reckoning

RECKONING, participle present tense rek'ning. Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.RECK'ONING, noun 1. The act of counting or computing; calculation.2. An account of time.3. A statement of accounts with another; a statement and comparison of accounts mutually for adjustment; as in the proverb, 'short reckonings make long friends.'The way to make reckonings even, is to make them often.4. The charges or account made by a host.A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning 5. Account taken. 2 Kings 22:7.6. Esteem; account; estimation.You make no further reckoning of the beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.7. In navigation, an account of the ship's course and distance calculated from the log-board without the aid of celestial observation. This account from the log-board, is called the dead reckoning