6. To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his hand reaches the river. Thy desire . . . leads to no excess That reaches blame. Milton.
7. To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to. The best account of the appearances of nature which human penetration can reach, comes short of its reality. Cheyne.
9. To understand; to comprehend. [Obs.] Do what, sir I reach you not. Beau. & Fl.
10. To overreach; to deceive. [Obs.] South.
REACH
Reach, v. t.
1. To stretch out the hand. Goddess humane, reach, then, and freely taste! Milton.
2. To strain after something; to make efforts. Reaching above our nature does no good. Dryden.
3. To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something. And behold, a ladder set upon the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Gen. xxviii. 12. The new world reaches quite across the torrid zone. Boyle.
4. (Naut.)
Defn: To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another,
or with the ind nearly abeam. To reach after or at, to make efforts
to attain to or obtain.
He would be in the mind reaching after a positive idea of infinity.
Locke.