. A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
a. Braided [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Made of bread. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. an editor who prepares text for publication.
n. One who spreads abroad. [ 1913 Webster ]
Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. One who fears, or lives in fear. [ 1913 Webster ]
. (Eccl.) A layman authorized to read parts of the public service of the church. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
‖n. pl. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A group of butterflies which includes the satyrs. See Satyr, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. re- + L. adeptus, p. p. of adipisci to obtain. ] To regain; to recover. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A regaining; recovery of something lost. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. r&aemacr_;dere. ]
n. The office of reader. Lyell. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
n. (Law) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon. [ Eng. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Made of thread;
n.
n. One who treads. Isa. xvi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]