Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Register \Reg"is*ter\ (r[e^]j"[i^]s*t[~e]r), 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.

            As you have one eye upon my follies, . . . turn
            another into the register of your own. --Shak.

   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.

   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.

   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.

   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.

   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.

   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.

   Note: 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.
      (b) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.

   {Parish register}, A book in which are recorded the births,
      baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials in a parish.

   Syn: List; catalogue; roll; record; archives; chronicle;
        annals. See {List}.