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ho is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

rame, or case, usually with sloping top, but often with flat top, for the use writers and readers. It often has a drawer or repository underneath.

. . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

. Such productions of wit and humor as expose vice and folly, furnish useful diversion to readers. Addison.

er of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately

tedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram Shak.

h if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. De Quincey.

m, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence. Bp. Gardiner. Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. Hawthorne.

A compellative of respect, consideration, or conciliation; as, gentle reader. "Gentle sirs." "Gentle Jew." "Gentle servant." Shak.

-- Gill cover, Gill lid. See Operculum. -- Gill frame, or Gill head (Flax Manuf.), a spreader; a machine for subjecting flax to the action of gills. Knight. -- Gill net, a flat net so suspended in the water that its meshes allow the heads of fish to pass, but catch in the gills when they seek to extricate themselve…

Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious. "Hypercritical readers." Swift.

. Her majesty took a great dislike at the imprudent behavior of many of the ministers and readers. Strype.

A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.

f hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.

xtremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. Novels, by which the reader is misled into another sort of pieasure opposite to that which is designed in an epic poem. Dryden. Particles of speech have divers, and sometimes almost opposite, significations. Locke.

s (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. -- Money order. See under Money. -- Natural order. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. -- Order book. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered.

the pl.; also, a bill of particulars; a minute account; as, a particular of premises. The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. Ayliffe. Bill of particulars. See under Bill. -- In particular, specially; peculiarly. "This, in particular, happens to the lungs." Blackmore. -- To go into part…

on a card. (b) (Weaving) One of the perforated cards in a Jacquard apparatus. -- Pattern reader, one who arranges textile patterns. -- Pattern wheel (Horology), a count-wheel.

Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.

A reader of lectures or discourses; a lecturer. Sheldon.