Regretful (a.) Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.
Regrow (v. i. & t.) To grow again.
Regrowth (n.) The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.
Reguardant (a.) Same as Regardant.
Reguerdon (v. t.) To reward.
Regulable (a.) Capable of being regulated.
Regular (a.) Conformed to a rule; agreeable to an established rule, law, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.
Regular (a.) Governed by rule or rules; steady or uniform in course, practice, or occurence; not subject to unexplained or irrational variation; returning at stated intervals; steadily pursued; orderlly; methodical; as, the regular succession of day and night; regular habits.
Regular (a.) Constituted, selected, or conducted in conformity with established usages, rules, or discipline; duly authorized; permanently organized; as, a regular meeting; a regular physican; a regular nomination; regular troops.
Regular (a.) Belonging to a monastic order or community; as, regular clergy, in distinction dfrom the secular clergy.
Regular (a.) Thorough; complete; unmitigated; as, a regular humbug.
Regular (a.) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape; as, a regular flower; a regular sea urchin.
Regular (a.) Same as Isometric.
Regular (a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church.
Regular (a.) A soldier belonging to a permanent or standing army; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Regularia (n. pl.) A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
Regularity (n.) The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
Regularize (v. t.) To cause to become regular; to regulate.
Regularly (adv.) In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.
Regularness (n.) Regularity.
Regulated (imp. & p. p.) of Regulate
Regulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Regulate
Regulate (v. t.) To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
Regulate (v. t.) To put in good order; as, to regulate the disordered state of a nation or its finances.
Regulate (v. t.) To adjust, or maintain, with respect to a desired rate, degree, or condition; as, to regulate the temperature of a room, the pressure of steam, the speed of a machine, etc.
Regulation (n.) The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
Regulation (n.) A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.
Regulative (a.) Tending to regulate; regulating.
Regulative (a.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty.
Regulator (n.) One who, or that which, regulates.
Regulator (n.) A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as: (a) The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance. (b) The governor of a steam engine. (c) A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.
Regulator (n.) A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
Regulator (n.) A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes.
Reguline (a.) Of or pertaining to regulus.
Regulize (v. t.) To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.
Reguluses (pl. ) of Regulus
Reguli (pl. ) of Regulus
Regulus (n.) A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
Regulus (n.) The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores.
Regulus (n.) A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.
Regurgitate (v. t.) To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
Regurgitate (v. i.) To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
Regurgitation (n.) The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance
Regurgitation (n.) the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
Regurgitation (n.) The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.
Rehabilitated (imp. & p. p.) of Rehabilitate
Rehabilitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rehabilitate
Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.
Rehabilitation (n.) The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.
Rehash (v. t.) To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.
Rehash (n.) Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.
Rehear (v. t.) To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.
Rehearsal (n.) The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.
Rehearsed (imp. & p. p.) of Rehearse
Rehearsing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rehearse
Rehearse (v. t.) To repeat, as what has been already said; to tell over again; to recite.
Rehearse (v. t.) To narrate; to relate; to tell.
Rehearse (v. t.) To recite or repeat in private for experiment and improvement, before a public representation; as, to rehearse a tragedy.
Rehearse (v. t.) To cause to rehearse; to instruct by rehearsal.
Rehearse (v. i.) To recite or repeat something for practice.
Rehearser (n.) One who rehearses.
Reheat (v. t.) To heat again.
Reheat (v. t.) To revive; to cheer; to cherish.
Rehibition (n.) The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
Rehibitory (a.) Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action.
Rehire (v. t.) To hire again.
Rehypothecate (v. t.) To hypothecate again.
Reis (pl. ) of Rei
Rei (n.) A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent.
Reichsrath (n.) The parliament of Austria (exclusive of Hungary, which has its own diet, or parliament). It consists of an Upper and a Lower House, or a House of Lords and a House of Representatives.
Reichsstand (n.) A free city of the former German empire.
Reichstag (n.) The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire, which is composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. See Bundesrath.
Reif (n.) Robbery; spoil.
Reigle (n.) A hollow cut or channel for quiding anything; as, the reigle of a side post for a flood gate.
Reigle (v. t.) To regulate; to govern.
Reiglement (n.) Rule; regulation.
Reign (n.) Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion.
Reign (n.) The territory or sphere which is reigned over; kingdom; empire; realm; dominion.
Reign (n.) The time during which a king, queen, or emperor possesses the supreme authority; as, it happened in the reign of Elizabeth.
Reigned (imp. & p. p.) of Reign
Reigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reign
Reign (n.) To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.
Reign (n.) Hence, to be predominant; to prevail.
Reign (n.) To have superior or uncontrolled dominion; to rule.
Reigner (n.) One who reigns.
Reillume (v. t.) To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine.
Reilluminate (v. t.) To enlighten again; to reillumine.
Reillumination (n.) The act or process of enlightening again.
Reillumine (v. t.) To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
Reim (n.) A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.
Reimbark (v. t. & i.) See Reembark.
Reimbody (v. t. & i.) To imbody again.
Reimbursable (a.) Capable of being repaid; repayable.
Reimbursed (imp. & p. p.) of Reimburse
Reimbursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reimburse
Reimburse (v. t.) To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.
Reimburse (v. t.) To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation.
Reimbursement (n.) The act reimbursing.
Reimburser (n.) One who reimburses.
Reimplant (v. t.) To implant again.