[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

reckon \reck"on\, v. i.
   1. to make an enumeration or computation; to engage in
      numbering or computing. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to come to an accounting; to make up accounts; to settle;
      to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to
      adjust relations of desert or penalty.
      1913 webster

            "parfay," sayst thou, "sometime he reckon shall."
      --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   to reckon for, to answer for; to pay the account for. "if
      they fail in their bounden duty, they shall reckon for it
      one day." --bp. sanderson.

   to reckon on to reckon upon, to count or depend on; to
      include as a factor within one's considerations.

   to reckon with,
      a to settle accounts or claims with; -- used literally
          or figuratively.
      b to include as a factor in one's plans or calculations;
          to anticipate.
      c to deal with; to handle; as, i have to reckon with
          raising three children as well as doing my job.
          1913 webster +pjc

                after a long time the lord of those servants
                cometh, and reckoneth with them.  --matt. xxv.
                                                  19.
          1913 webster

   to reckon without one's host, to ignore in a calculation or
      arrangement the person whose assent is essential; hence,
      to reckon erroneously.
      1913 webster
see also:
to reckon for to reckon on to reckon upon to reckon with to reckon without one's host 

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