> > However when I look it up in my Collin's Dictionary, there are two apparently contrary definitions.
> >
> > 1. To read or examine with care.
> > 2. To browse or read in a leisurely way (!)
>
> Bad dictionary! Bad! Bad! Bad! (Get the feeling I'm adamant about word definitions?)
>
> Webster's New World:
>
> 1. To read carefully; study
> 2. To read
>
> American Heritage:
>
> 1. To read or examine, especially with great care.
>
> Time to replace Collin's with one that doesn't adopt notorious verbal blunders as legitimate definitions. :-)

Right, because dictionaries are supposed to tell you the one, true meaning of a word, and never the meaning of a word that the person using it actually intended. Why, the latter could almost make a dictionary useful for more than just settling subtle and obscure points of word definitions. ;)


Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary:

1 a : to examine or consider with attention and in detail : STUDY b : to look over or through in a casual or cursory manner
2 : READ; especially : to read over in an attentive or leisurely manner


(I especially like definition 2 -- "attentive or leisurely". :)