RECKLESS
Reck"less, a. Etym: [AS. recceleás, receleás.]
1. Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent. Chaucer.
2. Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney.
Syn.
— Heedless; careless; mindless; thoughtless; negligent;
indifferent; regardless; unconcerned; inattentive; remiss; rash.
— Reck"less*ly, adv.
— Reck"less*ness, n.
RECKLING
Reck"ling, a.
Defn: Needing care; weak; feeble; as, a reckling child. H. Taylor.
— n.
Defn: A weak child or animal. Tennyson.
RECKON Reck"on, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reckoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Reckoning.] Etym: [OE. rekenen, AS. gerecenian to explain; akin to D. rekenen to reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. See Reck, v. t.]
1. 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.
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. Luke xxii. 37. For him I reckon not in high estate. Milton.