reckon

verb

1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate.

   “then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain”

   “I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church.”

   “For all the king counted and pointed and reckoned, he could not find as much as a hair of them missing.”

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.

   “He was reckoned among the transgressors”

   “For him I reckon not in high estate Whom long descent of birth, Or the sphere of fortune, raises”

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

   “[…] faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.”

   “Without her eccentricities being reckoned to her for a crime.”

4. (colloquial)To conclude, as by an enumeration and balancing of chances; hence, to think; to suppose; -- followed by an objective clause

   “I reckon he won't try that again.”

   “I’ve just heard from the repairman: it's going to cost £1000. I'd reckoned it’d be £500 at most.”

   “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”

   “Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin.”

   “The working life span of a passenger carriage, on average, is between 30 and 35 years, so a steady replacement takes place quite naturally. The life span of a station, however, cannot be so easily reckoned, for it depends largely on the rehabilitation and upkeep of the existing structures.”

5. To reckon with something or somebody or not, i.e. to reckon without something or somebody: to take into account, deal with, consider or not, i.e. to misjudge, ignore, not take into account, not deal with, not consider or fail to consider; e.g. reckon without one's host

   “There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.”

6. (intransitive)To make an enumeration or computation; to engage in numbering or computing.
7. To come to an accounting; to draw up or settle accounts; to examine and strike the balance of debt and credit; to adjust relations of desert or penalty.

noun

1. (informal)An impression or opinion.

   “Shaggy asked him, ' 'Ow dew yew a reckon on your turnips, Fred?'”

   “I wouldn't get much of an idea what the site was like until daylight but it was close to the cook fires and the food stalls and entertainment tents so, my reckons it was perfect.”

   “I have beckoned vigorously & my reckons have passed into a vast sea of stones, rearing the strong feelings, the dawn of light emerged; surfacing the depths of the deep & the depths was beckoning coldly.”

   “Here's my reckon on mass incarceration.”

2. (alt-of, alternative, dialectal)Alternative form of rackan (“chain”).