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A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]

Hasty; reckless; rash. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. & p. p. of Reck. Chaucer.

s of immediate payment; cash. "'Tis all the ready money fate can give." Cowley. -- Ready reckoner, a book of tables for facilitating computations, as of interest, prices, etc. -- To make ready, to make preparation; to get in readiness.

To reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reckless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reckless. [Obs.] P. Plowman.

To count or reckon again.

To reckon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To make reference; to take account. [R.& Obs.] Reckoning by the years of their own consecration without relating to any imperial account. Fuller.

To hold in thought; to account; to estimate; to hold; to think; to reckon. Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight Job xviii. 3. The king your father was reputed for A prince most prudent. Shak.

To care for; to heed; to reck. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Careless; reckless. [Obs.] Dryden. --- Retch"less*ly, adv. -- Retch"less*ness, n. [Obs.]

Fig.: Anything which causes a disaster or wreck resembling the wreck of a vessel upon a rock.

It was replaced by the Julian calendar. In designating the days of the month, the Romans reckoned backward from three fixed points, the calends, the nones, and the ides. The calends were always the first day of the month. The ides fell on the 15th in March, May, July (Quintilis), and October, and on the 13th in other…

The time which to reckon in making calculations. When a root is of a birth yknowe [known]. Chaucer. Aërial roots. (Bot.) (a) Small roots emitted from the stem of a plant in the open air, which, attaching themselves to the bark of trees, etc., serve to support the plant. (b) Large roots growing from the stem, etc., whic…

imp. of Reck, to care. Chaucer.

A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield.

An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness. He parted well, and paid his score. Shak.

l fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired. Of other care they little reckoning make, Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast. Milton.