Dictionary entry

Reek (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Reek, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Reeked (rēkt); p. pr. & vb. n.Reeking.] [As. rēcan. See Reek vapor.] To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.

Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. Spenser.

I found me laid

In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun

Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. Milton.

The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. Macaulay.