Noah Webster
Regel
REG'EL,
RE'GENCY, noun [Latin regens, from rego, to govern.]
1. Rule' authority; government.
2. Vicarious government.
3. The district under the jurisdiction of a vicegerent.
4. The body of men entrusted with vicarious government; as a regency constituted during a king's minority, insanity, or absence from the kingdom.