These are the meanings of the letters DEAR when you unscramble them.
- Dare (n.)
A small fish; the dace.
- Dare (n.)
Defiance; challenge.
- Dare (n.)
The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness; dash.
- Dare (v. i.)
To have adequate or sufficient courage for any purpose; to be bold or venturesome; not to be afraid; to venture.
- Dare (v. i.)
To lurk; to lie hid.
- Dare (v. t.)
To challenge; to provoke; to defy.
- Dare (v. t.)
To have courage for; to attempt courageously; to venture to do or to undertake.
- Dare (v. t.)
To terrify; to daunt.
- Dear (adv.)
Dearly; at a high price.
- Dear (n.)
A dear one; lover; sweetheart.
- Dear (superl.)
Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive.
- Dear (superl.)
Hence, close to the heart; heartfelt; present in mind; engaging the attention.
- Dear (superl.)
Highly valued; greatly beloved; cherished; precious.
- Dear (superl.)
Marked by scarcity or dearth, and exorbitance of price; as, a dear year.
- Dear (superl.)
Of agreeable things and interests.
- Dear (superl.)
Of disagreeable things and antipathies.
- Dear (v. t.)
To endear.
- Read ()
imp. & p. p. of Read, v. t. & i.
- Read (a.)
Instructed or knowing by reading; versed in books; learned.
- Read (imp. & p. p.)
of Read
- Read (n.)
Rennet. See 3d Reed.
- Read (v.)
Reading.
- Read (v. i.)
To appear in writing or print; to be expressed by, or consist of, certain words or characters; as, the passage reads thus in the early manuscripts.
- Read (v. i.)
To give advice or counsel.
- Read (v. i.)
To learn by reading.
- Read (v. i.)
To perform the act of reading; to peruse, or to go over and utter aloud, the words of a book or other like document.
- Read (v. i.)
To produce a certain effect when read; as, that sentence reads queerly.
- Read (v. i.)
To study by reading; as, he read for the bar.
- Read (v. i.)
To tell; to declare.
- Read (v. t.)
Hence, to know fully; to comprehend.
- Read (v. t.)
Saying; sentence; maxim; hence, word; advice; counsel. See Rede.
- Read (v. t.)
To advise; to counsel.
- Read (v. t.)
To discover or understand by characters, marks, features, etc.; to learn by observation.
- 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.
- Read (v. t.)
To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
- Read (v. t.)
To make a special study of, as by perusing textbooks; as, to read theology or law.
- Read (v. t.)
To tell; to declare; to recite.