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1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Sandys. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. Even reckoning makes

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1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: An account of time. Sandys. 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 than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. Sir P. Sidney. 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 ; -- also used fro dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. 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.

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    Negligently; heedlessly.
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  • DARKEN
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    To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
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    The office or employment of an accountant.
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    One who, or that which, scores.
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    One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
  • ACCOUNTANCY
    The art or employment of an accountant.
  • COMPUTATION
    1. The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon. 2. The result of computation; the amount computed. Syn. -- Reckoning; calculation; estimate;
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    One who disesteems. Boyle.
  • CONTEMNER
    One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
  • PERPLEX
    1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
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    Twilight; gloaming. Wright.
  • UNDERVALUE
    1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
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    scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
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    1. The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle. 2. An expectation based on cirumstances. The lazy gossips of
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    The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
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    To free from perplexity. Donne.
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    Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
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    A second or a new apportionment.
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    Want of due consideration; inattention to consequences; inconsiderateness. Blindness of mind, inconsideration, precipitation. Jer. Taylor. Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration. Sharp.
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  • DEAD-RECKONING
    See A
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