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.
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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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