REGULAR 



was prohibited as tending to en- 

 hance the price of the provisions, 

 since every successive seller must 

 make a profit. With regrating, 

 forestalling (q.v.) and engrossing 

 (q.v.) were also forbidden. The 

 offences were misdemeanours pun- 

 ishable by fine and imprisonment, 

 and formerly also by the pillory 

 (q.v.). The early statutes directed 

 against them were repealed under 

 George III. See Profiteering. 



Regular (Lat. regula, rule). 

 Word used in two main senses. 

 Among the clergy a regular is a 

 member of a monastic order, the 

 opposite being the secular clergy 

 who are not monastic. A regular 

 soldier is one who joins the army 

 for a long period and gives his 

 whole time to it. Irregulars, on 

 the other hand, join for a period of 

 special need. See Army, British ; 

 Monasticism ; Secular. 



Regulator. Engineering term 

 with various meanings. (1) A 

 device for controlling the quantity 

 of fluid passing through an open- 

 ing. (2) A kind of valve, with shaft 

 and lever or hand-wheel, by means 

 of which an engine-driver regulates 

 the quantity of steam passing from 

 the boiler to the cylinders. The 



Regulator. Diagrams illustrating two 

 forms of regulator. See text 



handle is mounted in the driver's 

 cab, and is secured to a shaft pass- 

 ing into the boiler. At the front 

 end the shaft is secured to a grid or 

 perforated plate, which slides across 

 a corresponding fixed grid or per- 

 forated plate at the entrance to the 

 steam pipe. By rotating the handle 

 or wheel the shaft rotates and 

 brings the holes in the. two grids 

 opposite each other, thereby allow- 

 ing steam from the boiler to enter 

 the pipe and fill the cylinders. In 

 some cases a balanced valve of 

 mushroom type is substituted for 

 the grid type. (3) A device for 

 controlling the output of an electric * {tomans to 

 generator on a railway car and crushing de 

 maintaining constant voltage in 

 the lamp circuit. 



An automatic gas regulator is 

 one which may be set so that gas 



at a high pressure may be de- 

 livered at a constant lower pres- 

 sure, e.g. so that gas received at 

 from 1 to 300 Ib. per sq. in. may be 

 delivered at oz. per sq. in. v 



Fig. 1 shows a locomotive steam 

 supply regulator. A is a gridiron 

 valve) B the regulating lever worked 

 by the driver, C, steam inlet from 

 boiler, and D, steam outlet to 

 engine cylinder. Fig. 2 shows an 

 automatic pressure regulator for 

 steam, air, or gas. A is the high 

 pressure inlet, B the low pressure 

 outlet, D is a flexible diagram, E 

 a spring which determines pressure 

 at the outlet. When the pressure 

 exceeds the limit, D is forced up- 

 wards and closes the valve G. 



Regulus. First star in the con- 

 stellation of the Lion or Alpha 

 Leonis. In ancient Persia it was 

 the chief of the four royal stars. 

 It is a bright star of about the first 

 magnitude, and has a very small 

 parallax, making its actual bright- 

 ness, according to Sir Robert Ball, 

 equal to that of 1,000 of our suns. 

 It has a double satellite of the 

 eighth magnitude. 



Regulus. In metallurgy, a term 

 applied to metals not in a state of 

 purity, especially those obtained 

 from the oxide or 

 sulphide by fusing 

 with reducing 

 agents. The word 

 means "little 

 king," and was first 

 used to describe 

 impure gold. It is 

 now often applied 

 to antimony. A 

 violet -coloured 

 alloy of antimony 

 and copper is 

 known as regulus 

 of Venus. 



Regulus, MAR- 

 cus ATILITTS. Ro- 

 man general. He 

 became consul 



for the second time in 256 B.C., 

 and during his year of office, to- 

 gether with his colleague, defeated 

 the Carthaginian fleet at Ecnomus. 

 An expedition to Africa followed, 

 in which Regulus defeated the 

 Carthaginians and nearly reached 

 the capital. 

 But a Greek 

 mercenary 

 named Xanth-'' 

 ippus, taking 

 command of 

 the Carthagin- 

 i a n forces, 

 subjegte^ 



feat, Regulus 

 himself being 

 taken prisoner. 



M. Atilius Regulus, 

 Roman general 



From a butt 



According to the 



story, Regulus was sent by the 



REHEARSAL 



Carthaginians in 250 B.C., along 

 with an embassy, to Rome, under 

 parole to return if the peace which 

 the Carthaginians desired was not 

 arranged. So far from recom- 

 mending the Romans to conclude 

 peace, or even an exchange of 

 prisoners, in order that his own 

 liberty might be restored, Regulus 

 advised them against either policy, 

 returned to Carthage, and was 

 brutally put to death. This story 

 was probably invented to cover 

 up the treatment of Carthaginian 

 prisoners by the Romans. 



Rehan, ADA (1860-1916). 

 American actress. Born in Li- 

 merick, April 22, 1860, she spent 

 her childhood 

 in the U.S.A., 

 making her first 

 stage appear- 

 ance at New- 

 a r k, New 

 Jersey, in 1874. 

 She first played 

 in New York 

 in 1875, and 

 showed her 

 versatility as a 

 comedy actress 

 in over 200 

 parts in Augus- 

 tin Daly's com- 

 pany, 1879-99. 

 Herfame rested 

 chiefly on her 

 Shakespearean 

 renderings, no- 

 tably her Rosa- 

 lind, Portia, 

 Cordelia, Des- 

 demona, and 

 Mistress Ford. 

 She appeared 

 first in London 

 in 1884, returning in 1886, 1888, 

 1890, and 1893-95. Retiring in 

 1906, she died Jan. 6, 1916. 



Rehearsal (Fr/ re, again ; 

 heraer, to harrow). Word applied, 

 from its etymological significance 

 of going over the same ground 

 again, to the repetition of specific 

 words, as when the catechist asks 

 the candidate for confirmation to 

 rehearse the articles of his belief, 

 and in a secondary sense to a de- 

 tailed relation of events. Specific- 

 ally the term is given to the pre- 

 liminary practice of a musical or 

 dramatic composition before its 

 public performance. A full re- 

 hearsal is one at which the compo- 

 sition is performed in its entirety, 

 with all the actors, musicians, and 

 stage assistants present ; a dress 

 rehearsal, one at which the per- 

 formers wear the costumes de- 

 signed for the play ; and a public 

 rehearsal one to which the public 

 are admitted. Villiers, duke of 

 Buckingham, named one of his 

 comedies The Rehearsal. See Stage. 



The actress as 

 Rosalind 



