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