REGALEMEN. See [Regulation].
REGRATTER, Fr. in architecture, to scrape the outside of a building.
Among engravers this word signifies to re-touch a plate.
REGULAR. In geometry, a regular body is a solid, whose surface is composed of regular and equal figures, and whose solid angles are all equal.
REGULAR attacks, in a siege, are such as are made in form; that is, by regular approaches. See [Attacks].
Regular, when applied to the army, signifies those troops that are inlisted for a regular period, do duty as soldiers and nothing else; contradistinguished from those who are citizens occasionally exercising the duties of soldiers; thus the militia are not ranked among the regulars, unless on actual service and well disciplined, and fit for any service. Hence regular troops, or regulars.
REGULARS, (Troupes Régulieres, Fr.) Those troops whose conditions of enrollment are not limited to time or place, in contradistinction to fencibles, militia, or volunteer corps; called also the line.
To REGULATE, to adjust by rule or method.
Regulating Battalion. See [Parallelism of a March].
REGULATION, the act of regulating, or adjusting by rule or method.