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Register ships, in commerce, are ves- 
sels which obtain a permission either from 
the King of Spain, or the Council of the In- 
dies, to traffic in the ports of the Spanish 
West Indies ; which are thus called from 
their being registered before they set sail 
from Cadiz, for Buenos Ayres. Each of 
these permissions costs 30,000 pieces of 
eight, and by the tenor of the cedula, or 
permit, they are not to exceed 300 tons ; 
but there is such a good understanding be- 
tween the merchants, and the Council of 
the Indies, that ships of 5 or 600 tons fre- 
quently pass unnoted ; and though the quan- 
tity and quality of the merchandizes on 
board are always expressed, yet, by means 
of presents, the officers, both in Spain aijd 
the Indies, allow them to load and unload 
vastly more than the permission expresses. 
Register, in printing, is disposing the 
forms on the press, so as that the lines and 
pages printed on one side of the sheet fall 
exactly on those of the other. 
Register, among letter founders, is one 
of the inner parts of the mould in which 
the printing types are cast. Its use is to 
direct the joining the mould justly together 
again, after opening it to take out the new 
cast letter. 
Registers, in chemistry, are holes, or 
chinks with stopples, contrived in the sides 
of furnaces, to regulate the fire ; that is, to 
m&e the heat more intense, or remiss, by 
opening them to let in the air, or keeping 
them close to exclude it. 
REGULAR, denotes any thing that is 
agreeable to the rules of art : thus, we say 
a regular building, verb, &c. A regular fi- 
gure, in geometry, is one whose sides, and 
consequently angles, are equal ; and a re- 
gular figure with three or four sides is com- 
monly termed an equilateral triangle, or 
square, as all others with more sides are call- 
ed regular polygons. All regular figures may 
be inscribed in a circle. A regular solid, 
called also a platonic body, is that termi- 
nated on all sides by regular and equal 
planes, and whose solid angles are all equal. 
See Body. 
REGULUS, in chemistry, an imperfect 
metallic substance, that falls to the bottom 
of the crucible, in the melting of ores, or 
impure metallic substance^. 
Regulus, in astronomy, a star of the first 
magnitude, in the constellation Leo, called 
also, from its situation. Cor Leonis, or the 
lion’s heart. Its longitude, according to 
Mr. Flamsteed, is 25° 31' 20 ", and its lati- 
tude 0“ 26' 38" north. 
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REHEARING, in cliancery, is whets 
either of the parties thinks himself aggrieved 
by a decree, and petitions the Chancellor 
for the cause to be heard again. 
REIN deer. See Cervds. 
REJOINDER, in law, is the name of a 
part of the pleadings where the defendant 
answers to the plaintiffs replication. 
RELEASE, in law. Releases are dis- 
tinguished into express releases in deed, and 
those arising by operation of law ; and are 
made of lands and tenements, goods and 
chattels, or of actions real, personal, and 
mixed. By a release of all demands, all 
actions real, personal, and mixed, and all 
actions of appeal, are extinct. The release 
of a right to lands is now become the most 
usual form of conveyance. A lease is made 
for a year, which puts the party in posses- 
sion, and then a release of all the right to 
the lessee and bis heirs is made the next 
day ; which, by the operation of the statute 
of uses, conveys the whole fee. This is 
called a conveyance by lease and release. 
RELHANIA, in botany, so named in 
honour of the Rev. Richard Relhan, a ge- 
nus of the Syngenesia Polygamia Superflua 
class and order. Natural order of Composifse 
Discoideae. Essential character : calyx im- 
bricate, scariose ; corollets of the ray very 
many ; pappus membranaceous, cyhndri- 
cal, short; receptacle chaffy. There are 
sixteen species, all natives of the Cape of 
Good Hope. 
RELIEF, a certain sum of money which 
the tenant holding by knight’s service, 
grand serjeantry, or other tenure, for which 
homage or legal service is due, and being 
at full age at the death of his ancestor, 
formerly paid to his lord at his entrance. 
RELIEVO, or Relief, in sculpture, &c. 
is the projecture or standing out of a figure, 
which arises prominent from the ground or 
plan on which it is formed ; whether that 
figure be cut with the chissel, moulded, or 
cast. 
There are three kinds or degrees of re- 
lievo, riz. alto, basso, and demi-relievo. The 
alto-relievo, called also haut relief, or high 
relievo, is when the figure js formed after 
nature, and projects as much as the life. 
Basso-relievo, bass-relief, or low-relievo, is 
when the work is raised but a little from the 
ground, as in medals, and the frontispieces 
of buildings ; and particularly in the histo- 
ries, festoons, foliages, and other ornaments 
of friezes. Demi-relievo is when one half 
of the figure rises from the plan. When, in 
a basso-rqlievo, there are parts that stand 
