Definition of reckon

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Reckon (v. i.) To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

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Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..
Southing :: Southing (n.) Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing..
Outtell :: Outtell (v. t.) To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning..
Teaspoonful :: Teaspoonful (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.
Enumerative :: Enumerative (a.) Counting, or reckoning up, one by one..
Enumerate :: Enumerate (v. t.) To count; to tell by numbers; to count over, or tell off one after another; to number; to reckon up; to mention one by one; to name over; to make a special and separate account of; to recount; as, to enumerate the stars in a constellation..
Reckon :: Reckon (v. t.) To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again..
Ab :: Ab (n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August..
Miscast :: Miscast (v. t.) To cast or reckon wrongly.
Number :: Number (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
Credit :: Credit (n.) The side of an account on which are entered all items reckoned as values received from the party or the category named at the head of the account; also, any one, or the sum, of these items; -- the opposite of debit; as, this sum is carried to one's credit, and that to his debit; A has several credits on the books of B..
Elul :: Elul (n.) The sixth month of the Jewish year, by the sacred reckoning, or the twelfth, by the civil reckoning, corresponding nearly to the month of September..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) 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..
Olympiad :: Olympiad (n.) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads..
Longitude :: Longitude (n.) The arc or portion of the equator intersected between the meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74ยก or 4 h. 56 min. west of Greenwich..
Era :: Era (n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned..
Dollar :: Dollar (n.) The value of a dollar; the unit commonly employed in the United States in reckoning money values.
Compt :: Compt (n.) Account; reckoning; computation.
Wineglassful :: Wineglassful () As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls..
Westing :: Westing (n.) The distance, reckoned toward the west, between the two meridians passing through the extremities of a course, or portion of a ship's path; the departure of a course which lies to the west of north..
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