Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reck

Reck (rek) , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon reccan, rēcan, to care for; akin to Old Saxon rōkian, Old High German ruochan, German geruhen, Icelandic rakja, also to English reckon, rake an implement. See Rake, and compare 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
2.
To concern; -- used impersonally. [Poetic]
What recks it them? — Milton

Reck (rek) , intransitive verb

To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of. [Archaic]
Then reck I not, when I have lost my life. — Chaucer
I reck not though I end my life to-day. — Shakespeare
Of me she recks not, nor my vain desire. — M. Arnold