regal, regall

[Latin regal is, from rex (gen it. reg is )=a king, from rego =to rule, whence also reign, regent, ., and the suff. -rect, as in di rect, . Royal and regal are doublets. Ital. regale; Sp. & Port. real; O. Fr. real, reial, roial; French royal.] Of or pertaining to a king or sovereign; kingly, royal. "Who sought to pull high Jove from regal state." Thomson: Castle of Indolence , i. 22. regal-fishes, s . pl . [FISH-ROYAL.] re-gal, *ri-gall, *ri-gole s. [Fr. régale; Ital. regale.] Music: An old musical instrument; a sort of portable organ, played with the fingers of the right hand, the bellows being worked with the left. It had generally only one row of pipes, and was chiefly used to support the treble voices. It was much in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. "And in regals (where they have a pipe they call the nightingale pipe which contain eth water) the sound hath a continuall trembling." - Bacon : Nat. Hist ., § 172.