What is the meaning of RECKONING. Phrases containing RECKONING
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Reckoning is Dorset slang for wages.
The Navigating Officer, who is often humorously thought to guess certain aspects of his job, such as the reckoning of the ship's position.
Talking about something or someone in a slanderous manner. "I overheard them reckoning up the mayor."
The process of determining a vessel's position using only knowledge of a point of departure, vessel's speed, elapsed time and course steered. Originally, dead was spelled "ded" for "deduced".
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Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing.
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Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.
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Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
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Reckoning; account.
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The higher of the two kinds of voices usually belonging to adult males; hence, the part in the harmony adapted to this voice; the second of the four parts in the scale of sounds, reckoning from the base, and originally the air, to which the other parts were auxillary.
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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.
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Lying toward the west; situated at the west, or in a western direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the west, or coming from the west; as, a west course is one toward the west; an east and west line; a west wind blows from the west.
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A money of account in China, reckoning at about $1.60; also, a weight of about four ounces avoirdupois.
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A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
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A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
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To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.
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The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
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An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
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Distance southward from any point departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to northing.
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A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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A number told or counted off; a reckoning by count; an enumeration; a count, in distinction from measure or weight; a number reckoned or stated.
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One of the successive portions of a course, or of a series of occurrences, reckoning from change to change; hence, a winding; a bend; a meander.
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A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
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A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
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The time between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper.
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