(a) One who reads or peruses something written; (b) one who reads or recites aloud; (c) a clerk responsible for reading or expounding religious works; also, a reader at collation; (d) a cleric who reads the lessons in a church service; a cleric in the minor order of reader, lector; one who exercises similar functions in the Old Testament; a Jewish scribe [quot.: a1382]; (e) ?one who lectures; ?one who learns or reads; (f) one who interprets difficult or mysterious things; an interpreter of dreams; drem ~, one who interprets dreams or foretells the future from them [see also drem n.(2) 3.]; (g) an adviser, a counselor.