‖n. [ L. aegis, fr. Gr. a'igi`s a goat skin, a shield, a'i`x goat, or fr. 'ai`:ssw to rush. ] A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bookbinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the art of binding books. [ R. ] Dibdin. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A write of elegies. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. en- + register: cf. F. enregistrer. Cf. Inregister. ] To register; to enroll or record; to inregister. [ 1913 Webster ]

To read enregistered in every nook
His goodness, which His beauty doth declare. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inregistered p. pr. & vb. n. Inregistering. ] [ Pref. in- in + register: cf. F. enregistrer. Cf. Enregister. ] To register; to enter, as in a register. [ R. ] Walsh. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Legislated p. pr. & vb. n. Legislating ] [ See Legislator. ] To make or enact a law or laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

Solon, in legislating for the Athenians, had an idea of a more perfect constitution than he gave them. Bp. Watson (1805). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the act of making or enacting laws; legislation{ 1 }.
Syn. -- legislation, lawmaking. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. législation, L. legis latio. See Legislator. ] The act of legislating; preparation and enactment of laws; the laws enacted. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pythagoras joined legislation to his philosophy. Lyttelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. législatif. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

The supreme legislative power of England was lodged in the king and great council, or what was afterwards called the Parliament. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the making of laws; suitable to legislation; as, the transaction of legislative business; the legislative style. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a legislative manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. legis lator, prop., a proposer of a law; lex, legis, law + lator a proposer, bearer, fr. latus, used as p. p. of ferre to bear: cf. F. législateur. See Legal, and Tolerate. ] A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

The legislators in ancient and heroical times. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many of the legislators themselves had taken an oath of abjuration of his Majesty's person and family. E. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a legislator. Halifax. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A woman who makes laws. Shaftesbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. législature. ] The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the concurrent consent of all three parts of the legislature, no law is, or can be, made. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The legislature of Great Britain consists of the Lords and Commons, with the king or queen, whose sanction is necessary to every bill before it becomes a law. The legislatures of most of the United States consist of two houses or branches; but the sanction or consent of the governor is required to give their acts the force of law, or a concurrence of two thirds of the two houses after he has refused his sanction and assigned his objections. [ 1913 Webster ]

The legislatures of some of the more important states having constitutional government are as follows, the general name (or a translation of it) of the legislative body collectively being given under the heading legislature, or parliament:

 StateLegislature, or parliamentUpper HouseNameNumber of members -- how chosen or composed -- term of officeLower HouseNameNumber of members -- suffrage -- term of office ----------------------------------------------------------------- ArgentinaNational CongressSenate30 -- 2 from each provincew and 2 from capital -- 9 yearsHouse of Deputies120 (1 to 33, 000) -- Manhood -- 4 years AustriaReichsrath BelgiumThe Chambers BrazilNational Congress ChileNational Congress DenmarkRigsdag FranceNational Assembly German EmpireImperial legislature *Great BritainParliamentHouse of LordsAbout 600House of CommonsAbout 670 -- 7 years, or until dissolution Greece HungaryOrzág-gyülés ItalyParliament JapanImperial Diet MexicoCongress NetherlandsStates-General #NorwayStorthing PortugalCortes Geraes (general Assembly) PrussiaLandtagHerrenhausNo limit -- very various classes -- For different termsAbgeordnetenhaus433 -- Indirect election, general suffrage§ -- 5 years, or until dissolution SpainCortes SwedenDiet SwitzerlandBundesversammlung United StatesCongressSenate92(1908) -- 6 yearsHouse of Representatives391 (1908) -- 2 years. 

---------------------------------------------------------------- *In the self-governing colonies of Great Britain the legislative body usually consists of two chambers, the names of the legislature and the chambers varying. Thus in Australia the Federal Parliament is composed of the Senate and the House of Commons, in New Zealand the General Assembly is composed of the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, etc. #Members of the Storthing are chosen for three years by direct election by manhood suffrage, forty-one being elected from the towns and eighty-two from the rural districts. The Storthing on assembling divides into the Lagthing including one fourth and the Odelsthing including three fourths of the total membership of the Storthing. All new laws are laid first before the Odelsthing. If the two houses do not agree they vote in joint session, a majority of two thirds of those voting being necessary to a decision. § While theoretically general, the suffrage is so classified as often practically to disfranchise those who are not property holders. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. légiste, LL. legista, fr. L. lex, legis, law. See Legal. ] One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. Milman. J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. registre, F. registre, LL. registrum, regestum, L. regesta, pl., fr. regerere, regestum, to carry back, to register; pref. re- re- + gerere to carry. See Jest, and cf. Regest. ] 1. A written account or entry; an official or formal enumeration, description, or record; a memorial record; a list or roll; a schedule. [ 1913 Webster ]

As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn another into the register of your own. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) (a) A record containing a list and description of the merchant vessels belonging to a port or customs district. (b) A certificate issued by the collector of customs of a port or district to the owner of a vessel, containing the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. LL. registrarius. Cf. Regisrar. ] One who registers or records; a registrar; a recorder; especially, a public officer charged with the duty of recording certain transactions or events; as, a register of deeds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which registers or records. Specifically: (a) (Mech.) A contrivance for automatically noting the performance of a machine or the rapidity of a process. (b) (Teleg.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received. (c) A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A lid, stopper, or sliding plate, in a furnace, stove, etc., for regulating the admission of air to the fuel; also, an arrangement containing dampers or shutters, as in the floor or wall of a room or passage, or in a chimney, for admitting or excluding heated air, or for regulating ventilation. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Print.) (a) The inner part of the mold in which types are cast. (b) The correspondence of pages, columns, or lines on the opposite or reverse sides of the sheet. (c) The correspondence or adjustment of the several impressions in a design which is printed in parts, as in chromolithographic printing, or in the manufacture of paper hangings. See Register, v. i. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Mus.) (a) The compass of a voice or instrument; a specified portion of the compass of a voice, or a series of vocal tones of a given compass; as, the upper, middle, or lower register; the soprano register; the tenor register. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In respect to the vocal tones, the thick register properly extends below from the F on the lower space of the treble staff. The thin register extends an octave above this. The small register is above the thin. The voice in the thick register is called the chest voice; in the thin, the head voice. Falsetto is a kind off voice, of a thin, shrull quality, made by using the mechanism of the upper thin register for tones below the proper limit on the scale. E. Behnke. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parish register, A book in which are recorded the births, baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle; annals. See List. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Registere p. pr. & vb. n. Registering. ] [ Cf. F. regisrer, exregistrer, LL. registrare. See Register, n. ] 1. To enter in a register; to record formally and distinctly, as for future use or service. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enroll; to enter in a list. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such follow him as shall be registered. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Securities) To enter the name of the owner of (a share of stock, a bond, or other security) in a register, or record book. A registered security is transferable only on the written assignment of the owner of record and on surrender of his bond, stock certificate, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Registered letter, a letter, the address of which is, on payment of a special fee, registered in the post office and the transmission and delivery of which are attended to with particular care. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To enroll one's name in a register. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) To correspond in relative position; as, two pages, columns, etc. , register when the corresponding parts fall in the same line, or when line falls exactly upon line in reverse pages, or (as in chromatic printing) where the various colors of the design are printed consecutively, and perfect adjustment of parts is necessary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Recording; -- applied to instruments; having an apparatus which registers; as, a registering thermometer. See Recording. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a register. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. registrans, p. pr. ] One who registers; esp., one who , by virtue of securing an official registration, obtains a certain right or title of possession, as to a trade-mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. registrarius, or F. régistraire. See Register. ] One who registers; a recorder; a keeper of records; as, a registrar of births, deaths, and marriages. See Register, n., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office of a registrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A registrar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To register. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. registratio, or F. régistration. See Register, v. ] 1. The act of registering; registry; enrollment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) The art of selecting and combining the stops or registers of an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of recording or writing in a register; enrollment; registration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The place where a register is kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A record; an account; a register. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One guilty of sacrilege. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. stratégiste. ] One skilled in strategy, or the science of directing great military movements. [ 1913 Webster ]