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  • English Word Reckon Definition To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
  • English Word Reckon Definition 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.
  • English Word Reckoned Definition of Reckon
  • English Word Reckoner Definition One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning.
  • English Word Reckoning Definition of Reckon
  • English Word Reckoning Definition The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
  • English Word Reckoning Definition An account of time
  • English Word Reckoning Definition Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.
  • English Word Reckoning Definition The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
  • English Word Reckoning Definition Esteem; account; estimation.
  • English Word Reckoning Definition 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 for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.
  • English Word Reckoning Definition The position of a ship as determined by calculation.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attempt to recover possession of.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline; -- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other animals.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor, cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste, submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To correct; to reform; -- said of things.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To exclaim against; to gainsay.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To bring anyone back from evil courses; to reform.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition To draw back; to give way.
  • English Word Reclaim Definition The act of reclaiming, or the state of being reclaimed; reclamation; recovery.
  • English Word Reclaimable Definition That may be reclaimed.
  • English Word Reclaimant Definition One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.
  • English Word Reclaimed Definition of Reclaim
  • English Word Reclaimer Definition One who reclaims.
  • English Word Reclaiming Definition of Reclaim
  • English Word Reclaimless Definition That can not be reclaimed.