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  Reckon \Reck"on\, v. i.
     1. To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in
        numbering or computing. --Shak.
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     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.
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              ``Parfay,'' sayst thou, ``sometime he reckon
              shall.'' --Chaucer.
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     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 To reckon upon, to count or depend on; to
        include as a factor within one's considerations.
  
     To reckon with,
        (a) to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally
            or figuratively.
        (b) to include as a factor in one's plans or calculations;
            to anticipate.
        (c) to deal with; to handle; as, I have to reckon with
            raising three children as well as doing my job.
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                  After a long time the lord of those servants
                  cometh, and reckoneth with them.  --Matt. xxv.
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     To reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or
        arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence,
        to reckon erroneously.
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  Reckon \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.