reckon, reken, rekene, rekne

t. & i [A. S. ge - recenian =to explain, allied to ge -reccan, recean to rule, direct, order, tell; cogn. with Dut. rekenen; Icel. reikna; Dan. regne; Sw. räkna; Ο. H. Ger. rekhanón; M. H. Ger. rechenen; German rechnen to reckon; O. H. Ger. rachjan; M. H. Ger. rechen to declare, to tell. From the same root as rake (1), v. (q. v.)] A. Transitive : 1. To count, to number, to calculate; to number one by one; to enumerate. (Frequently followed by up . ) "I have not art to reckon my groans."-Shakesp.: Нат let , ii. 1. 2. To account, to impute, to a ign, as in an account. ( Romans iv. 9.) 3. To estimate by rank or quality; to esteem, to repute, to account, to value. "She reckoned it at her life's rate." Shakesp.: All's Well, v. 3. B. Intransitive : 1. To make reckoning; to cast account; to compute, to calculate; to make computation. "I am ill at reckoning." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , i. 2. 2. To go through accounts; to cast up and settle accounts; to adjust the balance of debit and credit. ( Matt . xxv. 19.) *3. To make up or render an account; to give account. "All flesh shall rise up and reckon."-Sandys: Sermons fo. 173. *4. To reason with one's self, and conclude from argument. ( Isaiah xxxviii. 13.) pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, ey = a. IMG:content-0282.png:[blocks in formation] "If they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." -Sanders on: Judgment. (2) To reckon on or upon : To count or rely on; to depend on; to lay dependence or reliance on. (3) To reckon with : To call to account; to settle accounts with. rěck-on-er, s. [Eng. reckon ; -er.] 1. One who reckons; one who computes or calculates. "Reckoners without their host must reckon twice."Camden: Remains. 2. That which a ists a person to reckon; a book containing tables ready calculated; a ready-reckoner (q. v.). rěck-on-ing, *rec-on-yng, pr. par., adj. & 8. [RECKON.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) IMG:content-0283.png:[blocks in formation] *6. Esteem, estimation, account, repute. "Those [herbs] which the magicians make such reckon ing of."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xxiv., ch. xvii. II. Naut.: [DEAD-RECKONING.] *reckoning-book, s. A book in which money received and expended is set down. rě-clāim' (1), *re-claime, *re-clame, *reclayme, *re-cleime, v . t . & i . [Fr. réclamer , from Lat. reclamo to cry out against: re - back, again, and clamo to cry, to call; Sp. & Port. reclamar; Ital. reclamare.] A. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To call back, to recall. [II.] "Willed him for to reclayme , with speed, His scattred people, ere they all were slaine." Spenser: F. Q., V. xii. 9. *2. To call out repeatedly to; to call on. "The headstrong horses hurried Octavius, the trembling charioteer, along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them."-Dryden. *3. To call or cry out against; to contradict, to gainsay. "Herod, instead of reclaiming what they exclaimed, embraced and hugged their praises." -Fuller. *4. To recover, to regain. "This arm-that hath reclaim'd To your obedience fifty fortre es." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., iii. 4. 5. To bring back from error, wandering, or transgre ion to a state of moral rectitude; to reform; to recall or bring back from evil courses. "If he there be tamed, Or in one article of vice reclaim'd ." 6. To rescue, to deliver. Cowper: Tirocinium , 241. "He arose To raise a language, and his land reclaim ." Byron: Childe Harold , iv. 30. 7. To rescue or recover from being waste, wild, desert, unproductive, or the like; to bring under cultivation. "Most of the work in reclaiming that small park was given to crofters." -London Echo. 8. To reduce or bring from a wild to a tame or domestic state; to tame. "A qualified property may subsist in animals feræ naturæ, by a man's reclaiming and making them tame by art."-Black stone: Comment ., bk. ii., ch. 25. *9. To bring under restraint; to restrain, to keep back or under. "The wood is reclaimed and repre ed from running out in length."-P. Holland : Pliny , bk. xvii., ch. xxii. IMG:content-0284.png:[blocks in formation] "I should reclaim in good earnest."- Richardson : Cla ri a , iii. 23. 3. To draw back; to give way. re-claim, (2), v . t . [Pref. re, and Eng. claim , v. (q. v.)] To claim again; to claim back; to demand repo e ion of. "And thus at Venice landed to reclaim His wife, religion, house, and Christian name." Byron : Beppo , xcvii. *re-claim, *re-clame, subst . [RECLAIM (1), v.] The act of reclaiming or calling back; the state of being reclaimed. "But leasure had and liberty to frame Their purpost flight, free from all men's reclame.' Spenser: F. Q., III. x. 16.