rigol

See also: ri•gol

English

Etymology

From Old English [Term?] and ringol. Compare ring.

Noun

rigol (plural rigols)

(obsolete) A circle.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,
  About the mourning and congealed face
  
  Of that black blood a watery rigol goes,
  
  Which seems to weep upon the tainted place:
(obsolete) A diadem, crown (ornamental headband worn as a badge of royalty).
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 5,
  […] this is a sleep
  
  That from this golden rigol hath divorc’d
  
  So many English kings.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rigol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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