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To be out of her reckoning

Reckoning \Reck"on*ing\, n.

  1. The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation. Specifically:

    1. An account of time.
      --Sandys.

    2. Adjustment of claims and accounts; settlement of obligations, liabilities, etc.

      Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.
      --South.

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

  2. The charge or account made by a host at an inn.

    A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.
    --Addison.

  3. Esteem; account; estimation.

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

  4. (Navigation)

    1. 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.

    2. 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.

      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.