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The act of registering; registry; enrollment.

The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration.

Hence, an official or public document; a register; a record; also, a catalogue; a list. The rolls of Parliament, the entry of the petitions, answers, and transactions in Parliament, are extant. Sir M. Hale. The roll and list of that army doth remain. Sir J. Davies.

A register or roll showing the order in which officers, enlisted men, companies, or regiments are called on to serve.

An apparatus for registering the shocks and undulatory motions of earthquakes.

The art of registering the shocks and undulatory movements of earthquakes.

the production of which may be required on certain occasions. Among these papers are the register, passport or sea letter, charter party, bills of lading, invoice, log book, muster roll, bill of health, etc. Bouvier. Kent. -- To make ship, to embark in a ship or other vessel.

To register (as on a slate and subject to revision), for an appointment. [Polit. Cant]

d Capital letter, under Capital, a. -- Small piece, a Scotch coin worth about 2 -- Small register. See the Note under 1st Register, 7. -- Small stuff (Naut.), spun yarn, marline, and the smallest kinds of rope. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Small talk, light or trifling conversation; chitchat. -- Small wares (Com.), various s…

The treble; the highest vocal register; the highest kind of female or boy's voice; the upper part in harmony for mixed voices.

who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.

Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. [U. S.]

he knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.

A genealogical register of a particular breed or stud of horses, esp. thoroughbreds.

A recording or registering tachometer; also, its autographic record.

ver. Two or more of these are connected by an India rubber tube, and used to transmit and register the movements of the pulse or of any pulsating artery.

A self-registering thermometer, especially one that registers the maximum and minimum during long periods. Nichol.

-- Tide gauge, a gauge for showing the height of the tide; especially, a contrivance for registering the state of the tide continuously at every instant of time. Brande & C. -- Tide lock, a lock situated between an inclosed basin, or a canal, and the tide water of a harbor or river, when they are on different levels,…

An apparatus for studying and registering the action of various fluids and drugs on the excised heart of lower animals.

rt Torrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by the government of properly registered titles. The system has been generally adopted in Australia and British Columbia, and in its original or a modified form in some other countries, including some States of the United States. Hence Torrens title, etc.…