(1):

(n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.

(2):

(n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

(3):

(n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

(4):

(n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

(5):

(n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.

(6):

(v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.

(7):

(v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.

(8):

(v. t.) To recount; to relate.

(9):

(v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

(10):

(v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

(11):

(v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

(12):

(n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

(13):

(v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.

(14):

(n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.