Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RECK, v.t.

To heed; to regard; to care for. This son of mine not recking danger. – Sidney. [This verb is obsolete unless in poetry. We observe the primary sense and application in the phrase “it recks me not,” that is, it does not strain or distress me; it does not rack my mind. To reck danger is a derivative form of expression, and a deviation from the proper sense of the verb.]