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n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A rick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2.
n.

Vapor; steam; smoke; fume. As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. Shak.

3.
v.

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. Macualay.


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