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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rule; a regulation.
  • noun A hollow cut or channel for guiding anything; a groove in which something runs: as, the regle of a side-post for a floodgate.
  • To rule; govern; regulate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To rule; to govern.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To rule; to govern.

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See reglement.

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