The act of refusing; denial of anything demanded, solicited, or offered for acceptance.

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless.

One who refuses or rejects.

Refuge.

The quality of being refutable.

Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

Act of refuting; refutation.

The act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof.

Tending to refute; refuting.

To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.

One who, or that which, refutes.

To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.

A small portable organ, played with one hand, the bellows being worked with the other, -- used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

A sumptuous repast; a banquet.

The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.

One who regales.

A kind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.

Pertaining to regalia; pertaining to the royal insignia or prerogatives.

The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy.

In a regal or royal manner.

A look; aspect directed to another; view; gaze.

Worthy of regard or notice; to be regarded; observable.

Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.

One who regards.

Heedful; attentive; observant.

Concerning; respecting.

Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity.

To gather again.

Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.

See Rigel.

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.

Rule.

The office of ruler; rule; authority; government.

The state of being regenerated.

To generate or produce anew; to reproduce; to give new life, strength, or vigor to.

The quality or state of being rgenerate.

The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.

Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences.

So as to regenerate.

One who, or that which, regenerates.

Having power to renew; tending to reproduce; regenerating.

New birth; renewal.

One who rules or reigns; a governor; a ruler.

A female regent.

The office of a regent; regency.

To germinate again.

A germinating again or anew.

A register.

To get again.

An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist.

Governable; tractable.

Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide.

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng. Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman.

Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system.

To gild anew.

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.

Orderly government; system of order; adminisration.

To form into a regiment or into regiments.

In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.

The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense.

Of or relating to regimen; as, regiminal rules.

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.

Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.

Regal; royal.

To enroll one's name in a register.

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

The office of a register.

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.

One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3.

The office of a registrar.

A registrar.

To register.

The act of registering; registry; enrollment.

The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

Of or pertaining to a king; royal.

To give again; to give back.

To rule; to govern.

Regulation.

Regulative.

A flat, narrow molding, used chiefly to separate the parts or members of compartments or panels from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.

A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle.

Any dry dehiscent fruit.

Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.

The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule.

Exercising regal authority; reigning; as, a queen regnant.

Ruling; governing.

See Reign.

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back.

To retire; to go back.

To graft again.

The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

To buy in large quantities, as corn, provisions, etc., at a market or fair, with the intention of selling the same again, in or near the same place, at a higher price, -- a practice which was formerly treated as a public offense.

One who regrates.

The act or practice of regrating.

A returning or giving of thanks.

One guilty of regrating.

To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit.

A going back; a retrogression; a return.

A return or exchange of salutation.

To go back; to return to a former place or state.

The act of passing back or returning; retrogression; retrogradation.

In a regressive manner.

To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.

Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.

To reorganize into new groups; to reform a group that has been dispersed. The spelling without the hyphen is more common.

To grow again.

The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.

Same as Regardant.

To reward.

Capable of being regulated.

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.

A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.

The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

To cause to become regular; to regulate.

In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.

Regularity.

To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.