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Reek   /rik/   Listen
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Reek  v. i.  (past & past part. reeked; pres. part. reeking)  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." "I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed." "The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco."



noun
Reek  n.  A rick. (Obs.)



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






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"Reek" Quotes from Famous Books



... as he sat with Hagthorpe and Wolverstone over a pipe and a bottle of rum in the stifling reek of tar and stale tobacco of a waterside tavern, he was accosted by a splendid ruffian in a gold-laced coat of dark-blue satin with a crimson sash, a ...
— Captain Blood • Rafael Sabatini

... her tinderly wid honey-dew, afther letting the reek av the Canteen plug die away. But 'tis no good, thanks to you all the same, fillin' my pouch wid your chopped hay. Canteen baccy's like the Army. It shpoils a man's taste ...
— Soldier Stories • Rudyard Kipling

... young heads, a crowd of children who would love you with pure hands, unsullied lips, tender limbs, stainless as if fresh from a bath of milk. To kiss a child's cheek is to kiss its soul. A child alone can say your name without befouling it. In later years our lips grow tainted and reek of our passions. Even I, who love you so much, and have given myself to you, I dare not at all times call on you, for I would not let you come in contact with the impurities of my manhood. I have prayed and chastised my flesh, I have slept in ...
— Abbe Mouret's Transgression - La Faute De L'abbe Mouret • Emile Zola

... Presently a reek of blue smoke was issuing from the crook of pipe above the roof, and wood was crackling in the stove. Old Man Haley, mindful of his guest's dignities and claims upon himself, set about the preparation of a ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner

... odour; cedars of Lebanon and harem musk; tang of the sandy sea, fume of the street; the trail of smoke and onions; the milk of goats; the reek of humanity; the breath of kine. Make a bundle of that, and tie it with the silken lashes of women's eyes; secure it with the steel of a needle-pointed knife—and leave it ...
— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest


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