reck
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Is reck a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, intransitive (usually with of or for), archaic) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.Examples: "Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, / Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, / Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine, / Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, / And recks not his own rede."; "[…]with that care lost / went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse / he recked not[…]"; "Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!"archaictransitive
2. (catenative, archaic) To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.Examples: "My master is of churlish disposition, / And little recks to find the way to heaven / By doing deeds of hospitality."archaiccatenative
3. (intransitive with of, archaic) To know about, to know of, to be aware of.Examples: "Little recked the busy multitude in that great smoky town of Blackingham of the solemn glories of the fading woods, with all their mellow brown and crimson foliage; little dreamed they of gorgeous sunsets, purple clouds, roseate mists, and lingering lovely-coloured lights in mountain passes; […]"archaicintransitivewith-of
4. (transitive, obsolete) To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.obsoletetransitive
5. (ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.Examples: "It recks not!"; "What recks it them?"ambitransitivearchaicdialectal
6. (reflexive, obsolete, dialectal) To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.dialectalobsoletereflexive
Definition source: Wiktionary