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to make royal. Shak.

In a royal or kingly manner; like a king; as becomes a king. His body shall be royally interred. Dryden.

The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty. Holyday.

Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl. construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.

Royal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A Hindoo system of philosophy which refers all things to soul and a rootless germ called prakriti, consisting of three elements, goodness, passion, and darkness. Whitworth.

A native or inhabitant of Savoy.

A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.

A kind of wide loose drawers or trousers worn by women in Mohammedan countries.

A yard, place, or inclosure where ships are built or repaired.

A spay.

beth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. [Written also spur-rial, and spur-ryal.]

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.

dicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards.

See Sty, a boil. [R.] De quincey.

A segment in the hyoidean arch between the epihyal and tympanohyal.

Situated under the hyaliod membrane.

A salt of sulphocyanic acid; -- also called thiocyanate, and formerly inaccurately sulphocyanide. Ferric sulphocyanate (Chem.), a dark red crystalline substance usually obtained in a blood-red solution, and recognized as a test for ferric iron.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a sulphacid, HSCN, analogous to cyanic acid, and obtained as a colorless deliquescent crystalline substance, having a bitter saline taste, and not poisonous.

See Sulphocyanate.