Emily Dickinson Lexicon

REG'LE-MENT, n. [Fr.]

Regulation. [Not used.] – Bacon.

REG'LET, n. [Fr. from règle, rule, L. regula, rego.]

A ledge of wood exactly planed, used by printers to separate lines and make the work more open.

REG'NAN-CY, n.

Reign; predominance.

REG'NANT, a. [Fr. from regner, L. regno, to reign.]

1. Reigning; exercising regal authority; as, a queen regnant. The modern phrase is queen regent. – Wotton.
2. Ruling; predominant; prevalent; having the chief power; as, vices regnant. We now say, reigning vices. – Swift.

RE-GORGE, v.t. [regorj'; Fr. regorger; re and gorge.]

1. To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back or out again. – Hayward.
2. To swallow again. – Dryden.
3. To swallow eagerly. – Milton.

RE-GORG'ED, pp.

Ejected again from the stomach or a deep place.

RE-GRADE, v.i. [L. regredior; re and gradior, to go.]

To retire; to go back. [Not used.] – Hales.

RE-GRAFT, v.t. [re and graft.]

To graft again. – Bacon.

RE-GRAFT-ED, pp.

Grafted again.

RE-GRAFT-ING, ppr.

Grafting anew.

RE-GRANT, n.

The act of granting back to a former proprietor.

RE-GRANT, v.t. [re and grant.]

To grant back. – Ayliffe.

RE-GRANT-ED, pp.

Granted back.

RE-GRANT-ING, ppr.

Granting back.

RE-GRATE, v.t. [Fr. regratter, to scratch again, to new-vamp, to regrate, or drive a huckster's trade; re and gratter, to grate, to scratch, to rake.]

1. To offend; to shock. [Little used.]
2. To buy provisions and sell them again in the same market or fair; a practice which, by raising the price, is a public offense and punishable. Regrating differs from engrossing and monopolizing, which signify the buying the whole of certain articles, or large quantities, and from forestalling, which signifies the purchase of provisions on the way, before they reach the market. – Blackstone.

RE-GRAT-ER, n.

One who buys provisions and sells them in the same market or fair.

RE-GRAT-ING, ppr.

Purchasing provisions and selling them in the same market.

RE-GREET, n.

A return or exchange of salutation. – Shak.

RE-GREET, v.t. [re and greet.]

To greet again; to resalute. – Shak.

RE-GREET-ED, pp.

Greeted again or in return.

RE-GREET-ING, ppr.

Greeting again; resaluting.

RE'GRESS, n. [Fr. regrès; L. regressus, regredior.]

1. Passage back; return; as, ingress and regress.
2. The power of returning or passing back.

RE-GRESS', v.i.

To go back; to return to a former place or state. – Brown.

RE-GRES'SION, n.

The act of passing back or returning. – Brown.

RE-GRESS'IVE, a.

Passing back; returning.