regional

[Latin regional is, from regio a a region (q. v.).] Of or pertaining to a particular region or district. *re-gi-ous, a. [Latin regius , from rex (gen it. reg is ) = a king.] Pertaining to a king; royal, regal. reg-is-ter, *reg-is-tre, s. [Fr. registre , from Low Latin registrum , from regestum a book in which things are recorded ( regeruntur ), from reges tus , pa. par. of regero =to bring back, to record: reback, and gero to bring; Sp. & Ital. registro , Port . registro , reg is to .] IMG:content-0377.png:[blocks in formation] register 2. One who registers; a registrar. (LORD-REGIS TER.] 3. A record, a memorial. "And now, sole register that these things were, Two solitary greetings have I heard. Words worth: To a Friend. (Aug. 7, 1847.) 4. A device for automatically indicating the number of revolutions made or amount of work done by machinery, or recording steam, air, or water pre ure, or other data, by means of apparatus deriving motion from the object or objects whose force, distance, velocity, direction, elevation, or numeric a) amount it is desired to ascertain. There are various special appliances of this kind, each particularly adapted for the peculiar operation which is to be investigated; many depending on the action of clock-work mechanism, which indicates results on dials, but others, as in registering meteorological instruments, having means for recording varying conditions, as with the anemometer, barograph, . 5. A sliding plate acting as a damper or valve to close or open an aperture for the pa age of air. (1) The draft-regulating plate of a stove or fur nace; the damper-plate of a locomotive engine. (2) A perforated plate governing the opening into a duct which admits warm air into a room for heat, or fresh air for ventilation, or which allows foul air to escape. IMG:content-0378.png:[blocks in formation] (4) The knob or handle by means of which the performer commands any given stop. 3. Printing: (1) The agreement of two printed forms to be applied to the same sheet, either on the same or the respective sides thereof. The former is used in chromatic printing, where a number of colors are laid on consecutively. The latter is found in book and newspaper printing, where the correspondence of pages or columns on the respective sides is required. (2) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. 4. Teleg.: The part of a telegraph apparatus used for recording upon a strip of paper the me age received. (1) Lloyd's register : [LLOYD'S]. (2) Lord Register : Lord Clerk Register : Scots Law: A Scottish officer of state, having the custody of the archives. (3) Morse register : Teleg.: Morse's indicator-telegraph. (4) Seamen's register : A register or record of the number and date of registration of each foreign. going ship, with her registered tonnage, the length and general nature of her voyage and employment, the names, ages, ., of the master and crew, . register-grate, subst . A grate furnished with a register or apparatus for regulating the admi ion of air and the heat of the room. IMG:content-0379.png:[blocks in formation] Print.: A device for puncturing and holding a sheet of paper, serving as a guide in laying on the sheet, so that the impre ions on each side shall accurately correspond or register correctly. One is placed on each side of the tympan and in cylinder machines on the form. *register-ship, s . A ship which once obtained permi ion by treaty to trade to the Spanish West Indies, and whose capacity, per registry, was at tested before sailing. register-thermometer, s. [THERMOMETER.] reg-is-ter, *reg-es-ter, *reg-es-tre, v. t. & i [REGISTER, 8.] A. Transitive : I. Ordinary Language : 1. To enter in a register or record; to record. She that will sit in shop for five hours' space, And register the sins of all that pa ." Cowley: Character of an Holy Sister. 2. To record; to indicate by registering. "Last night at Driffield the thermometer registered five degrees of frost." -London Evening Standard. II. Rope - making : To twist, as yarns, into a strand. B. Intransitive : Printing: To correspond exactly, as columns or lines of printed matter on opposite sheets, so that when brought together line shall fall upon line, and column upon column. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-0380.png:[blocks in formation] sion. *rěg-Is-tër-er, s. [Eng. register , v.; -er.] One who registers; a registrar, a recorder. "The Greekes, the chiefe registerers of worthy actes."Goldinge: Cæsar. (To the Reader, *7.) reg-Is-ter-ing, pr . par . or a . [REGISTER, v.] registering-instruments, s. pl . Instruments or apparatus which register or record automatically, as gauges, indicators, .