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Regulation. [Obs.] The reformation and reglement of usuary. Bacon.

Regulative. [R.]

Rule; regulation. [Obs.] Bacon. Jer. Taylor.

Act of settling again, or state of being settled again; as, the resettlement of lees. The resettlement of my discomposed soul. Norris.

The act of reviling; also, contemptuous language; reproach; abuse. Spenser.

The act of ruffling. [R.]

A scribble. [R.] oster.

stallation as pastor. Every man living has a design in his head upon wealth power, or settlement in the world. L'Estrange.

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to. Causes of one kind must be supplemented by bringing to bear upon them a causation of another kind. I. Taylor.

Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume. Supplemental air (Physiol.), the air which in addition to the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be expelled; reserve…

The act of supplementing. C. Kingsley.

A table. [Obs.] Tablements and chapters of pillars. Holland.

Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism (#), n.

Any apparatus recording meteorological phenomena at a distance from the measuring apparatus, as by electricity or by compressed air; esp., an apparatus recording conditions at many distant stations at a central office. -- Tel`e*me`te*or*o*graph"ic (#), a.

An instrument used for measuring the distance of an object from an observer; as, a telescope with a micrometer for measuring the apparent diameter of an object whose real dimensions are known.

A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawing and measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog"ra*phy (#), n. -- Tel`e*met`ro*graph"ic (#), a.

To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Transubstantiation. [Obs.]

The act of unsettling, or state of being unsettled; disturbance. J. H. Newman.