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Heedful; attentive; observant. -- Re*gard"ful*ly, adv. Let a man be very tender and regardful of every pious motion made by the Spirit of God to his heart. South.

Concerning; respecting.

Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity. Regardless of the bliss wherein he sat. Milton.

To gather again.

Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races.

See Rigel.

To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.

The act or process of freezing anew, or together,as two pieces of ice.

Rule. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Especially, the office, jurisdiction, or dominion of a regent or vicarious ruler, or of a body of regents; deputed or vicarious government. Sir W. Temple.

The state of being regenerated. Hammond.

Reproduced. The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up. Shak.

The quality or state of being rgenerate.

The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.

Of or pertaining to regeneration; tending to regenerate; as, regenerative influences. H. Bushnell. Regenerative furnace (Metal.), a furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.

So as to regenerate.

One who, or that which, regenerates.

Having power to renew; tending to reproduce; regenerating. G. S. Faber.

New birth; renewal. A continued regenesis of dissenting sects. H. Spenser.

Ruling; governing; regnant. "Some other active regent principle . . . which we call the soul." Sir M. Hale.