Definition of reckoning

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Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..

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Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Esteem; account; estimation.
Tenor :: Tenor (n.) The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary..
Account :: Account (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank..
Miscast :: Miscast (n.) An erroneous cast or reckoning.
Reckoning :: Reckoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recko.
Escot :: Escot (v. t.) To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
Point :: Point (n.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal..
Calculation :: Calculation (n.) The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc..
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..
Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method..
Make :: Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day..
Quartan :: Quartan (n.) An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days..
Shot :: Shot (v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
Shot-clog :: Shot-clog (n.) A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them..
Nephelodometer :: Nephelodometer (n.) An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
Eve :: Eve (n.) The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight; as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also, the period immediately preceding some important event..
Reckoning :: Reckoning (n.) The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Computation :: Computation (n.) The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
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