01 n. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
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The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.“Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.” — South.“He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived.” — Macaulay.
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The charge or account made by a host at an inn.“A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.” — Addison.
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Esteem; account; estimation.“You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.” — Sir P. Sidney.
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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.(Navigation) See: Dead
Phrases & compounds
To be out of her reckoning —
to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship.
day of reckoning —
the day or time when one must pay one's debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's transgressions.