(rē′ding) noun
1. The act, practice or art of reading, in any sense of the verb; a public recital; the act of reading formally to a legislative body a bill, etc., proposed for adoption.
2. Literary research; study; scholarship.
3. Matter which is read or is designed to be read.
4. The indication of a graduated instrument, as a thermometer.
5. The form in which any passage or word appears in any copy of a work.
6. An interpretation, as of a riddle, or of any latent and hidden meaning; delineation; rendering. See synonyms under EDUCATION.
—adjective Pertaining to or suitable for reading.

(red′ing)
1. A county borough and county town of Berkshire, England.
2. A city on the Schuylkill River in SE Pennsylvania.