Reck"on*ing, n. 1.
The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of
reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:
(a) An account of time. Sandys.
(b) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement
of obligations, liabilities, etc.
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.
2. The charge or account made by a host at an
inn.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a
reckoning.
Addison.
3. Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty]
than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.
Sir
P. Sidney.
4. (Navigation) (a) 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. (b) The position of a
ship as determined by calculation.
To be out of her reckoning, to be at a
distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a
ship.
