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carats and is among the state jewels of France. It is so called from the Duke of Orleans, Regent of France, to whom it was sold in 1717 by Pitt the English Governor of Madras (whence also called the Pitt diamond), who bought it of an Indian merchant in 1701.

A female regent. [R.] Cotgrave.

The office of a regent; regency.

To germinate again. Perennial plants regerminate several years successively. J. Lee.

A germinating again or anew.

A register. [Obs.] Milton.

To get again.

An upholder of kingly authority; a royalist. [Obs.] Fuller.

Governable; tractable. [Obs.]

Pertaining to regicide, or to one committing it; having the nature of, or resembling, regicide. Bp. Warburton.

One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

One of a body of officers charged with the government of Spanish municipalities, corresponding to the English alderman.

Direct management of public finance or public works by agents of the government for government account; -- opposed to the contract system.

To gild anew.

Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system. I dream . . . of the new régime which is to come. H. Kingsley.

Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation; esp. (Med.),

Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen. [Obs.] Spenser. "Regiment of health." Bacon. But what are kings, when regiment is gone, But perfect shadows in a sunshine day Marlowe. The law of nature doth now require of necessity some kind of regiment. Hocker.

Belonging to, or concerning, a regiment; as, regimental officers, clothing. Regimental school, in the British army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.

In or by a regiment or regiments; as, troops classified regimentally.

The uniform worn by the officers and soldiers of a regiment; military dress; -- formerly used in the singular in the same sense. Colman.