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noun

Regulator n.

One who, or that which, regulates.

(Mach.) A contrivance for regulating and controlling motion, as:

(a)

The lever or index in a watch, which controls the effective length of the hairspring, and thus regulates the vibrations of the balance.

(b)

The governor of a steam engine.

(c)

A valve for controlling the admission of steam to the steam chest, in a locomotive.

A clock, or other timepiece, used as a standard of correct time. See Astronomical clock (a), under Clock.

A member of a volunteer committee which, in default of the lawful authority, undertakes to preserve order and prevent crimes; also, sometimes, one of a band organized for the comission of violent crimes. (U.S.) "A few stood neutral, or declared in favor of the Regulators."

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... MacDonald of Kingsborough and his son Alexander. A partial list of those apprehended is given in a report of the Committee of the Provincial Congress, reported April 20th and May 10th on the guilt of the Highland and Regulator officers then confined in Halifax gaol, finding the prisoners were of four ...

— An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America • J. P. MacLean

... smallest embarrassment walked through the 14-inch brick wall of the great building which contained it, to the terror of the superintendent and workmen, who expected every instant that the roof above their heads would fall in and extinguish them. In consequence of the spindle of the regulator having got out of its socket the very same accident occurred shortly afterwards with another engine, which, in like manner, walked through another portion of this 14-inch wall of the stable that contained it, just as a thorough-bred horse would have walked out of the door. And ...

— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various

... boyhood. One of these, Jerry Hurley, was a childless widower, a very estimable and highly respected man who owned two farms. The other, like himself a bachelor, was Billy Skidmore, the sexton of the church, and, therefore, the regulator of the ...

— Tales From Bohemia • Robert Neilson Stephens

... them, as with the ancient Medes and Persians, change of law and government is distinctly prohibited. The greatest of their Sultans, and the last of the great ten, Soliman, known in European history as the Magnificent, is called by his compatriots the Regulator, on account of the irreversible sanction which he gave to the existing administration of affairs. "The magnitude and the splendour of the military achievements of Soliman," says Mr. Thornton, "are surpassed in the ...

— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman

... doctrine which has never been explained to me; but do I? Not I. Only for the instinctive belief which I cannot help holding in God and a life to come, I would be no more than a very animal; and only for a something within me—a sort of moral regulator, which the Church calls conscience, I would never stop to question what is right or what is not. This is all the religion I have ever known. I have been brought up with the conviction that most creeds are tolerable, but that my own is the most fashionable, and it is certainly an easy ...

— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"

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