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Reckoning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of counting or computing; calculation.

2. An account of time.

3. A statement of accounts with another; a statement and comparison of accounts mutually for adjustment; as in the proverb, 'short reckonings make long friends.'

4. The way to make reckonings even, is to make them often.

5. The charges or account made by a host.

6. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning

7. Account taken. 2 Kings 22:7 .

8. Esteem; account; estimation.

9. You make no further reckoning of the beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.

10. In navigation, an account of the ship's course and distance calculated from the log-board without the aid of celestial observation. This account from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning

Reckoning [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

rek'ning. Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.

Reckoning [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.

2. An account of time

3. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.

4. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

5. Esteem; account; estimation.

6. The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.

7. The position of a ship as determined by calculation.

Reckoning [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Reckon

Reckoning-book [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

a book in which money received and expended is entered.