Rēg'is-ter1, n.
n. [Fr. & Pr. registre, Sp. & It. registro, Pg. registo, L. Lat. registrum, regestrum, regestorium, for regestum. See REGEST.]
Sense 1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule.
As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak.
Sense 2. [L. Lat. registrarius.] The officer or person whose business it is to write or enter in a book accounts of transactions, particularly of the acts and proceedings of courts or other public bodies; as, the register of deeds.
Sense 3. That which registers or records; specifically, a contrivance for noting down or calculating the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process.
Sense 4. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, &c., for regulating the admission of air and the heat of the fire; also, an arrangement, as in a floor, wall, &c., for admitting or excluding heat from a hot-air chamber.
Sense 5. (Print.) (a.) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b.) The correspondence of pages or columns on the opposite sides of the sheet.
Sense 6. (Com.) A document issued by the custom-house, containing a description of a vessel, its name, tonnage, country, ownership, &c., always to be kept on board on a foreign voyage, as evidence of its nationality. Coasting vessels are enrolled, not registered. Bouvier.
Sense 7. (Mus.) (a.) The compass of a voice or instrument; a portion of the compass of a voice; as, the upper, middle, lower register. (b.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.
Parish register, a book in which are recorded the baptisms of children, and the marriages and burials of the parish.
Synonyms—List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See LIST.