reckoning 
Cervieiua pales for all, his purse 
Deiraii-s ull recknings. 
Times' Whittle (E. E. T. 8.), p. 61. 
We were treated in the most friendly manner by these 
good people, and had no reason to complain of our reckon- 
ing on leaving. E. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 360. 
He paid the goodwife's reckoning 
In the coin of SOUR and tale. 
Whitiifr, Cobbler Keezar's Vision. 
Till issuing arm'd he found the host, and cried, 
"Thy reckoning, friend?" Tennyson, lieraint. 
3. An account of time. 
Truth is truth 
To the end of reckoning. 
Shale., M. for M., v. 1. 46. 
4. The estimated time of a cow's calving. 
[Now only Scotch.] 
Canst thou their reck'nings keep, the time compute ? 
Sandys, Paraphrase upon Job, xxxix. 
5. A summing up in general ; a counting of 
cost or expenditure ; a comparison of items or 
particulars in any matter of accountability. 
Let us care 
To live so that our reckonings may fall even 
When we're to make account. 
Ford, Broken Heart, ii. 3. 
The waste of it [time) will make you dwindle, alike in 
intellectual and moral stature, beyond your darkest reck- 
onings. Gladstone, Might of Bight, p. 21. 
6. An accounting for action or conduct; ex- 
planation; inquisition; scrutiny. 
We two to rekenynge must be brougt ; 
Biwaare ! free wille wole make thee woode. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 60. 
7. A holding in estimation; assignment of 
value; appreciation. 
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of 
an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. 
Sir P. Sidney. 
8. Standing as to rank, quality, or worthiness ; 
rating; consideration; reputation. 
Neither ought they [certain men] to be of such reckon- 
ing that their opinion or conjecture should cause the 
laws of the Church of England to give place. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., iv. 
Of honourable reckoning are you both. 
Shak., R. and J., i. 2. 4. 
One M. Harvey, a right honest man, of good reckoning; 
and one that above twenty years since bare the chiefest 
office in Walden with good credit. 
<?. Harvey, Four Letters, i. 
9. Naut., the calculation of the position of a 
ship from the rate as determined by the log, 
and the course as determined by the compass, 
the place from which the vessel started being 
known. See dead-reckoning Astronomical reck- 
oning, a mode of stating dates before Christ, used by as- 
tronomers. The year B. c, 1 is called ; B. c. 2 is called 
l, etc. Count and reckoning. See counts. The 
day Of reckoning, the day of judgment ; the day when 
account must be rendered and settlement made. To be 
astern of the reckoning. See astern. To run ahead 
of one's reckoning (naitt.), to sail beyond the position 
erroneously estimated in the dead-reckoning. 
reckoning-book (rek'n-ing-buk), n. A book 
in which money received and expended is set 
down. Johnson. 
reckoning-penny (rek'n-ing-pen''!), . [= G. 
rechenpfennig.'] Ametallic disk or counter, with 
devices and inscriptions like a coin, formerly 
used in reckoning or casting up accounts. 
reclaim (re-klam'), v. [Early mod. E. also re- 
clame; < ME. reclaimen, reclaymen, recleimen, re- 
cleymen, < OF. reclaimer, recleimer, reclamer, F. 
reclamer, claim, reclaim, cry out against, ex- 
claim upon, sue, claim, = Pr. Sp. Pg. reclamar 
= It. riehiamare, < L. reclamare, cry out against, 
exclaim against, contradict, call "repeatedly, < 
re-, again, + clamare, call: see claim 1 .'] I. 
intrans. If. To cry out ; exclaim against some- 
thing. 
Hereunto Polomar reclaiming againe, began to aduance 
and magnine the honour and dignitie of generall conncels. 
Foxe, Martyrs, p. 637, an. 1438. 
"I do not design it," says Tom, " as a reflection on Vir- 
gil ; on the contrary, I know that all the manuscripts re- 
claim against such a punctuation." Addison, Tom Folio. 
2. In Scots law, to appeal from a judgment of 
the lord ordinary to the inner house of the 
Court of Session. 3f. To draw back; give way. 
Ne from his currish will a whit reclaim. 
Spenser. (Webster.) 
4. To effect reformation. 
They, harden'd more by what might most reclaim, 
Grieving to see his glory, at the sight 
Took envy. Hilton, P. L., vi. 791. 
II. trimy. If. To cry out against; contradict; 
gainsay. 
Herod, instead of reclaiming what they exclaimed, em- 
braced and hugged their praises. 
Fuller, Pisgah Sight, ii. 8. (Trench.) 
2t. To call back; call upon to return ; recall; 
urge backward. 
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And willed him for to reclayme with speed 
His scattred people, ere they all were slaine. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. xii. 9. 
3. To claim the return or restoration of; de- 
mand renewed possession of ; attempt to re- 
gain: as, to reclaim one's rights or property. 
A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element per- 
petually reclaiming its prior occupancy. Coxe. 
A truly great historian would reclaim those materials 
which the novelist has appropriated. Macaulay, History. 
4. To effect the return or restoration of; get 
back or restore by effort; regain; recover. 
So shall the Briton blood then- crowne agayn reclame. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 48. 
This arm, that hath reclaim 'd 
To your obedience fifty fortresses. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VT., iii. 4. 5. 
5f. In falconry, to draw back ; recover. 
Another day he wol, peraventure, 
Reclayme thee and brlnge thee to lure. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Manciple's Tale, 1. 72. 
To the bewits was added the creance, or long thread, 
by which the bird in tutoring was drawn back, after she 
had been permitted to fly ; and this was called the reclaim- 
ing of the hawk. Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 91. 
6f. To bring under restraint or within close 
limits; check; restrain; holdback. 
By this means also the wood is reclaimed and repressed 
from running out in length beyond all measure. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvii. 22. 
Or is her tow'ring Flight reclaim'd 
By Seas from Icarus' Downfall nam'd ? 
Prior, Carmen Seculare (1700), st 23. 
It cannot be intended that he should delay his assis- 
tance till corruption is reclaimed. 
Johnson, Debates in Parliament (ed. 1787), II. 375. 
7. To draw back from error or wrong-doing; 
bring to a proper state of mind; reform. 
If he be wild, 
The reclaiming him to good and honest, brother, 
Will make much for my honour. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, i. 1. 
Tis the intention of Providence, in its various expres- 
sions of goodness, to reclaim mankind. Rogers, Sermons. 
8. To bring to a subdued or ameliorated state ; 
make amenable to control or use; reduce to obe- 
dience, as a wild animal; tame; subdue; also, 
to fit for cultivation, as wild or marshy land. 
Thou [Jason] madest thy reclaymynge and thy lures 
To ladies of thy staately aparaunce, 
And of thy wordes farsed with plesaunce. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 1371. 
The elephant is never won with anger, 
Nor must that man that would reclaim a lion 
Take him by the teeth. Fletcher, Valentinian, i. 3. 
Upon his nst he bore, for his delight, 
An eagle well reclaimed, and lily white. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 89. 
A pathless wilderness remains 
Yet unsubdued by man's reclaiming hand. 
Shelley, Queen Mab, ix. 
9t. To call or cry out again ; repeat the utter- 
ance of ; sound back; reverberate. 
Melt to teares, poure out thy plaints, let Eccho reclame 
them. Greene, The Mourning Garment. 
Reclaimed animals, in law, those animals, naturally 
wild, that are made tame by art, industry, or education, 
whereby a qualified property is acquired in them. = 8301. 
4 and 6. To recover, regain, restore, amend, correct. 
reclaim (re-klam'), n. [< ME. reclayme, re- 
cleyme, < OF. reclaim, F. reclame = Sp. Pg. It. 
reclame, calling back (in falconry); from the 
verb.] The act of reclaiming, or the state of 
being reclaimed, in any sense ; reclamation ; re- 
call; restoration; reformation. 
Non of hem all that him hide mygh 
But cam with him a reclayme ffro costis aboute, 
And (fell with her ffetheris fflat vppon the erthe. 
Richard the Redeless, ii. 182. 
I see you are e'en past hope 
Of all reclaim. 
B, Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 
reclaimable (re-kla'ma-bl), a. [< reclaim + 
-able.] Capable of being reclaimed, reformed, 
or tamed. 
He said that he was young, and so reclaimable : that this 
was his first fault. Dr. Cuckburn, Hem. on Burnet, p. 41. 
reclaimably (re-kla'ma-bli), adv. So as to be 
capable of being reclaimed. 
reclaimantt (re-kla'mant), . [< OF. recla- 
mant, F. reclamant (= Pg. It. reclamante), ppr. 
of reclamer, reclaim: see reclaim.'] One who 
reclaims, or opposes, contradicts, or remon- 
strates. 
reclaimer (re-kla'mer), n. One who reclaims. 
reclaiming (re-kla'ming), p. a. [< ME. re- 
cleymynye; ppr. of reclaim, v.] 1. Serving or 
tending to reclaim ; recalling to a regular course 
of life; reforming. 2. In Scots law, appealing 
from a judgment of the lord ordinary to the 
inner house of the Court of Session Reclaim- 
recline 
ing days, in Scots law, the days allowed within which to 
take an appeal. Reclaiming note, In Scots law, the 
petition of appeal in a case of reclaiming, 
reclaimless (re-klam'les), a. [< reclaim + 
-less.] Incapable of being reclaimed ; that can- 
not be reclaimed; not to be reclaimed; irre- 
claimable. [Rare.] 
And look on Guise as a reclaimleis Rebel. 
Lee, Duke of Guise, ii. 1. 
reclamation (rek-la-ma'shon), . [< OF. re- 
clamation, F. reclamation = Sp. reclamacion = 
Pg. redamactto = It. richiamazione, a contra- 
diction, gainsaying, < L. reclamatio(n-), a cry 
of opposition or disapprobation, < reclamare, 
cry out against: see reclaim.] 1. A reclaim- 
ing of something as a possession ; a claim or 
demand for return or restoration; a require- 
ment of compensation for something wrongly 
taken or withheld; also, a claim to a discovery 
as having been previously made. 
When Denmark delivered up to Great Britain three 
prizes, carried into a port of Norway by Paul Jones In the 
revolutionary war, we complained of it, and continued 
our reclamations through more than sixty years. 
Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, App. iii., p. 448. 
2. A calling or bringing back, as from aberra- 
tion or wrong-doing ; restoration ; reformation. 
Not for a partnership in their vice, but for their recla- 
mation from evill. 
/;/'. Hall, Satan's Fiery Darts Quenched, iii. 6. 
3. The act of subduing to fitness for service or 
use; taming; amelioration: as, the reclamation 
of wild animals or waste land. 
A thorough course of reclamation was then adopted 
with this land, which was chiefly bog and cold boulder 
clay. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 205. 
4. A remonstrance; representation made in 
opposition ; a cry of opposition or disapproba- 
tion. 
I suspect yon must allow there is some homely truth 
at the bottom of what called out my worthy secretary's 
admonitory reclamation. Noctes Ambrosianx, Sept., 1832. 
reclamation-plow (rek-la-ma'shon-plou), n. 
A heavy plow used for breaking new land and 
clearing it of roots and stones. Some forms 
are drawn by a steam-plow engine, others by 
oxen or horses. 
reclinant (re-kli'nant), a. [< F. reclinant, ppr. 
of recliner: see recline.] In her., bending or 
bowed. 
reclinate (rek'li-nat), a. [= F. recline = Sp. 
Pg. reclinado = It. reclinato, < L. reclinatus, pp. 
of reclinare, bend back, recline : see recline.] 
Bending downward, (a) In bot., said of stems or 
branches when erect or ascending at the base, then turn- 
ing toward the ground ; of leaves in the bud in which the 
blade is bent down upon the petiole or the apex of the 
blade upon its base ; of a cotyledon doubled over in the 
seed, (i) In entom., said of parts, processes, hairs, etc., 
which curve down toward a surface, as if to rest on it. 
reclination (rek-li-na'shon), n. [= F. reclinai- 
son = Sp. reclinacion = Pg. reclinacSo, < L. re- 
clinare, pp. reclinatus, bend back: see recline 
and reclinate.] 1. The act of leaning or re- 
clining ; the state of reclining or beingreclined. 
2. In dialing, the angle which the plane of 
the dial makes with a vertical plane which it 
intersects in a horizontal line. 3. In surg., 
one of the operations once used for the cure of 
cataract. It consists in applying a specially constructed 
needle in a certain manner to the anterior surface of the 
lens, and depressing it downward or backward into the 
vitreous humor. 
reclinatoryt (re-kll'na-to-ri), n. [ME. reelina- 
torye; < ML. reclinatbrium, a place for reclin- 
ing, a pillow, < L. reclinare, recline : see recline] 
Something to recline on ; a rest. 
Therinne sette his reclynatorye. 
Lydgate, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 8. (HalKweU.) 
recline (re-klm'), v. ; pret. and pp. reclined, ppr. 
reclining. [< OF. recliner, F. recliner = Sp. Pg. 
reclinar = It. reclinare, lean back, < L. recli- 
nare, lean back, recline, < re-, back, + "clinare, 
lean: see dine and lean*, v.] I. intrans. 1. To 
lean backward or downward upon something ; 
rest in a recumbent posture. 2. To bend 
downward; lean; have a leaning posture. 
[Rare.] 
Eastward, in long perspective glittering, shine 
The wood-crowned clilfs that o'er the lake recline. 
Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches. 
Reclining dial. See <ZioZ.=Syn. Recline is always as 
strong as lean, and generally stronger, indicating a more 
completely recumbent position, and approaching lie. 
II. trans. To place at rest in a leaning or 
recumbent posture ; lean or settle down upon 
something : as, to recline the head on a pillow, 
or upon one's arm. 
The mother 
Reclined her dying head upon his breast. Dryden. 
