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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A rick. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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