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To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [Archaic] This son of mine not recking danger. Sir P. Sidney. And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. Burns.

Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney.

Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. H. Taylor. -- n.

To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison.

One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:

To wreck. [Obs.]

See under Dead, a.

To checker; to diversify. [R. & Poet.] The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell.

To spinkle or mark with freckle or small discolored spots; to spot.

Marked with freckles; spotted. "The freckled trout." Dryden. The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak.

The state of being freckled.

Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled.

To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. Swift.

An erroneous computation.

To exceed in reckoning or computation. Bp. Pearson.

To reckon too highly.

A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. Dryden.

A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals.

To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall.