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Webster 1913 Edition
Reck
Reck
(rĕk)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Recked
(rĕkt)
(obs. imp.
Roughte
); p. pr. & vb. n.
Recking
.] 1.
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard.
[Archaic]
This son of mine not
recking
danger. Sir P. Sidney.
And may you better
Than ever did the adviser.
reck
the redeThan ever did the adviser.
Burns.
2.
To concern; – used impersonally.
[Poetic]
What
recks
it them? Milton.
Reck
(rĕk)
, Verb.
I.
To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; – often followed by of.
[Archaic]
Then
reck
I not, when I have lost my life. Chaucer.
I
reck
not though I end my life to-day. Shakespeare
Of me she
recks
not, nor my vain desire. M. Arnold.
Webster 1828 Edition
Reck
RECK
,Verb.
I.
To care; to mind; to rate at much; as we say, to reckon much of; followed by of. Obs.
Thou's but a lazy loorde, and recks much of thy swinke.
I reck as little what betideth me, as much I wish all good befortune you.
Of night or loneliness it recks me not.
RECK
,Verb.
T.
This son of mine not recking danger.
[This verb is obsolete unless in poetry. We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase, 'it recks me not,' that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind. To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]