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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reck

Reck (rĕk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recked (rĕkt) (obs. imp. Roughte); p. pr. & vb. n. Recking.] [AS. reccan, rēcan, to care for; akin to OS. rōkian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. rækja, also to E. reckon, rake an implement. See Rake, and cf. Reckon.] 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 reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. Burns.

2. To concern; — used impersonally. [Poetic]

What recks it them? Milton.

Reck (rĕk), v. 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. Shak.

Of me she recks not, nor my vain desire. M. Arnold.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.