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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Reck  \Reck\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Recked}(obs.  imp.  {Roughte}); 
  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  {Recking}.]  [AS.  reccan  r[=e]can,  to  care 
  for  akin  to  OS  r[=o]kian,  OHG.  ruochan  G.  geruhen  Icel. 
  r[ae]kja,  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. 

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