Emily Dickinson Lexicon

READ, v.i.

1. To perform the act of reading. So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense. – Neh. viii.
2. To be studious; to practice much reading. It is sure that Fleury reads. – Taylor.
3. To learn by reading. I hare read of an Eastern king who put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence. – Swift.
4. To tell; to declare. [Not in use.] – Spenser.