Read
v. t.
To go over, as characters or words, and utter aloud, or
recite to one's self inaudibly; to take in the sense of, as of
language, by interpreting the characters with which it is expressed; to
peruse; as, to read a discourse; to read the letters of an alphabet; to
read figures; to read the notes of music, or to read music; to read a
book.