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REGISTER, Registrum, a publick Book, ferving to enter and record Memoirs, Aits, and Minutes, to be had recourfeto, occafionally, for the justifying of Matters of Fad, &c. See Re- cord.

Menage derives the Word, by Corruption, from Regefium, a Book containing Extracts of feveral Books, &c. collected together : Dicitur regiftrum qua(i iterum gefium. — Ochers derive it from the old French, gifher> to He down in a Bed, &c.

The Law of Scotland is render'd very eafy and regular, by means of the great Number of publick Regifiers, for the re- cording of the Conveyances of Lands, &c. of private Perfons. — Of thefe there are two Kinds: The one General, fix'd at 'Edin- burgh, under the Direction of the Lord Regifier, who before the Union was the fifth Officer of State, and befides the Regiftry, was Clerk of the Parliament, Treafury, Exchequer, and Seffion.

The other is particularly kept in the feveral Shires, Stewarties, and Regali cies. — The Clerks hereof are obliged to tranfmit the Regifiers of their respective Courts, to the general Regifier ; and the Notaries their Protocols : And here they are fo difpofed, that on demand the Lieges can have a view of any Writs which the Law requires to be regifier V, or which Parties for their Security have thought fit to record.

The Regifiers were fir ft let on Foot by Act of Parliament un- der King James VI. to the unfpeakable Advantage of the Subject.

No Man can have a right to any Eftate, but it mutt be regi- fired within forty Days of his becoming feiz'd of it, otherwife 'tis null : By this means all fecret Conveyances are cut off

Register is alfo ufed for the Clerk or Keeper of a Regifier, or Regifiry. See Clerk.

Of thefe we have feveral, denominated from the Regifiers they keep— as Regifier of the High Court of Delegates ; Regifier of the Arches Court of Canterbury ; Regifier of the Court of ^Admiralty ; Regifier of the Prerogative Court ; Regifier of the Garter, who is always Dean of Wmdfor. See Delegate, Arches, Admiral- ty, Prerogative, Garter, &c.

Register of a PariJ/j-Church, is a Book wherein the yearly Baptifms, Marriages, and Burials of each Parilh, are orderly regi- stered. See Parish, &c.

This Practice was laudably inftituted by that great, but unfor- tunate Perfon, Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Ejfex, Anno 1558. while he was Vicar-General to King Henry VIXI. See Bill of Mortality.

Register is alfo the Title of a Book, containing the Forms of molt of the Writs ufed in Common Law i cafl'd the Regifier of Writs. See Writ.

This Regifier, Coke on Littleton obferves, is one of the moft antient Books of the Common Law.

Register.-^/?//*, or Ships of Register, in Commerce, are Veffels to which the King of Spain, or the Council of the In- dies, grant Perrniilions to go and traffick in the Parts of the Spa- nijh Wefi-lndies. See Commerce.

They are thus called becaufe the Ships are to be regifiered be- fore they fet fail from Cadix, which is the Place where they usu- ally load for "Buenos Awes,

Thefe Veffels, by the Tenor of the Permit, are not to exceed three hundred Tuns : But there is that good understanding be- tween the Merchants and the Council of the Indies, that Ships of five or fix hundred Tun frequently pafs un-noted.

The Permiflions coft thirty thoufand Pieces of Eight, each: But were they to colt an hundred thoufand the Merchants would be Gainers, and the King of Spain a Lofer. — For though the Quantity and Quality of the Merchandices on-board, be always exprefs'd ; yet, by Force of Prefents, the Officers here and in the Indies, allow them to load and unload vaftly more than the Permiffion exprefles. — Veffels whole Certificate only mentions twelve thoufand Skins, and an hundred thoufand Pieces of Eight, have been known to have on-board above four Millions in Gold and Silver,' twenty fix thoufand Skins, dec. So that the King of Spain's Fifth, and his other Dues, werealmoft nothing to what they mould be.

Add to this, that in the Years 1702, 1703, &c. thefe Regifier Veffels, countenancing and backing each other, fold their Com- modities for above three hundred per Cent. Profit.— A Hat was fold for 18 Pieces of Eight,- an Ell of ordinary Cloth for 12 Pieces of Eight, &c.

Among the Regifier Veffels may be reckoned a Ship of five h'-indred Tuns, which the King of Spain allows the Englip South- Sea Company to feud each Year to the Fairs held at Porto Bello, Carthagena, &c. See Company.

Register, among Letter-Founders, is one of the inner Parts of the Mould wherein the Piinting-Types are caft. See Letter.

Its ufe is to direct the joining them juftly together again, after opening them to take out the new-caft Letter. See Letter- Founder, y.

Registers, in Cbymittry, are Holes, or Chinks, with Stop- ples to them, contrived in the Sides of Furnaces, to regulate the Fire, i. e. to make the Heat immediately more intenfe, or re- mifs, by opening them to let in the Air, or keeping them clofe, to exclude it. See Furnace, Fire, Heat, Degree, &c. « REGISTRING, in Printing, the difpofing of the Prefs fo as that the Lines and Pages printed on one Side of the Sheet, meet exactly againft thofe on the other j which is done by means

of two Points in the greater or outward Tympan. SeePRiNTJNG;'

REGISTRY, comprehends the Office, Books, and Rolls

wherein th« Proceedings of Chancery, or any fpiritual Court,

are regifter\l or recorded. See Register, Record, Roll <&c

RKGIUS-Profetfors.— King Henry VIII. founded five Lectures

in each of our Oniverfities ; viz. of Divinity, Hebrew, Greek,

Law, andPhyfick- the Readers of which Lectures are in the

Univerhty Statutes, called Regit Profefores. See Professor.

Regius Morbus. See Jaundice.

REGLET, or Riglet, in Architecture, a little flat narrow Moulding, ufed chiefly in Compartiments, and Pannels, to fepa- rate the Parts or Members from one another, and to form Knots, Frets, and other Ornaments. See Moulding, Fret, &c.

The Riglet, according to Daviler, differs from the Fillet and Liftei, in that it projects equally, like a Ruler. See Fillet and List.

The Word is a diminutive of the French, Regie, Rule. Reglets, or Riglets, in (Printing, are thin Rulers, or (lips of Wood of different Dimenlions, placed in the Chafe, be- tween the Pages, and at the extremes thereof, to keep them afun- der, and hold them tight. See Printing.

The Reglets make the chief Part of what they call the Fimii-- tare of the Chafe. See Chase.

They are particularly denominated from the Place they are in> in refpect of the Pages, Head-Sticks, Foot-Sticks, Gutter-Sticks* Sec.

The Term is alfo ufed abroad for a Ruler of Metal, $ of an Inch long, but which may be lengthened out by joining feveral together ; ufed to feparate the Columns, in Books that have fe- veral in the fame Page ; as alfo for Lines to Place the Notes on in Printing of Mufick.

Laftly, Reglet, is alfo a little thin flip of Wood ufed by fome Competitors to take off the Lines from the Compoling-ftick, and Place them on the Gaily, as fall as compofed. See Com- positor, Galley, &c.

REGRATOR, a Law Word, formerly ufed for one that bought Wholefale, or by the Great, and fold again by Retail.

The Term is now chiefly ufed to denote one that Buys and Sells again any Wares, or Visuals in the fame Market or Fair, or within five Miles of it.

Regrator is alfo ufed for a Perfon who furbifhes up old Moveables, to make them pais for new. See Furbisher.. - Among Mafons, &c. to regrate a Stone, is to take off the outer Surface of an old Hewn Stone, with the Hammer and Ripe, in order to whiten and make it look frefli again. See Stone and Masonry.

REGRESSION, or Retrogradation of Curves, &c. Sec Retrogradation, <&c. REGULA. See Rule. Regula, in Architecture. See Orlo. REGULAR denotes the Relation of any thing that is agree ; able or conformable to the Rules of Art. See Rule.

Thus we fay, a Regular Proceeding.— A Regular Building.— A Regular Poem, &c. Regular Verb, &c. See Verb, Poem, &e.

In this Senfe the Word fhnds oppofed to Irregular, or Anoma- lous. See Anomalous, <&c.

Regular Figure, in Geometry, is a Figure which is both e- quilaceral, and equiangular,- /. e. whofe Sides, and confequently, Angles, are all equal See Figure.

The Equilateral Triangle and Square are regular Figures. See Square and Triangle.

All other regular Figures confifting of more than four Sides, are called Regular Polygons. See Polygon.

Every regular Figure may be inferibed in a Circle. See Circle.

For the Dimenfons, Properties, &c. of Regular Figures, fee Po- lygon.

Regular Body, call'd alfo Platonic Body, is a Solid termina- ted on all Sides by regular and equal Planes, and whofe folid An- gles are all equal. See Body and Plane.

The Regular Bodies are five in Number ; viz. —The Cube' y which confifts of fix equal Squares ; xhzPyrawid or Tetrahedron of four equal Triangles; the Ottdoedron of Eight; the Dodecahedron of 12 ,' and the hofihedron of twenty ; fee each under its proper Article, Cube, Tetrahedron, Ochahedron, <&c.

Befide thefe five there can be no other Regular Bodies in Na- ture.

To meafure the Surface and Solidity of the five regular Bodies. The Solidity, &c. of the Cube is fliewn under the Article Cube.

The Tetrahedron being a Pyramid, and the O&ake dron a double Pyramid; and the Icofihdron confining of twenty triangular Pyra- mids ; and the Dodecaedron of twelve Quinquangular ones, whofe Bafes are in the Surface of the Icofihedron and Dodecahedron-^ and their Vertices meeting in a Centre : The Solidities of thefe Bodies are all found from what we have fhewn under the Article Pyramid.' Their Surface is had by finding the Area of one of the Planes, from the Lines that bounds it; (fee Triangle); and multiply- ing the Area thus found by the Number from which the Body is denominated ; e. gr. for the Tetraedron by 4 ; for the Hexahedron- or Cube, by fix ; for the Otfabedron by 8 ; for the Dodecahedron by