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READ, v.2 and sb.2 Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. Also written rede Sc. Wxf. N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 Cum. Wm. n.Yks.2 e.Yks. nw.Der.1 Sus.; reed Sc. (Jam.) Glo.1 Glo.2; and in forms red Sc. Nhb.1 Dur.; redd Sc. Der. Lin. [rīd, red.] 1. v. To advise, counsel; to warn. Sc. I redd ye, Earnscliffe,.. let us take a cast about, Scott Blk. Dwarf (1816) iii. Abd. I rede you gang to Aberdeen, Ogg Willie Waly (1873) 81. Frf. Flee, flee, ye vagues, I redd ye, flee, Sands Poems (1833) 86. Per. I rede ye, owre an' owre again, To tak' the use o' what's your ain, Haliburton Dunbar (1895) 14. Dmb. I red you, be your need whate'er it may, You'll reach no ferry-post till break of day, Salmon Gowodean (1868) 18. s.Sc. I wadna redd ye to interrupt us, lad, Wilson Tales (1836) IV. 12. Ayr. I rede you tent her e'e, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 106; I red ye weel, tak care o' skaith, Burns Death and Dr. Hornbook (1785) st. 9. Lnk. Coghill Poems (1890) 46. Lth. Ballantine Poems (1856) 98. Edb. Wife, I rede ye to be tentie, McDowall Poems (1830) 199. Slk. Sae I rede ye to haud your tongues, Hogg Tales (1838) 366, ed. 1866. Dmf. Quinn Heather (1863) 33. Gall. I rede ye tak' your warnin' noo, Crockett Kit Kennedy (1899) 64. N.Cy.1 Nhb. I rede that maid beware, Dixon Sngs. Eng. Peas. (1846) 84, ed. 1857. Cum. I rede ye, master, dinna gan', Burn Ballads (ed. 1877) 43. Cum., Wm. Nicolson (1677) Trans. R. Soc. Lit. (1868) IX. n.Yks.2, s.Lan.1 Der. He is comen from farre, I redd rest him a while, Halliwell Pal. Anthol. (1850) 230. Hence Red(e, ppl. adj. advised, warned; aware, certain. Abd. Faith I'm red, for a' your skill, He'll leave you i' the lurch, Beattie Parings (1801) 30, ed. 1873. Fif. Sic trade Spells muckle stuff, an ye're no rede, Douglas Poems (1806) 123. Rnf. I'm redd that ye might weel be shent For thriftless hours, Picken Poems (1813) I. 4. Ayr. Davie, lad, I'm red ye're glaikit, Burns 2nd Ep. to Davie, st. 3. Edb. I'm rede they gie ye there a logic dose, An' gar ye teach, Learmont Poems (1791) 219. 2. To explain, solve. Sc. But ye maun read my riddle, she said; And answer my questions three; And but ye read them right, she said, Gae stretch ye out and die, Scott Minstrelsy (ed. 1803) III. 276 (Jam.). ne.Sc. Mony a ane gets their dreams redd in a wye they little thocht o', Green Gordonhaven (1887) 51. Lnk. Ah! now my dream is red, Ramsay Poems (1800) IX. 9 (JAM.). Slk. I get the maist o' my dreams redd, Hogg Tales (1838) 318, ed. 1866. Dmf. I dreamed a dreary thing, master, Whilk I am rad ye rede, Cromek Remains (1810) 236. n.Ir. There's yer dreem redd this minit, Lyttle Paddy McQuillan 76. Wm. Floors of England, frewts o' Spain, Mixt tagidder wi' a shoor o' rain, A hardin jacket, a hempen string, If thoo'll rede that, thoo's wise as a king (B.K.). [Now rede me aright the most wonderful sight, Thou Palmer Grey, that thine eyes have seen, Barham Ingoldsby (1840) 65.] 3. To predict, foretell. Sc. But and this black hour be past, I rede ye'll rue it sair, Jamieson Pop. Ballads (1806) I. 237. Abd. She's sure 'twill happen as ye read, Shirrefs Poems (1790) 122. Ayr. My weird will be ill to rede, Ballads and Sngs. (1847) II. 106. w.Som.1 Aay kn rai·d ee·z faur·teen saa·f unuuf [I can surely predict his fortune]. 4. To suppose, imagine. Abd. He's ane, I red, that ye can eithly spare, Shirrefs Poems (1790) 86; Gude wife, I reed your tale is true, An' I ne'er kent my wife's extract ere now, Ross Helenore (1768) 122 (Jam.); I reed 'twas they that me a-dreaming set, ROSS Helenore 125. Lnk. Now's the time I red, O' moon, whan they are wont to gang to bed, Black Falls of Clyde (1806) 124. 5. To judge of, guess, estimate. w.Yks.1 Glo. At what price do you read this horse? Grose (1790); Glo.1 6. To understand, perceive, comprehend fully; to see through; to estimate truly. w.Yks. (J.W.), w.Yks.1 Lan.1 Aw con read that as ne'er wur printed. ‘They're seechin' summat, bith look on 'em.’ ‘Nay,.. aw connot read yon,’ Waugh Dulesgate (1867) 29. s.Lan.1 n.Lin.1 His muther duz n't knaw what he's maade on, bud I can reäd him strīght off to be noht bud an idled leein' good-for-noht. w.Som.1 Anybody could read 'ee. Why, can zee wet 'pon the face o' un. 7. To be cautious, beware. Ayr. Dogs wha hae a kintra's hate Sou'd redd weel wha they bark at, Ainslie Land of Burns (ed. 1892) 130. 8. Phr. (1) to read off, to discourse fluently; to scold, find fault with; (2) read one one's character, to give one a scolding, to tell plainly what is thought of one's character; (3) read out, (a) to finish reading; (b) to excommunicate, to turn out of a church or sect; (4) read the cups, to foretell by means of the grounds left in tea-cups; (5) read the riot act, to give emphatic or drastic orders, to tell authoritatively; to scold; to threaten to thrash a person. (1) n.Yks., e.Yks. Bygow, sha did rede of i style. Mihi, b't he did rede of i grand style (W.H.). (2) Sh.I. A'll read dem der karater, or dan my name is no Sibbie Arter, Sh. News (July 23, 1898). (3, a) Lan. After dutys I read out wt remained to be read in Rushworth, Newcome Diary (1662) in Cheth. Soc. Publ. (1849) XVIII. 120; Read out ye senseles poem Hudibras, Cheth. Soc. Publ. 156. (b) n.Yks. Read him out o' t'chotch (I.W.). Cor. He left the ‘people,’ that he mightn't be read out, Hunt Pop. Rom. w.Eng. (1865) 104, ed. 1896. (4) Sc. Still practised by young females in Scotland out of frolic... In any of the residuum of the tea-leaves which may have subsided at the bottom of the cup of tea there is fancied to be seen representations of utensils in trade, horses, cows, coaches, houses, castles, &c., of the future husband. A piece of the woody fibre of the tea, which may be accidentally swimming in the liquid, is named a ‘stranger,’ and is taken out and bitten between the teeth: if found to be hard, it is a male, if soft, a female; and if large or small indicates the tallness or shortness of some person expected to visit that day at the house, N. & Q. (1854) 1st S. x. 534. Sh.I. Oh! Hanna, Fader bliss dee an' read wis a cup, laek a güde sowl, Sh. News (July 7, 1900). Dmf. She read me the cups but yestreen, And says, that it's sic a sure matter, Objections are no worth a preen, Johnstone Poems (1820) 128. Cum. A lucky cup; and reads it well ─ A courtship and a wedding, Burn Ballads (ed. 1877) 87. (5) w.Yks. If tə duz ðat əgiən, al rīd ðī t'raiət akt ən reit ən ǫəl (J.W.). Nrf. We shall hear when the lord come ─ he'll read the riot act pretty right you'll see, Emerson Son of Fens (1892) 143. 9. To match, correspond. Suf. Read along of a thing (C.T.). 10. sb. Advice, counsel, warning. Sc. To a red man, rede thy rede, With a brown man break thy bread, At a pale man draw thy knife, From a black man keep thy wife, Montgomerie-Fleming Notes on Jam. (1899). Sh.I. Little wisdom could we see, an little redd, Burgess Rasmie (1892) 112. Frf. Despise all rede, and court their dede, Lowson Guidfollow (1890) 243. Fif. I hae na better rede to gie, Tennant Papistry (1827) 105. Ayr. This reade shall guide me to the end, Ballads and Sngs. (1846) I. 29. Lnk. The forward bairns, that winna hear A parent's canny redd, Watson Poems (1853) 30. Gall. She... rues the rede o' gamin', Nicholson Poet. Wks. (1814) 138, ed. 1897. N.Cy.1 Nhb.1 ‘Short rede is good rede.’ The proverb is specially associated with the death of Walcher, the first Bishop of Durham appointed by William the Conqueror. At Gateshead the bishop had met the leaders of the people, and on retiring to the church the cry was raised, ‘Short rede, good rede, slay ye the bishop.’ The church was thereupon set on fire, and the bishop was slain. Dur. Denham Tracts (ed. 1892) 97. Glo.1 Glo.2 Sus. To the husbandman toiling early and late her rede goeth forth, Hoskyns Talpa (1852) 181, ed. 1857. Hence (1) Redeless, adj., obs., helpless, unwilling to take advice; (2) Redesman, sb., obs., an adviser. (1) Yks. Archaic Wds. in Yks. Wkly. Post (1880-1889) No. 23. (2) Wxf. Hall Ireland (1841) II. 161. 11. Determination, resolve. nw.Der.1 If he taes rede t'do it. 12. A reading, perusal. Sc. Will ye gie me a read of that book? (Jam.) ne.Sc. I ha'e brought ye a read o' the [news] paper, Gordon Northward Ho (1894) 90. [1. OE. rǣdan, to counsel, give advice. 10. OE. rǣd, counsel, advice [B.T.).]

READ, see Red, adj., Red(d, v.1, sb.2, Ride.