8 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Retch \Retch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Retched}; p. pr & vb n.
{Retching}.] [AS. hr?can to clear the throat, hawk, fr hraca
throat; akin to G. rachen, and perhaps to E. rack neck.]
To make an effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting.
[Written also {reach}.]
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew
inarticulate with retching.) --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reach \Reach\, n.
An effort to vomit. [R.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reach \Reach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reached}({Raught}, the old
preterit, is obsolete); p. pr & vb n. {Reaching}.] [OE.
rechen AS r[=ae]can, r[=ae]cean, to extend, stretch out
akin to D. reiken G. reichen and possibly to AS r[=i]ce
powerful, rich, E. rich. [root]115.]
1. To extend; to stretch; to thrust out to put forth, as a
limb, a member, something held, or the like
Her tresses yellow, and long straughten, Unto her
heeles down they raughten --Rom. of R.
Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side
--John xx 27.
Fruit trees, over woody, reached too far Their
pampered boughs. --Milton.
2. Hence to deliver by stretching out a member, especially
the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to
hand over as to reach one a book.
He reached me a full cap. --2 Esd. xiv.
39.
3. To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; too
extend some part of the body, or something held by one so
as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like as to reach an
object with the hand, or with a spear.
O patron power, . . . thy present aid afford, Than I
may reach the beast. --Dryden.
4. To strike, hit, or tough with a missile; as to reach an
object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
5. Hence to extend an action effort, or influence to to
penetrate to to pierce, or cut, as far as
If these examples of grown men reach not the case of
children, let them examine. --Locke.
6. To extend to to stretch out as far as to touch by virtue
of extent; as his hand reaches the river.
Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches
blame. --Milton.
7. To arrive at by effort of any kind to attain to to gain;
to be advanced to
The best account of the appearances of nature which
human penetration can reach, comes short of its
reality. --Cheyne.
9. To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.]
Do what sir? I reach you not --Beau. & Fl
10. To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reach \Reach\, n.
1. The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of
reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or
something held or thrown; as the fruit is beyond my
reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
2. The power of stretching out or extending action
influence, or the like power of attainment or management;
extent of force or capacity.
Drawn by others who had deeper reaches than
themselves to matters which they least intended.
--Hayward.
Be sure yourself and your own reach to know --Pope.
3. Extent; stretch; expanse; hence application; influence;
result; scope.
And on the left hand, hell, With long reach,
interposed. --Milton.
I am to pray you not to strain my speech To grosser
issues, nor to larger reach Than to suspicion.
--Shak.
4. An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a
straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to
another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an
arm of the sea extending up into the land. ``The river's
wooded reach.'' --Tennyson.
The coast . . . is very full of creeks and reaches.
--Holland.
5. An article to obtain an advantage.
The Duke of Parma had particular reaches and ends of
his own underhand to cross the design. --Bacon.
6. The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the
forward bolster of a wagon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Reach \Reach\, v. t.
1. To stretch out the hand.
Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste!
--Milton.
2. To strain after something to make efforts.
Reaching above our nature does no good. --Dryden.
3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action influence,
etc., so as to touch, attain to or be equal to
something
And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top
of it reached to heaven. --Gen. xxviii.
12.
The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.
--Boyle.
4. (Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking
to another, or with the ind nearly abeam.
{To reach after} or {at}, to make efforts to attain to or
obtain.
He would be in the mind reaching after a positive
idea of infinity. --Locke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
reach
n 1: the limits within which something can be effective; "he was
beyond the range of their fire" [syn: {range}]
2: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or
control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of
municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this
article"; within the scope of an investigation"; "outside
the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world
power" [syn: {scope}, {range}, {orbit}, {compass}, {ambit}]
3: the act of physically reaching or thrusting out [syn: {reaching},
{stretch}]
4: the limit of capability; "within the compass of education"
[syn: {compass}, {range}, {grasp}]
v 1: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit
Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We
barely made the plane"; "I have to hit the MAC machine
before the weekend starts" [syn: {attain}, {make}, {hit},
{arrive at}, {gain}]
2: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The
thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed
of 140 miles per hour" [syn: {hit}, {attain}]
3: move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a
metaphorical sense: "Government reaches out to the people"
[syn: {reach out}]
4: be in communication with establish communication with "Our
advertisements reach millions" [syn: {get through}, {get
hold of}, {contact}]
5: to gain with effort: "she achieved her goal despite
setbacks." [syn: {achieve}, {accomplish}, {attain}]
6: to extend as far as "The sunlight reached the wall";"Can he
reach?" [syn: {extend to}, {touch}]
7: reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"
"She may not make the grade" [syn: {make}, {get to}, {progress
to}]
8: place into the hands or custody of "Turn the files over to
me please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers"
[syn: {pass}, {hand}, {pass on}, {turn over}, {give}]
9: to exert much effort or energy: "straining our ears to
hear." [syn: {strive}, {strain}]
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
REACH
Research and Educational Applications of Computers in the Humanities
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
REACH, n. The radius of action of the human hand. The area within
which it is possible (and customary) to gratify directly the
propensity to provide.
This is a truth, as old as the hills,
That life and experience teach:
The poor man suffers that keenest of ills,
An impediment of his reach.
G.J.
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