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A proof reader.

The office of reader. Lyell.

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

One who spreads abroad. Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton.

One who fears, or lives in fear.

A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church.

One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [Eng.] Crabb.

A device for assisting in threading a needle.

One who treads. Isa. xvi. 10.

ae, it is mostly superseded by e. For most words found with this initial combination, the reader will therefore search under the letter E.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop…

A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

; splendor; glitter; great brighness, whether in a literal or figurative sense. With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought. Longfellow.

A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret.

inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

y the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

per or voice; the fort has command of the bridge. He assumed an absolute command over his readers. Druden.

One who reads copy to a proof reader.