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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see also:
to reach after to reach for to reach at