Rĕck'on-ing, n.
(rĕk'n-ing), n. 1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; calculation;—in specific uses, (a.) An account of time. Sandys. (b.) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, &c.; hence, exaction of penalty incurred; infliction of deserved punishment.
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.
Sense 2. The charges or account made by a host.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison.
Sense 3. Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of beauty than of an outward, fading benefit nature bestowed. Sidney.
Sense 4. (Navigation.) A calculation of the ship’s position from observations made and recorded in the log-book, for this purpose, especially from a record of the courses and distances sailed, usually called the dead-reckoning. See DEAD-RECKONING.