Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An old spelling of
reach .
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Examples
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Ne reche ich noȝt of þine þrete. ȝif ich me holde in mine hegge.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Neure in helle hi com. ne þer ne come reche. þach ich elches worldes wele. þer me mahte feche þ̵ his wulle seggen on þat wise men us seiden.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Maniman seið hwo reche pine þe sal habben ende 135
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Conteke [18] the dynnynge [19] ayre, and reche the skies.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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++List ilk le {f} ful man her to. ⁊ herof ofte reche.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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Nafre an helle ine cam ne cumen ich þar ne reche 225
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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[303] The MSS. read: "Bot what thar reche"; what need to care.
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 Henry Pepwell 1902
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Coughe [*] not, ner spitte, nor to lowd ye reche, ne put your {e} fyngurs in the cuppe/moot {es} for to seche.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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But men told him that between him and those trees lay a black abyss of mud and peat and reeds, Haddenham fen and Smithy fen, with the deep sullen West water or "Ald-reche" of the Ouse winding through them.
Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847
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But whã I dyd offre, me tought he dyd lawghe vpon me, and becke at me with hedde, & dyd reche to me this cokleshell.
The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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