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▪ I. reeking, vbl. n.1|ˈriːkɪŋ|
[f. reek v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of reek v.1 Also concr., smoke, vapour.
1483Cath. Angl. 302/2 A Rekynge, fumositas. 1558T. Phaer æneid ii. E iij, Mixt with dust & smoke thick streames of reekings rise. 1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Vapor, moisture, ayre, hote breath, or reaking. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 90 The least steams or reekings of bodies. 1705A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1856 A great Hay-rick.., after some Reaking and Fermentation took fire. 1884W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron Index 531/1 Reeking of ingot-moulds.
▪ II. reeking, vbl. n.2
see reek v.2
▪ III. reeking, ppl. a.|ˈriːkɪŋ|
[f. reek v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That emits smoke. a reeking house, an inhabited house. Sc.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xii. 20 Recende vel smecende [flax]. 1483Cath. Angl. 302/2 Rekynge, fumalis. 1779D. Graham Writ. (1883) II. 228 A reeking house and a rocking cradle. 1837R. Nicoll Poems (1842) 77 Where the shepherd's reeking cot Peeps from the broomy glen. 1894Crockett Raiders (ed. 3) 170 Not one reeking house or any place where kindly folk dwelt.
2. That emits vapour or steam.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives vii. 20 Agnes..þæra maðma ne rohte þe ma þe reocendes meoxes. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 79 Salt water, and bitter, and rekand, ar euyl. 1601Holland Pliny I. 97 Breathing forth vapors out of reeking rockes. 1781Cowper Anti-Thelyphth. 93 From many a steaming lake and reeking bog. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Praise Chimney-Sweepers, Indiscriminate pieces of those reeking sausages. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. v, A reeking heap of stable manure.
fig.1784Cowper Task iii. 503 The impatient fervour which it first conceives Within its reeking bosom.
b. of dead or mangled bodies or their parts while still warm.
a1000Judith 314 (Gr.), Cirdon cynerofe,..wælscel oninnan, reocende hræw. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xii. 211 The reeking Entrails on the Fire they threw. 1735Somerville Chase iii. 214 The Jest of Clowns, his reeking Carcase hangs. 1821Shelley Hellas 434 Where'er..The obscene birds the reeking remnants cast Of these dead limbs. 1864Burton Scot Abr. I. i. 30 A feudal lord..would..warm his feet in their reeking vitals.
c. of blood and wounds freshly shed or made, or of things smeared with warm blood.
1573Twyne æneid xii. (1584) T vj, Their foule black reaking blood, with channel large doth fall to ground. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. ii. 39 Except they meant to bathe in reeking Wounds. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. iv. 186 They..stain their Swords in their own reeking Gore. 1720Pope Iliad xvii. 415 A sanguine torrent steeps the reeking ground. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 352 From out the reeking wound. 1877L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 19 With the reeking blade Wet with the heart's blood of my child I smote.
d. of persons or animals in a heated state.
1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 30 Came there a reeking Poste, Stew'd in his haste. 1735Somerville Chase i. 181 Tumultuous soon they plunge into the Stream, There lave their reeking Sides. 1782Cowper Gilpin 122 Bowing down His reeking head full low. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge ii, Holding the light to his panting and reeking beast.
3. That rises as vapour or steam.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xviii. 57 Butan ren-scurum & reocendum deawe. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxxxv. iii, In flaky mists, the reaking vapors rise. 1650W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §48 Reaking steam drawn out of moist places. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 256 In Balmie Sweat, which with his Beames the Sun Soon dri'd, and on the reaking moisture fed. 1899Rodway Guiana Wilds 33 The great drawback was the reeking moisture.
fig.1607Shakes. Timon iii. vi. 103 [Timon] washes it off and sprinkles in your faces Your reeking villany.
4. Sending out, full of, unwholesome or unpleasant fumes or smells.
1832Lytton Eugene A. i. x, Washing the walls of the reeking town. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke i, Poor wretches who sit stifled in reeking garrets and workrooms. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. iii. 122 God..purged the pestilence from the reeking atmosphere with fire and storm.
5. Comb., as reeking hot, reeking red.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 103 Whom reeking hote, with heart yet panting, they greedily devoured. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. 359 It comes reaking hot as it were from the fire. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xiv, But can I clasp it reeking red?
Hence ˈreekingly adv.
1611Cotgr., Fumeusement, smoakily, fumingly, reekingly. |