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To reach for
(gcide) | Reach \Reach\, v. i.
1. To stretch out the hand.
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Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste!
--Milton.
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2. To strain after something; to make efforts.
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Reaching above our nature does no good. --Dryden.
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3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence,
etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to,
something.
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And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top
of it reached to heaven. --Gen. xxviii.
12.
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The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone.
--Boyle.
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4. (Naut.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking
to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
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To reach after or To reach for or To reach at, to make
efforts to attain to or obtain.
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He would be in the posture of the mind reaching
after a positive idea of infinity. --Locke.
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