Definition of "reek"

Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by theCounter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke ofa Lime-kill.

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam, / And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam; / And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer, / And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.

1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect

The blue reeks of smoke from the cottages gave the whole widespread landscape an air of settled order and homely comfort.

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton

[…] innumerable Legions of his Angels of Light, the warm gleames of whose presence is able to make the Mountains to reek and smoak, and to awake that fiery principle that lies dormient in the Earth into a devouring flame.

1660, Henry More, An Explanation of the Grand Mystery of Godliness, page 236

The slaughter of lambs in offering reeked the fore-courts of the Temple.

1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur

[I]f we get caught we're for the gibbet and the chains. Our flesh will reek the wind.

2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 43