He is of too high a region.
Shak.
Re"gion*al (-al), a. Of or pertaining to a particular region;
sectional.
Re"gi*ous (-j?*?s), a. [L. regius royal, fr. rex, regis, king.] Regal;
royal. [Obs.] Harrington.
Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), n. [OE. registre, F. registre, LL.
registrum,regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry
back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf.
Regest.] 1. A written account or entry; an official or formal
enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll;
a schedule.
As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the
register of your own.
Shak.
2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the
merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) A
certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to
the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its
name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the
vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of
title.
3. [Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. Regisrar.] One who registers or records;
a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the
duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of
deeds.
4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A
contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or
the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic
apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A
machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing
through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.
5. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for
regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement
containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or
passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for
regulating ventilation.
6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b)
The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or
reverse sides of the sheet. (c) The correspondence or adjustment of the
several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in
chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings.
See Register, v. i. 2.
7. (Mus.) (a) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion
of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given
compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano
register; the tenor register.
In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends
below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin
register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the
thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the
thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull
quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for
tones below the proper limit on the scale. E. Behnke.
(b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms,
marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.
Syn. -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See
List.
Reg"is*ter (rj"s*tr), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Registered (- trd); p. pr. &
vb. n. Registering.] [Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See
Register, n.] 1. To enter in a register; to record formally and
distinctly, as for future use or service.