n (cf. 2 rec(c)aid) reciting (of poems), narrating; uttering, declaring, strictly of bards who received a reward in return for reciting a poem): toreic .i. reic thō .i. aisneis i táu .i. i sanuis silent (secret) telling , Corm. Y 1204 . bean sídhe ag reic a rúine, IGT Dec. ex. 1266 . reac a sgéal dleaghar im' dhán my duty in song is to tell of him , A. Ó Dálaigh xviii 3 . ag reic sceul sgigeamhail, Keat. i 62.36 . sgeóil . . . | go mbeid oraibh dá reic ruinn, Studies 1921, 74 § 8 . ar reic na haiste, Ó Bruad. iii 126 x . laoidhe dá reic, Measgra D. 36.8 . ag reic ┐ ag faisnéis a pheacadh, TSh. 1253 . 'gud reic os rigaib proclaiming thee above kings (?), Irish Texts ii 65 § 19 . In fig. sense revealing, displaying : ag reic édaingne a aignid, O'Gr. Cat. 458 z . ag reic íorna a cúil chais `displaying the locks of her curling hair', A. Ó Dálaigh lv 8 .