prelection; public recital.
II. Reading ·adj Addicted to reading; as, a reading community.
III. Reading ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Read.
IV. Reading ·adj Of or pertaining to the act of reading; used in reading.
V. Reading ·noun Study of books; literary scholarship; as, a man of extensive reading.
VI. Reading ·noun Manner of reciting, or acting a part, on the stage; way of rendering.
VII. Reading ·noun The act of one who reads; perusal; also, printed or written matter to be read.
VIII. Reading ·noun An observation read from the scale of a graduated instrument; as, the reading of a barometer.
IX. Reading ·noun The way in which anything reads; force of a word or passage presented by a documentary authority; lection; version.