RECK
Etymology
Verb
reck (third-person singular simple present recks, present participle recking, simple past and past participle (obsolete) rought, raught or recked)
(transitive or intransitive, archaic) To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider.
(transitive or intransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern, to be important or earnest.
(intransitive, obsolete) To think.
Anagrams
• KREC
Source: Wiktionary
Reck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recked (obs. imp. Roughte); p. pr. & vb. n.
Recking.] Etym: [AS. reccan, remccan, to care for; akin to OS.
rokian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. rækja, also to E. reckon,
rake an implement. See Rake, and cf. Reckon.]
1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic]
This son of mine not recking danger. Sir P. Sidney.
And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. Burns.
2. To concern; -- used impersonally. [Poetic]
What recks it them Milton.
Reck, v. i.
Definition: To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often
followed by of. [Archaic]
Then reck I not, when I have lost my life. Chaucer.
I reck not though I end my life to-day. Shak.
Of me she recks not, nor my vain desire. M. Arnold.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition