Middle English Dictionary Entry
rẹ̄k(e n.(3)
Entry Info
| Forms | rẹ̄k(e n.(3) Also rẹ̄ch(e, reik(e, rike, rich. |
| Etymology | OE rēc & ON: cp. OI reykr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Smoke, fumes, reek; also fig.; ~ aromatik; (b) steam, vapor, mist; also, an exhalation; ~ fille, the misty month, April, or March-April; (c) fig. outcry, uproar, tumult; (d) ~ peni (silver), a tax levied on each house having a fireplace.
Associated quotations
a
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2925 : He sagh þat cuntre [Sodom]..Wit sparcand reke [Frf: spark and rike]..couerd abouen.
- a1400 NVPsalter (Vsp D.7)36.21 : For lauerdes wiþerwines..as reke þai wane to noght.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)1009 : Suche a roþun of a reche ros..As a fornes ful of flot þat upon fyr boyles.
- ?a1425 Mandev.(2) (Eg 1982)121/10 : Þaire housez..hase bot a wyndowe, whare at þe light commez in and þe reke gase oute.
- (1435) Misyn FL (Corp-O 236)62/19 : He fleis it als it wer reyk [L velut..fumum], þat hurtis his eyne.
- a1450 Treat.Horses (Sln 2584)107/310 : If þou se eny reche come out, loke þou daube it eft-sonus.
- c1450(?a1400) Wars Alex.(Ashm 44)1566 : Þar passis þe procession..Of childire..Sum with sensours..Quare-of þe reke aromatike rase to þe welken.
- (1466) Paston (Gairdner)4.228 : To the glaser for takyn owte of ii panys of the wyndows..for to late owte the reke of the torches at the deryge, and sowderyng new of the same, xx d.
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.53.36b : Riȝt so, þi sowle whan it findiþ no confort in þi self bute blak reek of gostli blindnes.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)103a : Reke: fumus, fumulus [Monson: fumiculus].
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)67.2 : Reke cumes of the flawm, and in passynge vp it witis away.
- a1500(a1450) St.Robt.Knares.(Eg 3143)410 : Out off Roberd hull full he Rayse a reike that men myght se.
b
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)148 : Ðe mones ligt is moneð met, Ðor-after is ðe sunne set; In geuelengðhe worn it mad, In Reke-fille, on-sunder shad.
- a1325(c1250) Gen.& Ex.(Corp-C 444)3136 : Siðen quað god to moysen, 'Ðis sal gure firmest moned ben.' Ðoo gune men ðe mone sen In april, Reke-fille ben.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)6708 : The brethe thei blew stode lyke a smoke, Hit ros ouer hem as the reke; Hit ferd a-boute hem as a myst.
- a1400 Siege Jerus.(1) (LdMisc 656)790 : Josophus..Made wedes of wolle in wete for to plunge..Þe wedes dropeden doun..Rich rises hem fro.
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)79/10 : Whenn þe erthe ys clene with-oute roche, and with-oute reke [L non abundans fumositatibus], þe water of þat stede ys light.
- a1475 Sidrak & B.in Centaurus 12 (Lnsd 793)219/5338 : Men mowen somtyme se a smeke Arise of þe erthe as it were a reke, And exalaciouns þei done highte, Þicke in-to þe eyr þei stiȝen vp righte.
c
- a1400(a1325) Cursor (Vsp A.3)2744 : O sodome haue i herd þe cri..þe reke [Trin-C: reech; Arms: reeche] es raght vn-to þe heuen.
- a1450 Yk.Pl.(Add 35290)220/34 : His romour in þis reme Hath raysede mekill reke.
- a1500(a1460) Towneley Pl.(Hnt HM 1)372/168 : She that is most meke..she can rase vp a reke, if she be well nettyld.
d
- (1255) *Memorandum Sherburn Hospital, Bishopton No.4 (MS.) [OD col.] : De Rekepeni, v sol. De Rekepeni apud Dunelm., ij sol.
- (1276) Gloss.DuCangep.682 [rekpenis] : Porro huic sanctioni adjicimus, quod si plures liberi proprium habentes, in parentum pariter familia vivant, ad denarios, qui nuncupantur Rekpenis.
- (1351-2) Acc.R.Dur.in Sur.Soc.100552 : 13 s. 4 d. de Rekepenys parochiarum de Jarowe et Wermouthe.
- (1472) Bailiff R.Nhb.in Sur.Soc.13449 : Rekesyluer.