royal : Idioms & Phrases

• a penalty imposed on an officer for a misdemeanor in his office.

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• noun a noisy riotous fight
  melee; scrimmage.
  

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• . (a) A fight between several gamecocks, where the one that stands longest is the victor. Grose. (b) A contest with fists or cudgels in which more than two are engaged; a mêlée. Thackeray.

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• the lion. Obs.

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• F., in old French poetry, a poem containing five strophes of eleven lines each, and a concluding stanza. each of these six parts ending with a common refrain.

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• noun black coffee with Cognac and lemon peel and sugar
  cafe royale.
  

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• noun a national park on an island in Michigan; includes prehistoric iron mines
  

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• (pl. Pairs Royal) three things of a sort; used especially of playing cards in some games, as cribbage; as three kings, three "eight spots" etc. Four of a kind are called a double pair royal. "Something in his face gave me as much pleasure as a pair royal of naturals in my own hand." Goldsmith. "That great pair royal of adamantine sisters [the Fates]." Quarles. Written corruptly parial and prial.

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• noun the eldest daughter of a British sovereign
  

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• the eldest daughter of a sovereign.

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• adjective satellite having the power but not the rank or title of a king
  
  • one of the quasi-royal rulers of Africa

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• noun a stanza form having seven lines of iambic pentameter; introduced by Chaucer
  

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• (Pros.), a stanza of seven decasyllabic verses, of which the first and third, the second, fourth, and fifth, and the sixth and seventh rhyme.

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• noun an honorary academy in London (founded in 1768) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain
  Royal Academy.
  

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• noun an honorary academy in London (founded in 1768) intended to cultivate painting and sculpture and architecture in Britain
  Royal Academy.
  

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• noun widely distributed edible mushroom resembling the fly agaric
  Amanita caesarea; Caesar's agaric.
  

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• noun the airforce of Great Britain
  RAF.
  

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• (Bot.), the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis.)

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• noun a shade of blue tinged with purple
  purplish blue.
  

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• noun a brace to secure the royal mast
  

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• noun the federal police force of Canada
  Mounties; RCMP.
  

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• noun a form of casino in which face cards have extra point values
  

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• noun a charter granted by the sovereign (especially in Great Britain)
  

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• noun the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince
  court.
  
• noun the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state
  court.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Golden eagle, under Golden.

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• noun royal persons collectively
  royal family; royalty; royal house.
  
  • the wedding was attended by royalty

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• noun large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds
  French bracken; royal fern; Osmunda regalis; king fern; ditch fern.
  

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• (Bot.), the handsome fern Osmunda regalis. See Osmund.

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• noun a poker hand with the ace, king, queen, jack, and 10 all in the same suit
  

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• noun royal persons collectively
  royal family; royalty; royal house.
  
  • the wedding was attended by royalty

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• noun a secretion of the pharyngeal glands of bees that is fed to very young larvae and to bees destined to be queens
  

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• noun royal persons collectively
  royal family; royalty; royal house.
  
  • the wedding was attended by royalty

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• noun topmast immediately above the topgallant mast
  

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• (Naut.), the mast next above the topgallant mast and usually the highest on a square-rigged vessel. The royal yard and royal sail are attached to the royal mast.

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• an old name for gold.

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• noun an eisteddfod with competitions in music and drama and poetry and the fine arts
  

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• noun large deeply rooted fern of worldwide distribution with upright bipinnate compound tufted fronds
  French bracken; royal fern; Osmunda regalis; king fern; ditch fern.
  

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• noun tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba
  Roystonea regia.
  

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• (Bot.), a magnificent West Indian palm tree (Oreodoxa regia), lately discovered also in Florida.

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• . See Curassow.

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• noun showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana
  flamboyant; flame tree; Poinciana regia; peacock flower; Delonix regia.
  

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• noun a shade of purple tinged with red
  reddish purple.
  

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• an intense violet color, verging toward blue.

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• noun an auspicious way or means to achieve something
  
  • the royal road to success

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• noun an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science
  Royal Society.
  

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• noun an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science
  Royal Society.
  

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• noun stag with antlers of 12 or more branches
  royal.
  

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• noun an ancient form of tennis played in a four-walled court
  real tennis; court tennis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large, crested American tern (Sterna maxima).

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• . (Zoöl.) See Tiger.

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• the touching of a diseased person by the hand of a king, with the view of restoring to health; formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula, or king's evil.

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• noun Javanese foliage plant grown for their handsome velvety leaves with violet-purple hairs
  purple velvet plant; Gynura aurantiaca; velvet plant.
  

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Spur"-roy`al noun

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1. A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.

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