The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ready \Read"y\, n.
   Ready money; cash; -- commonly with the; as, he was well
   supplied with the ready. [Slang]
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         Lord Strut was not flush in ready, either to go to law,
         or to clear old debts.                   --Arbuthnot.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ready \Read"y\, v. t.
   To dispose in order. [Obs.] --Heywood.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ready \Read"y\ (r[e^]d"[y^]), a. [Compar. Readier
   (r[e^]d"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Readiest.] [AS. r[=ae]de; akin
   to D. gereed, bereid, G. bereit, Goth. gar['a]ids fixed,
   arranged, and possibly to E. ride, as meaning originally,
   prepared for riding. Cf. Array, 1st Curry.]
   1. Prepared for what one is about to do or experience;
      equipped or supplied with what is needed for some act or
      event; prepared for immediate movement or action; as, the
      troops are ready to march; ready for the journey. "When
      she redy was." --Chaucer.
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   2. Fitted or arranged for immediate use; causing no delay for
      lack of being prepared or furnished. "Dinner was ready."
      --Fielding.
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            My oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things
            are ready: come unto the marriage.    --Matt. xxii.
                                                  4.
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   3. Prepared in mind or disposition; not reluctant; willing;
      free; inclined; disposed.
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            I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at
            Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus. --Acts
                                                  xxi. 13.
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            If need be, I am ready to forego
            And quit.                             --Milton.
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   4. Not slow or hesitating; quick in action or perception of
      any kind; dexterous; prompt; easy; expert; as, a ready
      apprehension; ready wit; a ready writer or workman. "Ready
      in devising expedients." --Macaulay.
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            Gurth, whose temper was ready, though surly. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.
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   5. Offering itself at once; at hand; opportune; convenient;
      near; easy. "The readiest way." --Milton.
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            A sapling pine he wrenched from out the ground,
            The readiest weapon that his fury found. --Dryden.
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   6. On the point; about; on the brink; near; -- with a
      following infinitive.
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            My heart is ready to crack.           --Shak.
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   7. (Mil.) A word of command, or a position, in the manual of
      arms, at which the piece is cocked and held in position to
      execute promptly the next command, which is, aim.
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   All ready, ready in every particular; wholly equipped or
      prepared. "[I] am all redy at your hest." --Chaucer.

   Ready money, means of immediate payment; cash. "'T is all
      the ready money fate can give." --Cowley.

   Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating
      computations, as of interest, prices, etc.

   To make ready, to make preparation; to get in readiness.
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   Syn: Prompt; expeditious; speedy; unhesitating; dexterous;
        apt; skillful; handy; expert; facile; easy; opportune;
        fitted; prepared; disposed; willing; free; cheerful. See
        Prompt.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ready \Read"y\ (r[e^]d"[y^]), adv.
   In a state of preparation for immediate action; so as to need
   no delay.
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         We ourselves will go ready armed.        --Num. xxxii.
                                                  17.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ready
    adj 1: completely prepared or in condition for immediate action
           or use or progress; "get ready"; "she is ready to
           resign"; "the bridge is ready to collapse"; "I am ready
           to work"; "ready for action"; "ready for use"; "the soup
           will be ready in a minute"; "ready to learn to read"
           [ant: unready]
    2: (of especially money) immediately available; "he seems to
       have ample ready money"; "a ready source of cash"
    3: mentally disposed; "he was ready to believe her"
    4: made suitable and available for immediate use; "dinner is
       ready"
    5: apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity; "a
       quick mind"; "a ready wit" [syn: quick, ready]
    n 1: poised for action; "their guns were at the ready"
    v 1: prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner,
         please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for
         the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, ready, make,
         prepare]
    2: make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular
       purpose or for some use, event, etc; "Get the children ready
       for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town
       after I paid the hotel bill" [syn: fix, prepare, set
       up, ready, gear up, set]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

439 Moby Thesaurus words for "ready":
   Daedalian, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, about, accessible,
   accordant, acquiescent, active, acute, adaptable, adept, adjusted,
   adroit, affirmative, agape, agile, agog, agreeable, agreeing,
   alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, all ready, all set, all-around,
   amenable, animated, anticipant, anticipating, anticipative,
   anticipatory, anxious, apprentice, approving, apt, apt to, arch,
   ardent, armed, armed and ready, arrange, artful, artistic,
   assenting, astute, at hand, attentive, authoritative, available,
   avid, awaiting, awake, booted and spurred, brace, bravura, break,
   break in, breathless, breed, briefed, bright, brilliant, bring up,
   bursting to, cagey, calculated to, canny, cash, certain, cheerful,
   clairvoyant, clean, clear for action, clear the decks, clever,
   close at hand, close to, coached, cobble, cocked, commission,
   compliable, compliant, condition, confident, consentient,
   consenting, content, convenient, cooperative, coordinated, cordial,
   crack, crackerjack, crafty, cultivate, cunning, cure, cute, daedal,
   darn, deceitful, decisive, deep, deep-laid, deft, deploy,
   designing, desirous, develop, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic,
   discipline, dispatchful, disposed, disposed to, divinatory, do up,
   docile, doctor, dress, drill, dynamic, eager, educable, endorsing,
   enthusiastic, equip, equipped, excellent, exercise, expectant,
   expecting, expeditious, expert, facile, fain, familiarized, fancy,
   farseeing, farsighted, favorable, favorably disposed,
   favorably inclined, feline, fetch up, fit, fit out, fix, fix up,
   forearmed, forehanded, foreknowing, foreseeing, foresighted,
   forestalling, forethoughted, forethoughtful, forewarned, form,
   formable, fortify, forward, foster, foxy, friendly, full of life,
   game, gaping, genial, get, get ready, given, given to, good,
   good and ready, goodish, graceful, gracious, groom, groomed,
   guileful, handy, happy, hopeful, house-train, housebreak,
   immediate, impatient, impressionable, improve, in anticipation,
   in arms, in battle array, in condition, in danger of,
   in expectation, in position, in readiness, in the mind,
   in the mood, in the saddle, inclined, inclined to, informed,
   ingenious, insidious, instant, instantaneous, instructable,
   intelligent, intuitive, inventive, keen, knowing, liable,
   liable to, lick into shape, likely, likely to, live, lively,
   loaded, loaded for bear, longsighted, looking for,
   looking forward to, make, make arrangements, make preparations,
   make ready, make up, malleable, marshal, masterful, masterly,
   mature, mend, minded, minded to, mobilize, mobilized, moldable,
   money, motivated, neat, nimble, no mean, not surprised,
   nothing loath, nurse, nurture, of all work, on call, on deck,
   on hand, on tap, on the, on the alert, on the ball, on the job,
   on the mark, optimistic, organize, overhaul, panting, patch,
   patch up, pawky, perceptive, permissive, plan, planned, plastic,
   pliable, pliant, poised, politic, practice, prearrange,
   prearranged, precognitive, precognizant, predisposed,
   predisposed to, prep, prepare, prepared, prepared and ready,
   prepped, prescient, pretreat, primed, process, professional,
   proficient, prompt, prone, prone to, provide, provided, provident,
   providential, prudent, psyched up, punctual, put in commission,
   put in order, put in repair, put in shape, put in tune,
   put to school, qualified, qui vive, quick, quite some, raise,
   rapid, raring to, ratifying, ready and willing, ready for anything,
   ready to, ready up, rear, recap, receptive, recondition, rehearse,
   repair, resourceful, responsive, retread, ripe,
   ripe for instruction, sagacious, sanctioning, sanguine, scheming,
   schoolable, send to school, serpentine, service, set,
   set to rights, settle preliminaries, sew up, sharp, shifty, shrewd,
   skilled, skillful, sleepless, slick, slippery, sly, smart, smooth,
   snaky, sneaky, some, sophistical, speedy, spirited, spry,
   statesmanlike, stealthy, steel, strategic, strengthen, stylish,
   subject to, submissive, subtile, subtle, summary, supple, sure,
   susceptible, swift, tactful, tactical, take in hand, tan,
   teachable, the compleat, the complete, thirsty for knowledge,
   timely, tinker, tinker up, to hand, tractable, train, trainable,
   treat, trickish, tricksy, tricky, trim, try out, unblinking,
   ungrudging, unloath, unnodding, unrefusing, unreluctant,
   unsleeping, unsurprised, unwinking, up, up in arms, versatile,
   vigilant, virtuoso, vital, vivacious, vivid, vulpine, waiting,
   waiting for, wakeful, wary, watching for, well-disposed, well-done,
   well-inclined, well-prepared, wherewithal, wide-awake, willed,
   willing, willinghearted, wily, workmanlike, zealous, zestful