region 
5t. Place; rank; station; dignity. 
He is of too high a region ; he knows too much. 
Shak., M. W. of \V., iii. 2. 75. 
6f. Specifically, the space from the earth's sur- 
face out to the orbit of the moon: properly 
called the elemental region. 
The orb below 
As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder 
Doth rend the region. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 609. 
I should have fatted all the region kites 
With this slave's offal. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 607. 
7. In zoiigeog., a large faunal area variously 
limited by different authors. Especially (o) A 
realm ; one of several primary divisions of the earth's sur- 
face, characterized by its fauna : as, the Palearctic or the 
Nearctic region. The term acquired specific application 
to certain large principal areas from its use in this sense 
by P. L. Sclater in 1857. Sclater's regions, adopted with 
little modification by Gunther and Wallace, were six in 
number: the Palearctic, Ethiopian, Oriental or Indian, 
Australian, Nearctic, and Neotropical. (See these words.) 
Baird added a seventh, the West Indian, now considered 
a division of the Neotropical. In 1874 Sclater, following 
Huxley, recognized as primary divisions (1) Arctogsea, com- 
prising the Palearctic, Ethiopian, Indian, and Nearctic re- 
gions ; (2) Dendrogeea, represented by the Neotropical re- 
gion ; (3) Antarctogxa, with an Australasian region ; and 
(4) Ornithogsea, with a New Zealand region. (b) A secon- 
dary faunal area, the primary being called a realm : as, the 
Antillean, Central American, and Brazilian regions of the 
American Tropical realm. In this sense it has been used 
by most American zoologists. Various other divisions 
have been proposed, as by A. Murray in 1866, Huxley in 
1868, W. T. Blanford in 1869, E. BIyth in 1871, A. Newton 
in 1875, T. (3111 in 1878, and J. A. Alleji in 1878. Each of 
the main divisions, however denned by different natural- 
ists, is subdivided into several subregions or provinces, 
more or less minutely In different systems. Thus, for ex- 
ample, the Ethiopian region is divided by Newton into the 
Libyan, Guinean. Caflrarian, llozambican, and Madagas- 
carian subregions, and the Libyan subregion itself into the 
Arabian, Egyptian, Abyssinian, and Gambian provinces. 
The waters of the globe have been either included in the 
prime divisions based on the land faunas, or segregated in 
peculiar ones. Abdominal regions. See abdominal. 
Agrarian region, anal region. See the adjectives. 
Axillary region, a region on the side of the thorax, ex- 
tending from the axilla to a line drawn from the lower bor- 
der of the mammary to that of the scapular region. Ba- 
silar region, the region of the base of the skull. Blue- 
grass region. See 0ro8. Broca's region. Same as 
Broca's convolution. See convolution. Ciliary region, 
that part of the eyeball just back from the cornea which 
corresponds to the ciliary muscle and processes. Clavic- 
ular region, the region on the front of the chest imme- 
diately over the clavicle. Clypeal region. See clypeal. 
Cordilleran region. See cordillera. Cyclic, dorso- 
lumbar, epigastric, gluteal, hypogastric region. See 
the adjectives. Hyomental region, the space between 
the lower jaw and the hyoid bone. Hypochondriac 
region, (a) Of the abdomen. See abdominal regions, (b) 
Of the thorax, same as inframammary region. Iliac re- 
gion. See abdominal regions. Indo-PaciflC region. 
See Indo- Pacific. Infra-axillary region, the region on 
the side of the chest extending from the axillary region to 
the free border of the ribs. Also called subaxillary re- 
gion. Infraelavicular region. See infradavieular. 
Infrahyoid region, the space between the hyoid bone 
and the sternum. Inframammary region. See infra- 
mammary. Infrascapular region, the region on the 
back of the thorax on either side of the median line below a 
horizontal line through the inferior angle of each scapula. 
Also called subscapular region. IntOrSCapulaT region, 
the region on the back of the thorax between the shoulder- 
blades. Ischiorectal region, the space corresponding 
to the posterior part of the pelvic outlet. Lenticulostri- 
ate region, the anterior parts of the lenticular and caudate 
nuclei and the intervening part of the internal capsule. 
Lenticulothalamic region, the posterior part of the 
lenticular nucleus, the optic thalamus, and the interven- 
ing part of the internal capsule. Lumbar region. See 
lumbari. Mammary region, the region on the front of 
the chest extending from the upper border of the third to 
the upper border of the sixth rib.- Mesogastric region, 
the umbilical and right and left lumbar regions taken to- 
gether. Multiply-connected region, in math., a region 
such that between any two points of it several paths can 
be drawn which cannot be changed one into the other by 
gradual changes or variations without going out of the re- 
gion in question. Parasternal, pelvic, Polynesian, 
popliteal, precordlal, etc., region. See the adjectives. 
Region of calms. See calmi. Sternal region, su- 
perior and inferior. See sternal. Subaxlllary region. 
Same as infra-axillary region. Subclavicular region. 
Same as ii^fraclavicular region. Submammary region. 
Same as inframammary region. Subscapular region. 
Same as infrascapular region. Suprahyoid region, the 
region of the front of the neck above the hyoid bone ; the 
hyomental region. Supramammary region. Same 
as infradavieular region. Suprascapular region, the 
region on the back above the spine of the scapula. Su- 
prasternal region. See suprasternal. = Syn. 1. Quarter, 
locality, clime, territory. 
regional (re'jon-al), a. [< F. regional = Sp. Pg. 
regional = It. regionale, < LL. regionalis, of or 
belonging to a region or province, < L. regio(n-), 
a region, province : see region.'] 1. Oforper- 
taining to a particular region or place ; sec- 
tional; topical; local. 
The peculiar seasonal and regional distribution of hur- 
ricanes. The Atlantic, XLIX. 334. 
2. Of or pertaining to division into regions, as 
in anatomy and zoogeography; topographical. 
It is curious that the Japanese should have anticipated 
Europe in a kind of rude regional anatomy. 
0. W. Holme*. Med. Essays, p. 224. 
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Regional anatomy. Same as topographical anatomy. 
See anatomy. 
regionally (re'jon-al-i), adv. With reference 
to a region or particular place; topically; lo- 
cally; in zoiigeog. ,-wifh reference to faunal re- 
gions or areas. 
He thought it was the duty of the surgeon to treat it 
regionally. Medical News, LII. 273. 
The preservation of rock-oils in every formation, of 
every geological age, all over the world subject, however, 
locally or regionally, to subsequent change or destruction. 
Science, VIII. 233. 
regionarius (re"ji-o-na'ri-us), . ; pi. regionarii 
(-i). [NL., <L. regio(n-), a region: see region.'] 
A title given to various Roman Catholic eccle- 
siastics who are assigned to duty in or juris- 
diction over certain regions or districts in the 
city of Rome. 
regionary (re'jon-a-ri), a. [< region + -ary.~] 
1. Of or pertaining to a region or regions. 
But to this they attributed their successes, namely, to 
the tropical and regionary deities, and their entertaining 
so numerous a train of gods and goddesses. 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 104. 
2. Of or pertaining to a region or administra- 
tive district, especially of the city of Rome. 
Regionary deacon. See deacon. 
From the time of Honorius II., Rome had twelve re- 
gionary deacons. Rom. Cath. Diet., p. 714. 
regionic (re-ji-on'ik), a. [< region + -ic.] Same 
as regional. [Rare.] 
A regionic association. 
Buck's Handbook of Med. Sciences, IV. 758. 
regioust (re'ji-us), a. [= Sp. Pg. It. regio, < L. 
regitts, kingly, royal, regal, < rex (rcg-), a king: 
see rex.] Pertaining to a king; royal. J. Har- 
rington. 
register 1 (rej'is-ter), n. [< ME. regester (= D. 
G. Sw. Dan. register), < OF. registre, F. registre, 
a record, register, = Pr. registre = Sp. registro 
= Pg. registro, registo, resisto = It. registro, a 
register, record, < ML. registrum, also registra, 
register, a register, an altered form of reges- 
tum, a book in which things are recorded, a 
register, orig. pi., L. regesta, things recorded, 
records, neut. pi. of regcstus, pp. of regerere, 
record: see regest, n. and v. In the later 
senses 6-10, from the verb, and in part practi- 
cally identical, as ' that which registers,' with 
register 2 , 'one who registers': see register?.] 
1. An official written account or entry, usually 
in a book regularly kept, as of acts, proceed- 
ings, or names, for preservation or for refer- 
ence; a record; a list; a roll; also, the book 
in which such a record is kept: as, a parish 
register; a hotel register. 
Of smiles fynde I nat in this registre. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1954. 
Each time of sorrow is naturally evermore a register of 
all such grievous events as have happened either in or 
near about the same time. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 72. 
2. In old Eng. law, a compilation of the forms 
of writs in use, both original and judicial, which 
seems to have grown up gradually in the hands 
of clerks and of copyists, and therefore to vary 
much in different copies. Harvard Law Re- 
view, Oct., 1889. 3. In com., a document is- 
sued by the customs authorities as evidence of 
a ship's nationality. See registration of British 
ships, under registration. 4. The printed list 
of signatures at the end of early printed books. 
5. In music: (a) The compass or range of a 
voice or an instrument. (6) A particular series 
of tones, within the compass of a voice or of cer- 
tain instruments, which is produced in the same 
way and with the same quality : as, the chest- 
register of the voice, or the chalumeau regis- 
ter of the clarinet. The vocal registers are distin- 
guished by quality more than by pitch, since the same 
tone can often be produced in more than one register. 
The difference lies in the way in which the larynx is used, 
but the exact nature of the process is disputed. The so- 
called head-register and chest-register include tones that 
call the cavities of the head and chest respectively into 
decided sympathetic vibration. The different vocal qual- 
ities are also called the low, middle, and high registers, 
or the thick, middle, and thin registers, depending in the 
first case upon the pitch of the tones for which they are 
best suited, and in the second upon the supposed condi- 
tion of the vocal cords in producing them, or the quality 
of the tones produced. 
It is true that alto boys cannot be made effective when 
choir-masters prohibit the use of the chest register. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 73. 
6. In organ-building: (a) Same as stop or stoji- 
l.'iioh. (A) A perforated frame or board for hold- 
ing a set of trackers in place. 7. A device for 
registering automatically the number of revolu- 
tions made or the amount of work done by ma- 
chinery, or for recording the pressure of steam, 
air, or water, or other data, by means of appara- 
register 
tus deriving motion from the object or objects 
whose force, velocity, etc., it is desired to as- 
certain. 8. A contrivance for regulating the 
passage of heat or air, as the draft-regulating 
plate of a furnace, or the damper-plate of a loco- 
motive engine; a perforated plate with valves 
governing the opening into a duct which ad- 
mits warm air into a room for heat, or fresh 
air for ventilation, or which allows foul air to 
escape. 
Look well to the register ; 
And let your heat still lessen by degrees. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
I should like to know if an artist could ever represent 
on canvas a happy family gathered round a hole in the floor 
called a register. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 13. 
9. In printing, exact adjustment of position in 
the presswork of books or papers printed on 
both sides of the leaf. When pages, columns, and 
lines are truly square, and back one another precisely on 
the leaf, or when two or more adjacent colors meet with- 
out impinging, they are said to be in register; otherwise, 
out of register. 
10. The inner part of the mold in which types 
are cast. 11. In bookbinding, a ribbon at- 
tached to a full-bound book to serve as a 
marker of place for the reader Anemometro- 
graphlc register. See anemometer. Army Register. 
See army-list, 1. Lloyd's Register of British and For- 
eign Shipping. See Lloyd's. Meteorological register. 
See meteorological table (a), under meteorological. Morse 
register. Same as indicator, 1 (b). Out of register. 
See def. 9. Parish register, a book in which the births, 
deaths, and marriages that occur in a given parish are 
registered. Register counties, in Eng. law, certain 
counties or parts of counties, including Middlesex except 
London, the North, East, and West Ridings of Yorkshire, 
and Kingston-upon-Hull, in which peculiar laws for regis- 
tration of matters affecting land-titles are in force. 
Register ship, a ship which once obtained permission 
by treaty to trade to the Spanish West Indies, and whose 
capacity, per registry, was attested before sailing. 
Register thermometer. See thermometer. Seamen's 
register, a record containing the number and date of 
registration of each foreign-going ship and her regis- 
tered tonnage, the length and general nature of her voyage 
or employment, the names, ages, etc., of the master and 
crew, etc. [Eng.] Ship's register, a document show- 
ing the ownership of a vessel and giving a general de- 
scription of her. It is used as a permit issued by the United 
States government to give protection and identification 
to an American vessel in a foreign trade, being prac- 
tically for the vessel what a deed is for a house. To 
make register, in printing, to arrange on the press 
pages, plates, or woodcuts in colors exactly in their proper 
positions. = Syn. 1. Catalogue, etc. (see lists), chronicle, ar- 
chives. 
register 1 (rej'is-ter), t>. [< F. registrer = Pr. 
Sp. Pg. registrar = It. registrare, < ML. regis- 
trare, register; from the noun: see register 1 , .] 
1. trans. 1. To enter in a register; indicate by 
registering; record in any way. 
Here are thy virtues shew'd, here register'd, 
And here shall live forever. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, v. 2. 
Many just and holy men, whose names 
Are register'd and calendar'd for saints. 
Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites. 
The gray matter of the nervous system is the part in 
which sensory impulses are received and registered. 
Science, V. 258. 
2. To mark or indicate on a register or scale. 
3. In rope-making, to twist, as yarns, into a 
strand. -Light-registering apparatus. See light*. 
= Syn. 1. See record. 
II. intrans. 1. To enter one's name, or cause 
it to be entered, in a register, as at a hotel, 
or in the registry of qualified voters. 2. In 
printing, etc. : (a) To correspond exactly in 
symmetry, as columns or lines of printed mat- 
ter on opposite sides of a leaf, so that line 
shall fall upon line and column upon column. 
(6) To correspond exactly in position, as in 
color-printing, so that every different color- 
impression shall fall exactly in its proper place, 
forming no double lines, and neither leaving 
blank spaces nor passing the limits proper to 
any other color. 3. In organ-playing, same as 
registrate. 
register 2 (rej'is-ter), n. [An altered form, due 
to confusion with register 1 , of registrer, now 
usually written registrar: see registrar.] 1. 
One who registers : same as registrar. 
O comfort-killing Night ! . . . 
Dim register and notary of shame ! 
Shot., Lucrece, 1. 705. 
And hauing subscribed their names, certaine Registers 
copie the said Orations. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 439. 
Specifically 2. In law: (a) An officer of a 
United States district court, formerly appointed 
under the United States bankruptcy act, for the 
purpose of assisting the judge in the perform- 
ance of his duties under that act, by attending 
to matters of detail and routine, or purely ad- 
ministrative in their character. Bump. (o) In 
some parts of the United States, an officer who 
