ignifies a person who buys and sells any wares or victuals in the same market or fair; and regrators are particularly described to be those who buy, or get into their hands, in fairs or markets, any grain, fish, butter, cheese, sheep, lambs, calves, swine, pigs, geese, capons, hens, chickens, pigeons, conies, or other dead victuals whatsoever, brought to a fair or market to be sold there, and do sell the same again in the same fair, market, or place, or in some other within four miles thereof.

Regrating is thus a kind of huckstery, by which victuals are made dearer; for every seller must gain something, and this consequently will enhance the price. In ancient times, both the engrosser and regrator were comprehended under the word forestaller. Regrators are punishable by loss and forfeiture of goods, and imprisonment, according to the first, second, or third offence. But the modern science of Political Economy has taught us to view the practices of regrating and forestalling with far other eyes than those of our forefathers.

REGULAR denotes anything that is agreeable to rule. Thus we say, a regular building, a regular verb, and the like.

A regular figure, in geometry, is one the sides, and consequently the angles, of which are equal; and a regular figure with three or four sides is commonly termed an equilateral triangle or square, as all others with more sides are called regular polygons.

REGULAR Body, called also Platonic Body, is a body or solid comprehended by like, equal, and regular plane figures, and the solid angles of which are all equal. The plane figures by which the solid is contained are the faces of the solid; and the sides of the plane figures are the edges or linear sides of the solid.

There are only five regular solids, viz. the tetrahedron, or regular triangular pyramid, having four triangular faces; the hexahedron, or cube, having six square faces; the octahedron, having eight triangular faces; the dodecahedron, having twelve pentagonal faces; and the icosahedron, having twenty triangular faces. Besides these five, there can be no other regular bodies in nature.