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Registry

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

Regius

Of or pertaining to a king; royal.

Regive

To give again; to give back.

Reglet

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.

Regma

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

Regnal

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

Regnancy

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

Regnant

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

Regorge

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

Regrant

The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

Regrate

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.

Regrede

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

Regreet

A return or exchange of salutation.

Regress

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

Regression

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

Regret

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.

Regretful

Full of regret; indulging in regrets; repining.

regroup re-group

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

Regrowth

The act of regrowing; a second or new growth.

Regular

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.

Regularia

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

Regularity

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

Regularize

To cause to become regular; to regulate.

Regularly

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

Regulate

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

Regulation

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

Regulize

To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.

Regulus

A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.

Regurgitate

To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.

Regurgitation

The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.

Rehabilitate

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

The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.

Rehash

Something hashed over, or made up from old materials.

Rehear

To hear again; to try a second time; as, to rehear a cause in Chancery.

Rehearsal

The act of rehearsing; recital; narration; repetition; specifically, a private recital, performance, or season of practice, in preparation for a public exhibition or exercise.

Rehearse

To recite or repeat something for practice.

Rehibition

The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.

Rehibitory

Of or relating to rehibition; as, a rehibitory action.

Rei

A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of a cent.

Reichsrath

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.

Reichstag

The Diet, or House of Representatives, of the German empire (and of the Weimar Republic), which was composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people. This term is no longer (in 1997) applied to the German parliament. See also Bundesrath.

Reign

To possess or exercise sovereign power or authority; to exercise government, as a king or emperor;; to hold supreme power; to rule.

Reillume

To light again; to cause to shine anew; to relume; to reillumine.

Reim

A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.

Reimburse

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.

Reimport

To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back.

Reimportation

The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.

Reimprisonment

The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.

Rein

To be guided by reins.

Reindeer

Any ruminant of the genus Rangifer, of the Deer family, found in the colder parts of both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, and having long irregularly branched antlers, with the brow tines palmate.

Reinette

A name given to many different kinds of apples, mostly of French origin.

Reinless

Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

Reins

The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

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