(government) The method by which a constitutional monarch formally approves and promulgates an act of his or her nation's parliament, thus making it a law.

Alternative form of rhyme royal

(uncountable, poetry) A form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).

A complicated French poetic form, a variation of the ballad form, consisting of five eleven-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-d-E and a five-line envoi rhyming d-d-e-d-E or a seven-line envoi c-c-d-d-e-d-E. Rhyming words cannot be repeated.

(obsolete) gold

Any of the genus Roystonea of palm trees, native to the Caribbean Islands and the adjacent coasts of Florida and Central and South America, but grown throughout the tropics and subtropics for its great height and elegant form

Osmunda regalis, a fern native to Europe, Africa and Asia. / Osmunda spectabilis, an American fern.

The seabird Thalasseus maximus (syn. Sterna maxima).

The touching of a diseased person by the hand of a king, with the purpose of restoring health; formerly extensively practiced, particularly for the scrofula.

plural of royal stremma