Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.) 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.