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  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Regal  \Re"gal\,  n.  [F.  r['e]gale,  It  regale.  CF  {Rigoll}.] 
  (Mus.) 
  A  small  portable  organ,  played  with  one  hand,  the  bellows 
  being  worked  with  the  other  --  used  in  the  sixteenth  and 
  seventeenth  centuries. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Regal  \Re"gal\  (r?"gal),  a.  [L.  regalis,  fr  rex,  regis,  a  king. 
  See  {Royal},  and  cf  {Rajah},  {Realm},  {Regalia}.] 
  Of  or  pertaining  to  a  king;  kingly;  royal;  as  regal 
  authority,  pomp,  or  sway.  ``The  regal  title.''  --Shak. 
 
  He  made  a  scorn  of  his  regal  oath.  --Milton. 
 
  Syn:  Kingly;  royal.  See  {Kingly}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  regal 
  adj  :  belonging  to  or  befitting  a  supreme  ruler;  "golden  age  of 
  imperial  splendor";  "purple  tyrant";  "regal  attire"; 
  "treated  with  royal  acclaim";  "the  royal  carriage  of  a 
  stag's  head"  [syn:  {imperial},  {majestic},  {purple},  {royal}] 
 
  From  U.S.  Gazetteer  (1990)  [gazetteer]: 
 
  Regal,  MN  (city,  FIPS  53710) 
  Location:  45.40500  N,  94.84015  W 
  Population  (1990):  51  (22  housing  units) 
  Area:  1.3  sq  km  (land),  0.0  sq  km  (water)




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