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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[This verb is obsolete unless in poetry.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.]
Definition 2024
Reck
reck
reck
English
Alternative forms
- reak (obsolete)
Verb
reck (third-person singular simple present recks, present participle recking, simple past and past participle recked)
- (transitive) To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- this son of mine not recking danger
- Burns
- And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
- Ophelia:
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 136:
- She recks not now, as of old, whether her word carries with it the sting or the sweet—it is not now in her thought to ask whether pain or pleasure follows the thoughtless slight or the scornful pleasantry. The victim suffers, but she recks not of his grief.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
- Sir Philip Sidney
- (intransitive) To care; to matter.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, line 50:
- ...with that care lost
went all his fear: of God, or ****, or worse
he recked not...
- ...with that care lost
- 1822, John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio, vol. XIV
- Little thou reck'st[2] of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck[1] them more!
- 1900, Ernest Dowson, Villanelle of Marguerite's, lines 10-11
- She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
- With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II, line 50:
- To concern, to be important
- It recks not!
- Milton
- What recks it them?
- (intransitive, obsolete) To think.