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The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

To cause to become regular; to regulate. [R.]

In a regular manner; in uniform order; methodically; in due order or time.

Regularity. Boyle.

rect by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws. The laws which regulate the successions of the seasons. Macaulay. The herdsmen near the frontier adjudicated their own disputes, and regulated their own police. Bancroft.

The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated. The temper and regulation of our own minds. Macaulay.

Tending to regulate; regulating. Whewell.

One who, or that which, regulates.

Regulated by one's self or by itself.

Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell.

Heptagonal.

Having six angles; hexagonal. [R.] Dryden.

Hexagonally. [R.]

others; single; distinct. [Obs.] Bacon. And God forbid that all a company Should rue a singular man's folly. Chaucer.

One who affects singularity. [Obs.] A clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage. Borrow.

The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of the seeds yieldeth corn. Sir. W. Raleigh. I took notice of this little figure f…

To make singular or single; to distinguish. [R.]

In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others. "Singularly handsome." Milman.

A tribe of ungulates which includes the horse, ass, and related species, constituting the family Equidæ.

Solipedous.