or Accoant, in a general sense, a computation or reckoning of any thing by numbers. Collectively it is used to express the books which merchants, traders, bankers, &c., use for recording their transactions in business. See Book-keeping.

Chamber of Accounts, in the French polity, a sovereign court of great antiquity, which took cognizance of and registered the accounts of the king's revenue; nearly the same with the English Court of Exchequer.

Account is taken sometimes, in a particular sense, for the computation of time: thus we say, the Julian Account, the Gregorian Account, &c., in which sense it is equivalent to style.