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f 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.

from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be conquered. Eikon Basilike.

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.

th wholly beguiled both church and state of the benefit of all my either retractions or Eikon Basilike.

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 mon…

Of or pertaining to the German physicist Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, or the rays discovered by him; as, Röntgen apparatus.

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…

ccretion or influence. Sacred truths cleared from all rust and dross of human mixtures. Eikon Basilike.

means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me as to make me repent of that unjust act. Eikon Basilike.

y yet survive the malice of my enemies, although they should be satiated with my blood. Eikon Basilike.

ounds to our passions by reason, to our errors by truth, and to our schisms by charity. Eikon Basilike.

, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal. [Written variously, scon, skone, skon, etc.] [Scot.] Burns.

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

ours 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.

isadvantage in the field, in an orderly way, than scuffle with an undisciplined rabble. Eikon Basilike.

Consisting of seventy days, years, etc.; reckoned by seventies. Our abridged and septuagesimal age. Sir T. Browne.

petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. Neither sharks for a cup or a reckoning. Bp. Earle.