royal (roial)

and n. [Early mod. E. also roial (also dial. or technically rial, ryal ); And seide that he wolde holde court open and enforced, and sente by his me angers that alle sholde come to his court roiall . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 479. Why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee? 1 Sam. xxvii. 5. Thou camest not of the blood royal , if thou darest not stand for ten shillings. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 2. 157. 2. Pertaining or relating to the sovereign power of a king; acting under, derived from, or dependent upon regal authority, aid, or patronage: as, a royal parliament or government; the royal army or navy; royal purveyors. Roy al enters into the names of many literary, scientific, artistic, and other a ociations in monarchical countries, implying their existence under royal charter or patronage: e. g., the Royal Academy of Arts in London, whose members are distinguished by the title R. A. (Royal Academician), and the a ociate members by the title A. R. A.; the Royal Institution of London, for the promotion of and instruction in scientific and technical knowledge; the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge (usually designated specifically the Royal Society ), which takes charge of many scientific matters with which the government is concerned, and whose members or fellows are styled F. R. S.; the Royal Societies of Edinburgh and of Dublin, the Royal Antiquarian, Asiatic, Astronomical, and Geographical Societies, etc. 3. Of kingly character or quality; proper for or suitable to kingship; ideally like or characteristic of a king or royalty; royally eminent, excellent, or the like: used either literally or figuratively: as, royal state or magnificence; he proved a royal friend; a right royal welcome. And the i made the feste of the mariage so riall that neuer in that londe was seyn soc he. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 320. A kyng shold roiall obseque haue. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1538. Hath she forgot already that brave prince, Young, valiant, wise, and, no doubt, right royal? Shak., Rich. III., i. 2. 245. As at this day, to the Tartars, Horseflesh is royall fare; to the Arabians, Camels; to some Americans, Serpents. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 39. Her step was royal , queen-like, and her face As beautiful as a saint's in Paradise. Long fellow, Spanish Student, i. 1. 4. Large or superior of its kind; of more than ordinary size, excellence, or the like: used as a specific qualification, as in royal quarto or royal octavo in printing, a royal antler or stag, etc., or as an a ertion of superiority for that to which it is applied, as in the names of some articles of trade. - Amercement, antler, astronomer, ballade, battle, beast, chapel, cygnet royal. See the nouns. - Convention of royal burghs. See conven tion. Coroner of the royal household. See coroner. Dean of the chapel royal, gentleman of the chapel royal. See dean, gentleman. - Hart royal. See hartl and hart royal. - Pair royal. See pair1.- Peer of the blood royal. See peer2.- Prince royal, prince royal. See prince, prince . - Royal abbey. See abbey1, 1. - Royal agate, a mottled variety of obsidian. - Royal American Order. Same as Order of Isabella the Catholic (which see, under order ). - Royal a ent, bark. See the nouns.-Royal bay. (a) An East Indian bay-tree, Ma chilus odor at is sima ( Laurus Indica ). (b) The bay-laurel, Laurus nobilis. - Royal Bengal tiger. See tiger.-Royal bistoury, a narrow, curved, probe-pointed bistoury: so called because used in an operation on Louis XIV. - Royal blue. See blue and smalt. - Royal bounty, in England, a fund from which the sovereign grants money to the female relatives of officers who die of wounds received when on duty. - Royal burgh, cementt, clove. See the nouns.-Royal cashmere, a thin material, generally made of pure wool, used for garments for women and summer garments for men. - Royal charter. See charter, 1. - Royal domains. Same as crown lands (which see, under crown). - Royal fern. See Osmunda. - Royal fishes. See regal fishes, under regall. - Royal flush. See flush9. - Royal folio. See folio, 4.- Royal grant, a grant by letters patent from the crown. - Roval horned cater pillar, the larva of Cither on i a regal is, a large bombycid moth of beautiful olive and crimson colors, which inhab 5251 its the United States. The larva feeds on the foliage of the black walnut, persimmon, butternut, hickory, and sumac, Royal Horned Caterpillar (larva of Cither on i a regal is ). (About half natural size.) and is the largest of all North American lepidopterous larvæ. The moth is popularly known as the regal walnut moth. - Royal household, the body of persons employed about the court or in the personal service of a reigning king or queen. In former times the royal household included all the chief officers of state, who were regarded as merely the king's servants, and often performed menial duties toward him; afterward, only persons who had special functions relating to the royal needs, dignity, or prerogatives. In British royal household, as existed for several centuries, the chief officers are the lord steward, lord chamberlain, and master of the horse, who are always peers and members of the government of the time. Under each of them are many subordinate officers, among whom the different branches of their duty are distributed. Independent of them are the private secretary and the keeper of the privy purse to the sovereign, modern additions to the household, with their subordinates. When there is a queen consort, the queen's household is a separate establishment, similarly though le elaborately organized. On the acce ion of Queen Victoria the expenses of the royal household were permanently fixed at £303,760 per annum. - Royal letter. See letter3. - Royal marines. See marine. - Royal merchant. ( a ) One of those merchants of the middle ages who combined mercantile pursuits with princely power, as those of Venice who founded principalities in the Archipelago, the Grimaldi of Genoa, or the Medici of Florence. (b) A merchant who managed the mercantile affairs of or purveyed for a sovereign or state. - Royal mine, in monarchical countries, a mine of gold or silver-all such mines being by prescription the property of the crown. - Royal oak. (a) See oak. (b) [ caps.] Another name for the constellation Robur Caroli. - Royal palm, palmetto. See the nouns. - Royal peacock-flower. See Poinciana. - Royal peculiar, prerogative, purple. See the nouns. - Royal regiment of artillery. See artillery. - Royal road to knowledge, a direct and easy method of attaining knowledge: so called because the royal roads were straighter and better than ordinary roads. - Royal Society. See def. 2. - Royal standard. See standard. - Royal stitch, an old operation for the cure of inguinal hernia. - Royal tern, touch, waterlily, etc. See the nouns. - Royal Vienna, a name frequently given to Vienna porcelain. -Royal Worcester porcelain. See porcelain. The royal doors or gates. cable primarily to what pertains to a king in virtue of See door. Syn. Royal, Regal, Kingly. Regal is applihis office, and hence to what is proper to or suggestive of a king, and as now frequently used is nearly synonymous with princely, magnificent: as, regal state or pomp; regal Royal pertains to the king an individual, or is a ociated with his person: Kashis royal highne (applied to a prince of the blood); the royal family; the royal presence; the royal robes; a royal salute. It does not, like regal, nece arily imply magnificence. Thus, a royal residence may not be regal in its character, while on the other hand any magnificent mansion belonging to a subject may be described as regal, though it is not royal. The sway of a great Highland chief of old was regal, but not royal. Hence, in figurative use, royal is applied to qualities, actions, or things which are conceived of as superlatively great, noble, or admirable in themselves, or as worthy of a king: as, a royal disposition, royal virtues, a royal entertainment, etc.; regal, to those which make an impre ion of the highest grandeur, stateline , ascendancy, or the like: as, a regal bearing, regal muniticence, regal commands, etc. Kingly seems to be intermediate. It signifies literally like a king, hence proper to or befitting a king, and in its more general use resem bling or suggestive of a king. Like royal, it has reference sition, and the like; while, like regal, it is not restricted to to personal qualities: as, a kingly bearing, presence, dispothe monarch or members of his house.-3. Imperial, august, majestic, superb, splendid, magnificent, illustrious. II. n. 11. A royal person; a member of a royal family; a king or prince. And also wythout the forsayde cyte metyng vs our moder oure wyff our chyldren or oure eyrs or other reyals to the same cyte comyng, etc. Charter of London , in Arnold's Chronicle, p. 36. He araiet for that Rioll , all of Riche stones, A faire toumbe & a fre he, all of fre marbill. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7159. 2t. A gold coin formerly current in England: same as ryal . The prieste, purposyng to gratifle the dead, and with dewe praise to commende his liberal i tie, saieth: surely he was a goode manne, a verteous man, yea, he was a noble gentleman. I thinke if it hadde been his happe to have had a roiall , he had called him a roiall gentleman to. Wilson, Rule of Reason. Roials of Spaine are currant mony there. Hakluyt's Voyages , II. 177. They are incompetent witne es, his own creatures, And will swear any thing for half a royal . Fletcher , Spanish Curate, iii. 3. 3. Naut., a small square sail, usually the highest on a ship, carried on the royalmast only in a light breeze.-4. One of the tines of a stag's antlers; an antler royal, or royal antler. See antler, 3.-5. A stag which has the antler royal. royalty A royal differs only in having an extra point on each horn. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 510. 6. In artillery , a small mortar.-7. That part of the beard which grows below the under lip and above the point of the chin, especially when the beard around it is shaved. This with the mustache has long formed the trim of the beard most in favor for military men, etc., on the continent of Europe. The term royal prevailed until the second French empire, when the name imperial was given to it, as it was worn by Napoleon III. 8. A writing-paper of the size 19 × 24 inches; also, a printing-paper of the size 20 × 25 inches. A royal folio has a leaf about 12 × 20 inches; a royal quarto is about 10 × 124 inches; a royal octavo, about 64 × 10 inches. - Double royal. See double. - Quadruple royal. See quadruple. - The Royals. ( a ) A name formerly given to the first regiment of foot in the British army, now called the Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). (b) A name sometimes given to other regiments in whose title the word royal occurs: as, the King's Royal Rifle Corps; the Royal Scots Fusiliers, etc. royalet (roi'al-et), n. [ There were, indeed, at this time two other royalets , as onely kings by his leave. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. iv. 10. Pallas and Jove! defend me from being carried down the stream of time among a shoal of royalets , and the rootle weeds they are hatched on! Landor , Epicurus, Leontion, and Terni a.