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The chief officer of a regiment; an officer ranking next above a lieutenant colonel and next below a brigadier general.

as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow.

A subdivision of a regiment of troops under the command of a captain, numbering in the United States (full strength) 100 men.

with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )

To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man of; as, to decimate a regiment as a punishment for mutiny. Macaulay.

d especially in military language; as, to detach a ship from a fleet, or a company from a regiment.

od selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed. To fast like one that takes diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.

The chief or first drummer of a regiment; an instructor of drummers.

t; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. They are not effective of anything, nor leave no work behind them. Bacon. Whosoever is an effective, real cause of doing his heighbor wrong, is criminal. Jer. Taylor.

rmerly, a commissioned officer of the army who carried the ensign or flag of a company or regiment.

To put aboard a railway train; as, to entrain a regiment. [Recent, Eng.]

"Good: I will expect you." Shak. "Expecting thy reply." Shak. The Somersetshire or yellow regiment . . . was expected to arrive on the following day. Macaulay.

tary music. Fife major (Mil.), a noncommissioned officer who superintends the fifers of a regiment. -- Fife rail. (Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a poop deck.

The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side. When to right and left the front Divided, and to either flank retired. Milton.

Infantry soldiers belonging to select regiments called the Guards. [Eng.]

t, as money, etc. [Irish] "While I am to the fore." W. Collins. "How many captains in the regiment had two thousand pounds to the fore" Thackeray.

A title now borne by some regiments and companies; as, "The Royal Fusiliers," etc.

loper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

That part of medicine which treats of regimen for old people.