reckoning

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1. 1.The charge or account made by a host at an inn. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison.
2. 2.Esteem; account; estimation. You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. Sir P. Sidney.
3. 3.(Navigation) (a) 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 fro dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. (b) 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.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is the charge or account made by a host at an inn. A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison called?
• What is esteem; account; estimation. You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. Sir P. Sidney called?