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Definition of Regulus

1. Noun. The brightest star in Leo.

2. Noun. A genus of birds of the family Sylviidae including kinglets.

Definition of Regulus

1. n. A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence.

Definition of Regulus

1. Proper noun. (star) A star in the constellation Leo; alpha (?) Leonis. ¹

2. Noun. an impure metal formed beneath slag during the smelting of ores. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Regulus

1. a mass that forms beneath the slag in a furnace [n -LI or -LUSES] : REGULINE [adj]

Medical Definition of Regulus

1. Origin: L, a petty king, prince, dim. Of rex, regis, a king: cf. F. Regule. See Regal. 1. A petty king; a ruler of little power or consequence. 2. The button, globule, or mass of metal, in a more or less impure state, which forms in the bottom of the crucible in smelting and reduction of ores. The name was introduced by the alchemists, and applied by them in the first instance to antimony. I signifies little king; and from the facility with which antimony alloyed with gold, these empirical philosophers had great hopes that this metal, antimony, would lead them to the discovery of the philosopher's stone. 3. A star of the first magnitude in the constellation Leo; called also the Lion's Heart. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Regulus

regulatory regions or sequences regulatory sequence reguli reguline regulise regulised regulises regulize regulized regulizes

regulo regulome regulon regulons regulos regulus (current term) reguluses regur regur soil regurgitalith

regurgitaliths regurgitant regurgitant fraction regurgitant murmur regurgitate regurgitated regurgitates regurgitating regurgitation regurgitation jaundice

Literary usage of Regulus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"If [p] are the lines of a regulus and q is a directrix of the regulus, ... Every point which is on a line of a regulus is also on a line of its conjugate ..."

2. Projective Geometry by Oswald Veblen, John Wesley Young (1910)
"If [p] are the lines of a regulus and q is a directrix of the regulus, ... Every point which is on a line of a regulus is also on a line of its conjugate ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"It is impossible to reconcile the dates of either Angus with those assigned in legend to regulus, who is said to have left Patras for Scotland in the fourth ..."

4. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1871)
"Defeat of regulus. Sicily, pay a contribution of war, restore the prisoners and deserters, deliver tip the fleet and content themselves with a single ship, ..."

5. Elements of Metallurgy: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Extracting Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1887)
"During the first part of the fusion for regulus effervescence takes place from the escape of various gases, but this gradually subsides, until, ..."

6. Elements of Metallurgy: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Extracting Metals by John Arthur Phillips (1887)
"During the first part of the fusion for regulus effervescence takes place from the escape of various gases, but this gradually subsides, until, ..."

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