Regiment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A region or district governed.

II. Regiment ·vt To form into a regiment or into regiments.

III. Regiment ·noun Government; mode of ruling; rule; authority; regimen.

IV. Regiment ·add. ·vt To form into classified units or bodies; to systematize according to classes, districts or the like.

V. Regiment ·noun A body of men, either horse, foot, or artillery, commanded by a colonel, and consisting of a number of companies, usually ten.