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Webster 1913 Edition

Reek

Reek

(rēk)
,
Noun.
A rick.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Reek

,
Noun.
[AS.
rēc
; akin to OFries.
rēk
, LG. & D.
rook
, G.
rauch
, OHG.
rouh
, Dan.
rög
, Sw.
rök
, Icel.
reykr
, and to AS.
reócan
to reek, smoke, Icel.
rjūka
, G.
riechen
to smell.]
Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
As hateful to me as the
reek
of a limekiln.
Shakespeare

Reek

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Reeked
(rēkt)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Reeking
.]
[As.
rēcan
. See
Reek
vapor.]
To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
Few chimneys
reeking
you shall espy.
Spenser.
I found me laid
In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun
Soon dried, and on the
reeking
moisture fed.
Milton.
The coffee rooms
reeked
with tobacco.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Reek

REEK

, n.
1.
Vapor; steam.
2.
A rick, which see.

REEK

,
Verb.
I.
[L. fragro. The primary sense is to send out or emit, to extend, to reach.]
To steam; to exhale; to emit vapor; applied especially to the vapor of certain moist substances, rather than to the smoke of burning bodies.
I found me laid in balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun soon dry'd, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Whose blood yet reeks on my avenging sword.

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