Word Meanings - PERUSAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of carefully viewing or examining. Tatler. 2. The act of reading, especially of reading through or with care. Woodward.

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• READ
  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
• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• EXAMINABLE
  Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.
• READILY
  1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.
• EXAMINING
  Having power to examine; appointed to examine; as, an examining committee.
• READJUSTMENT
  A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.
• VIEW
  1. To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to inspect; to explore. O, let me view his visage, being dead. Shak. Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• READERSHIP
  The office of reader. Lyell.
• READER
  1. One who reads. Specifically: One whose distinctive office is to read prayers in a church. One who reads lectures on scientific subjects. Lyell. A proof reader. One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
• READJOURN
  To adjourn a second time; to adjourn again.
• CAREFULLY
  In a careful manner.
• READJUST
  To adjust or settle again; to put in a different order or relation; to rearrange.
• READABILITY
  The state of being readable; readableness.
• READMIT
  To admit again; to give entrance or access to again. Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to readmit the suppliant. Milton.
• EXAMINANT
  1. One who examines; an examiner. Sir W. Scott. 2. One who is to be examined. H. Prideaux.
• VIEWLESS
  Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. "Viewless winds." Shak. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air. Pope.
• THROUGH
  1. From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through. 2. From beginning to end; as, to read a letter through. 3. To the end; to a conclusion; to the ultimate purpose; as, to carry a project through. Note: Through was formerly used
• READMITTANCE
  Allowance to enter again; a second admission.
• READVERTENCY
  The act of adverting to again, or of reviewing. Norris.
• SELF-VIEW
  A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• BREADEN
  Made of bread.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• BREAD
  To spread. Ray.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• DEEP-READ
  Profoundly book-learned. "Great writers and deep-read men." L'Estrange.
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.