[ready] adj read.i.er ; -est [ME redy; akin to OE geraede ready, Goth garaiths arranged] (13c) 1 a: prepared mentally or physically for some experience or action b: prepared for immediate use "dinner is ~"
2. a: willingly disposed: inclined "~ to agree to his proposal" b: likely to do something indicated "a house that looks ~ to collapse"
3: displayed readily and spontaneously "a ~ wit"
4: immediately available "had little ~ cash" syn see quick -- read.i.ness n -- at the ready : ready for immediate use "kept their guns at the ready"
[2]ready vt read.ied ; ready.ing (14c): to make ready