v. t. To wreck. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) See under Dead, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Freak, v. t., Freckle. ] To checker; to diversify. [ R. & Poet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Freckled p. pr. & vb. n. Freckling ] To sprinkle or mark with freckles or small discolored spots; to spot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim., from the same root as freak, v. t. ] 1. A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any small spot or discoloration. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become covered or marked with freckles; to be spotted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with freckles; spotted. “The freckled trout.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being freckled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of or marked with freckles; sprinkled with spots; freckled. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An erroneous computation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in reckoning or computation. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reckon too highly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Recked obs. imp. Roughte); p. pr. & vb. n. Recking. ] [ AS. reccan, rēcan, to care for; akin to OS. rōkian, OHG. ruochan, G. geruhen, Icel. rækja, also to E. reckon, rake an implement. See Rake, and cf. Reckon. ] 1. To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This son of mine not recking danger. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

And may you better reck the rede
Than ever did the adviser. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concern; -- used impersonally. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

What recks it them? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To make account; to take heed; to care; to mind; -- often followed by of. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then reck I not, when I have lost my life. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I reck not though I end my life to-day. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of me she recks not, nor my vain desire. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. recceleás, rēceleás. ] 1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. [ 1913 Webster ]

It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent; indifferent; regardless; unconcerned; inattentive; remiss; rash. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Reck"less*ly, adv. -- Reck"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. H. Taylor. -- n. A weak child or animal. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Reckoned p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning. ] [ OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rehhanōn (cf. Goth. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The priest shall reckon to him the money according to the years that remain. Lev. xxvii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To count as in a number, rank, or series; to estimate by rank or quality; to place by estimation; to account; to esteem; to repute. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was reckoned among the transgressors. Luke xxii. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To charge, attribute, or adjudge to one, as having a certain quality or value. [ 1913 Webster ]

Faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. Rom. iv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause; as, I reckon he won't try that again. [ Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To number; enumerate; compute; calculate; estimate; value; esteem; account; repute. See Calculate, Guess. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculations, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically: (a) An account of time. Sandys. (b) Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn. [ 1913 Webster ]

A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Esteem; account; estimation. [ 1913 Webster ]

You make no further reckoning of it [ beauty ] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Navigation) (a) The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, -- in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); -- also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation. (b) The position of a ship as determined by calculation. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship. --
day of reckoning the day or time when one must pay one's debts, fulfill one's obligations, or be punished for one's transgressions. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. The breaking in pieces, or shattering, of a ship or other vessel by being cast ashore or driven against rocks, shoals, etc., by the violence of the winds and waves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A ship wrecked or destroyed upon the water, or the parts of such a ship; wreckage. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Destruction; ruin; irretrievable loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Holding faith and a good conscience, which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck. 1 Tim. 1. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was upon an Indian bill that the late ministry had made shipwreck. J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shipwrecked p. pr. & vb. n. Shipwrecking. ] 1. To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to experience shipwreck, as sailors or passengers. Hence, to cause to suffer some disaster or loss; to destroy or ruin, as if by shipwreck; to wreck; as, to shipwreck a business. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ D. trekschuit; trekken to draw + schuit a boat. Cf. Trackscout. ] A covered boat for goods and passengers, used on the Dutch and Flemish canals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & n. See 2d & 3d Wreak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wrak, AS. wræc exile, persecution, misery, from wrecan to drive out, punish; akin to D. wrak, adj., damaged, brittle, n., a wreck, wraken to reject, throw off, Icel. rek a thing drifted ashore, Sw. vrak refuse, a wreck, Dan. vrag. See Wreak, v. t., and cf. Wrack a marine plant. ] [ Written also wrack. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hard and obstinate
As is a rock amidst the raging floods,
'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate,
Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured. [ 1913 Webster ]

To the fair haven of my native home,
The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Wrecked p. pr. & vb. n. Wrecking. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck. [ 1913 Webster ]

Supposing that they saw the king's ship wrecked. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weak and envied, if they should conspire,
They wreck themselves. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To suffer wreck or ruin. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which has been wrecked; remains of a wreck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who causes a wreck, as by false lights, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder. (b) One who is employed in saving property or lives from a wrecked vessel, or in saving the vessel; as, the wreckers of Key West. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A vessel employed by wreckers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called because it often comes in with wreckage. ] (Zool.) A stone bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing wreck; involving ruin; destructive. “By wreckful wind.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Wreck, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrecking car (Railway), a car fitted up with apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by an accident, as by a collision. --
Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water from the hull of a wrecked vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrown on shore after a shipwreck. [ 1913 Webster ]