RECKONS
Verb
reckons
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of reckon
Anagrams
• conkers
Source: Wiktionary
RECKON
Reck"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reckoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.]
Etym: [OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to
reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement;
the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together.
See Reck, v. t.]
1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.
The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that
remain. Lev. xxvii. 18.
I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.
Addison.
2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or
quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute.
He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37.
For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton.
3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain
quality or value.
Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9.
Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.
Hawthorne.
4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence,
to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I
reckon he won't try that again. [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
Syn.
– To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value;
esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess.
Reck"on, v. i.
1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or
computing. Shak.
2. To come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle; to
examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust
relations of desert or penalty.
"Parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall." Chaucer. To reckon
for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "If they fail in their
bounden duty, they shall reckon for it one day." Bp. Sanderson.
– To reckon on or upon, to count or depend on.
– To reckon with, to settle accounts or claims with; -- used
literally or figuratively.
After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth
with them. Matt. xxv. 19.
– To reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or
arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence, to reckon
erroneously.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition