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he throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.

A lunisolar calendar in use among Hebraic peoples, reckoning from the year 3761 b. c., the date traditionally given for the Creation. It received its present fixed form from Hillel II. about 360 a. d. The present names of the months, which are Babylonian- Assyrian in origin, replaced older ones, Abib, Bul, etc., at the…

To determine upon or deliberation; to esteem; to think; to reckon. If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord. Acts xvi. 15.

980 years, combining the solar, lunar, and indiction cycles (28 x 19 x 15 = 7,980), being reckoned from the year 4713 B. C., when the first years of these several cycles would coincide, so that if any year of the period be divided by 28, 19, or 15, the remainder will be the year of the corresponding cycle. The Julian p…

at sea. A good landfall (Naut.), the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

Bearing numerous dots resembling freckles.

Of or pertaining to lentigo; freckly; scurfy; furfuraceous.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

ue, was married to the husband's brother. The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother. Alford.

es; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee. Like a puffed and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads. Shak.

A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.

bserve they were littered so with us. Sir T. Browne. The son that she did litter here, A freckled whelp hagborn. Shak.

Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals. Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).

he meridian of a given place and the meridian of some other place from which longitude is reckoned, as from Greenwich, England, or sometimes from the capital of a country, as from Washington or Paris. The longitude of a place is expressed either in degrees or in time; as, that of New York is 74º or 4 h. 56 min. west of…

The state of being lost or destroyed; especially, the wreck or foundering of a ship or other vessel.

To allot; to sort; to portion. [R.] To lot on or upon, to count or reckon upon; to expect with pleasure. [Colloq. U. S.]

Wild; reckless. "Madcap follies" Beau. & Fl.

make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. Bacon.

Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won or lost by each side; -- disting. from medal play.