reading : Idioms & Phrases

• a book for teaching reading; a reader.

Webster 1913

• noun desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer
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WordNet

• a desk to support a book while reading; esp., a desk used while reading the service in a church.

Webster 1913

• a large lens with more or less magnifying power, attached to a handle, and used in reading, etc.

Webster 1913

• one who reads much; hence, in the English universities, a close, industrious student.

Webster 1913

• (Legislation), its normal recital, by the proper officer, before the House which is to consider it.

Webster 1913

• noun a room set aside for reading
  

WordNet

• a room appropriated to reading; a room provided with papers, periodicals, and the like, to which persons resort.

Webster 1913