. (Phytogeog.) A depth of water so great that only those organisms can exist that do not assimilate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Sp., orig., a corrector. ] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. egregius; lit., separated or chosen from the herd, i. e., distinguished, excellent; e out + grex, gregis, herd. See Gregarious. ] Surpassing; extraordinary; distinguished (in a bad sense); -- formerly used with words importing a good quality, but now joined with words having a bad sense; as, an egregious rascal; an egregious ass; an egregious mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]

The egregious impudence of this fellow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

His [ Wyclif's ] egregious labors are not to be neglected. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being egregious. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + register: cf. F. enregistrer. Cf. Inregister. ] To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. [ 1913 Webster ]

To read enregistered in every nook
His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) A premium paid by a lessee when taking his lease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inregistered p. pr. & vb. n. Inregistering. ] [ Pref. in- in + register: cf. F. enregistrer. Cf. Enregister. ] To register; to enter, as in a register. [ R. ] Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Phytogeography) The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. regius regal. ] An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. regibilis, from regere to rule. ] Governable; tractable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. régicide; L. rex, regis, a king + caedere to kill. Cf. Homicide. ] 1. One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The killing or the murder of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. -dores /plu>. [ Sp., fr. regir to rule, L. regere. ] One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Specif.: The system of collecting taxes by officials who have either no interest or a very small interest in the proceeds, as distinguished from the ancient system of farming them out. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. Any kind of government monopoly (tobacco, salt, etc.) used chiefly as a means of taxation. Such monopolies are largely employed in Austria, Italy, France, and Spain. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To gild anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Regimen. ] 1. Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. [ 1913 Webster ]

I dream . . . of the new régime which is to come. H. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Hydraul.) The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow, as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sections in a given time, uniform régime being the condition when the flow is equal and uniform at all the cross sections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ancient régime, or
Ancien régime [ F. ], the former political and social system, as distinguished from the modern; especially, the political and social system existing in France before the Revolution of 1789. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. regimen, -inis, fr. regere to guide, to rule. See Right, and cf. Regal, Régime, Regiment. ] 1. Orderly government; system of order; adminisration. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp. (Med.), a systematic course of diet, etc., pursed with a view to improving or preserving the health, or for the purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gram.) (a) A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government. (b) The word or words governed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. régiment a regiment of men, OF. also government, L. regimentum government, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regimen. ] 1. Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen. [ Obs. ] Spenser. “Regiment of health.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day? Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A region or district governed. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment, which (reversing the usual practice) is divided into brigades. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regiment of the line (Mil.), a regiment organized for general service; -- in distinction from those (as the Life Guards) whose duties are usually special. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Regimented; p. pr. & vb. n. Regimenting. ] 1. To form into a regiment or into regiments. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. To form into classified units or bodies; to systematize according to classes, districts or the like.

The people are organized or regimented into bodies, and special functions are relegated to the several units. J. W. Powell. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. To organize and manage in a uniform and rigid manner; to control with a strict discipline. [ PJC ]

a. Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Mil.) The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or relating to regimen; as, regiminal rules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. région, from L. regio a direction, a boundary line, region, fr. regere to guide, direct. See Regimen. ] 1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract. [ 1913 Webster ]

If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world,
Or unknown region. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. “Though the fork invade the region of my heart.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis. Luke iii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The upper air; the sky; the heavens. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Anon the dreadful thunder
Doth rend the region. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The inhabitants of a district. Matt. iii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Place; rank; station. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He is of too high a region. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. regius royal, fr. rex, regis, king. ] Regal; royal. [ Obs. ] Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum, regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest. ] 1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. [ 1913 Webster ]

As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. Regisrar. ] One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mus.) (a) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale. E. Behnke. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Registere p. pr. & vb. n. Registering. ] [ Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n. ] 1. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enroll; to enter in a list. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such follow him as shall be registered. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To enroll one's name in a register. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a register. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. registrans, p. pr. ] One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. registrarius, or F. régistraire. See Register. ] One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a registrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A registrar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To register. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. registratio, or F. régistration. See Register, v. ] 1. The act of registering; registry; enrollment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where a register is kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A record; an account; a register. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L. regius, from rex, regis, a king. ] Of or pertaining to a king; royal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regius professor, an incumbent of a professorship founded by royal bounty, as in an English university. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give again; to give back. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. trans- + region. ] Foreign. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. wergild; wer a man, value set on a man's life + gild payment of money; akin to G. wehrgeld. √285. See Were a man, and Geld, n. ] (O. Eng. Law) The price of a man's head; a compensation paid of a man killed, partly to the king for the loss of a subject, partly to the lord of a vassal, and partly to the next of kin. It was paid by the murderer. [ Written also weregeld, weregelt, etc. ] Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]