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- English Word Regulator Definition One who, or that which, regulates.
- English Word Regulator Definition 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.
- English Word Regulator Definition A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.
- English Word Regulator Definition 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.
- English Word Reguli Definition of Regulus
- English Word Reguline Definition Of or pertaining to regulus.
- English Word Regulize Definition To reduce to regulus; to separate, as a metal from extraneous matter; as, to regulize antimony.
- English Word Regulus Definition A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.
- English Word Regulus Definition 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.
- English Word Regulus Definition A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; -- called also the Lion's Heart.
- English Word Reguluses Definition of Regulus
- English Word Regurgitate Definition To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.
- English Word Regurgitate Definition To be thrown or poured back; to rush or surge back.
- English Word Regurgitation Definition The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance
- English Word Regurgitation Definition the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
- English Word Regurgitation Definition The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.
- English Word Rehabilitate Definition 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.
- English Word Rehabilitated Definition of Rehabilitate
- English Word Rehabilitating Definition of Rehabilitate
- English Word Rehabilitation Definition The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.