3. (Mil.) A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by
a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.
In the British army all the artillery are included in one regiment,
which (reversing the usual practice) is divided into brigades.
Regiment of the line (Mil.), a regiment organized for general service;
-- in distinction from those (as the Life Guards) whose duties are
usually special. [Eng.]
Reg"i*ment (-m?nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Regimented; p. pr. & vb. n.
Regimenting.] To form into a regiment or into regiments. Washington.
Reg`i*men"tal (-m?n"tal), a. Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment;
as, regimental officers, clothing.
Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of
the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the
rudimentary branches of education.
Reg`i*men"tal*ly, adv. In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops
classified regimentally.
Reg`i*men"tals (-talz), n. pl. (Mil.) The uniform worn by the officers
and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the
singular in the same sense. Colman.
Re*gim"i*nal (r?*j?m"?*nal), a. Of or relating to regimen; as,
regiminal rules.
Re"gion (r?"j?n), n. [F. région, from L. regio a direction, a boundary
line, region, fr. regere to guide, direct. See Regimen.] 1. 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.
If thence he 'scappe, into whatever world, Or unknown region.
Milton.
2. Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything;
neighborhood; vicinity; sphere. "Though the fork invade the region of
my heart." Shak.
Philip, tetrarch of .. the region of Trachonitis.
Luke iii. 1.