Rowlock
(Row"lock) n. [For oarlock; AS. rloc, where the second part is skin to G. loch a hole, E. lock
a fastening. See Oar, and Lock.] (Naut.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an
oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins
between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the
oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar.
Rown
(Rown) v. i. & t. see Roun. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Rowport
(Row"port) n. (Naut.) An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the
water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.
Roxburgh
(Rox"burgh) n. [From the third duke of Roxburgh a noted book collector who had his books
so bound.] A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top
gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
Roy
(Roy) n. [F. roi.] A king. [obs.]
Roy
(Roy), a. Royal. [Obs.] Chapman.
Royal
(Roy"al) a. [OE. roial, riall, real, OF. roial. reial, F. royal, fr. L. regalis, fr. rex, regis, king.
See Rich, and cf. regal, real a coin, Rial.]
1. Kingly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or
prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.
2. Noble; generous; magnificent; princely.
How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?
Shak. 3. Under the patronage of royality; holding a charter granted by the sovereign; as, the Royal Academy of
Arts; the Royal Society.
Battle royal. See under Battle. - - Royal bay (Bot.), the classic laurel (Laurus nobilis.) — Royal
eagle. (Zoöl.) See Golden eagle, under Golden. — Royal fern (Bot.), the handsome fern Osmunda
regalis. See Osmund. — Royal mast (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.
— Royal metal, an old name for gold. — Royal palm (Bot.), a magnificent West Indian palm tree
lately discovered also in Florida. — Royal pheasant. See Curassow. — Royal purple, an intense
violet color, verging toward blue. — Royal tern (Zoöl.), a large, crested American tern — Royal tiger.
(Zoöl.) See Tiger. — Royal touch, 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.
Syn. — Kingly; regal; monarchical; imperial; kinglike; princely; august; majestic; superb; splendid; illustrious; noble; magnanimous.
Royal
(Roy"al), n.
1. Printing and writing papers of particular sizes. See under paper, n.
2. (Naut.) A small sail immediately above the topgallant sail. Totten.
3. (Zoöl.) One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the third and fourth tynes of the antlers of
a stag.
4. (Gun.) A small mortar.
