Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Reek

Reek (rēk) , noun

A rick. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson

Reek , noun

[Anglo-Saxon rēc; akin to OFries. rēk, LG. & Dutch rook, German rauch, Old High German rouh, Danish rog, Swedish rok, Icelandic reykr, and to Anglo-Saxon reócan to reek, smoke, Icelandic rjūka, German riechen to smell.]

Vapor; steam; smoke; fume.
As hateful to me as the reek of a limekiln. — Shakespeare

Reek (rēkt) , intransitive verb

[As. rēcan. See Reek vapor.]

To emit vapor, usually that which is warm and moist; to be full of fumes; to steam; to smoke; to exhale.
Few chimneys reeking you shall espy. — Spenser
I found me laid In balmy sweat, which with his beams the sun Soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed. — Milton
The coffee rooms reeked with tobacco. — Macaulay