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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Reck \Reck\ (r[e^]k), verb (used without an object) 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.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Reck \Reck\ (r[e^]k), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Recked} (r[e^]kt) (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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