You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward
fading benefit nature bestowed.
Sir P. Sidney.
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.
To be out of her reckoning, to be at a distance from the place
indicated by the reckoning; -- said of a ship.
Re*claim" (r*klm"), v. t. To claim back; to demand the return of as a
right; to attempt to recover possession of.
A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetually
reclaiming its prior occupancy.
W. Coxe.
Re*claim" (r*klm"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reclaimed (-klmd"); p. pr. &
vb. n. Reclaiming.] [F. réclamer, L. reclamare, reclamatum, to cry out
against; pref. re- re- + clamare to call or cry aloud. See Claim.] 1.
To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain
customary call. Chaucer.
2. To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the
purpose of subduing or quieting.
The headstrong horses hurried Octavius . . . along, and were deaf
to his reclaiming them.
Dryden.
3. To reduce from a wild to a tamed state; to bring under discipline;
-- said especially of birds trained for the chase, but also of other
animals. "An eagle well reclaimed." Dryden.
4. Hence: To reduce to a desired state by discipline, labor,
cultivation, or the like; to rescue from being wild, desert, waste,
submerged, or the like; as, to reclaim wild land, overflowed land, etc.
5. To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to
draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.
It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions
of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
Rogers.