REGISTER OF VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT. Not responsible for money transmitted under proper precautions, and in the usual course of business, but afterwards lost by the failure of the consignee.
REGISTER SHIP. A Spanish plate-ship or galleon.
REGISTRY OF SEAMEN. A record of merchant seamen kept by the registrar-general of seamen.
REGNI POPULI. An old law-term given to the people of Surrey and Sussex, and on the sea-coasts of Hampshire.
REGULATOR. A name for the governor of a steam-engine. Also, a valve-cock. The regulator of a clock is the shortening or lengthening pendulum or escapement.
REGULUS. α Leonis; the principal star in the old constellation Leo.
REIGNING WINDS. The prevalent winds on any particular coast or region. (See [Wind].)
REIN. A crack or vein in a musket-barrel.
REINFORCE, To. To strengthen a fleet, squadron, army, or detachment, by additional means and munitions.
REINFORCE. In artillery, that increase, beyond its general conical outline, of the metal towards the breech, which was marked on old pattern guns by rings. They are generally in cast guns omitted now, though the principle of the reinforce remains, yet less defined in nature and number, in the recent wrought and built-up guns.