Reckoning

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Esteem; account; estimation.

II. Reckoning ·noun An account of Time.

III. Reckoning ·noun The position of a ship as determined by calculation.

IV. Reckoning ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Reckon.

V. Reckoning ·noun The charge or account made by a host at an Inn.

VI. Reckoning ·noun Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, ·etc.

VII. Reckoning ·noun The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.

VIII. Reckoning ·noun 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.

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