Noah Webster
Reek
REEK, noun
1. Vapor; steam.
2. A rick, which see.
REEK, verb intransitive [Latin fragro. The primary sense is to send out or emit, to extend, to reach.]
To steam; to exhale; to emit vapor; applied especially to the vapor of certain moist substances, rather than to the smoke of burning bodies.
I found me laid in balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun soon dry'd, and on the reeking moisture fed.
Whose blood yet reeks on my avenging sword.