Syn. -- To rehearse; narrate; relate; recount; describe; recapitulate;
detail; number; count.
Re*cite", v. i. To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an
audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a
lesson learned.
Re*cite", n. A recital. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.
Re*cit"er (-st"r), n. One who recites; also, a book of extracts for
recitation.
Reck (rk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Recked (rkt) (obs. imp. Roughte); p. pr.
& vb. n. Recking.] [AS. reccan, rcan, to care for; akin to OS. rkian,
OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. rækja, also to E. reckon, rake an
implement. See Rake, and cf. Reckon.] 1. To make account of; to care
for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic]
This son of mine not recking danger.
Sir P. Sidney.
And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser.
Burns.