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