rek’ning. Counting; computing; esteeming; reputing; stating an account mutually.

The act of counting or computing; calculation.

An account of time.

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.

The charges or account made by a host. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.

Account taken. 2 Kings 22:7.

Esteem; account; estimation. You make no further reckoning of the beauty, than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.

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.