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- English Word Right Definition Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
- English Word Right Definition The right side; the side opposite to the left.
- English Word Right Definition In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
- English Word Right Definition The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- English Word Right Definition To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
- English Word Right Definition To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
- English Word Right Definition To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
- English Word Right Definition Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
- English Word Right whale Definition The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
- English Word Right whale Definition Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
- English Word Right-about Definition A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
- English Word Right-angled Definition Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
- English Word Right-hand Definition Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
- English Word Right-hand Definition Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
- English Word Right-handed Definition Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
- English Word Right-handed Definition Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
- English Word Right-handed Definition Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
- English Word Right-handedness Definition The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
- English Word Right-hearted Definition Having a right heart or disposition.
- English Word Right-lined Definition Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
- English Word Right-minded Definition Having a right or honest mind.
- English Word Right-running Definition Straight; direct.
- English Word Righted Definition of Right
- English Word Righten Definition To do justice to.
- English Word Righteous Definition Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
- English Word Righteoused Definition Made righteous.
- English Word Righteously Definition In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
- English Word Righteousness Definition The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
- English Word Righteousness Definition A righteous act, or righteous quality.
- English Word Righteousness Definition The act or conduct of one who is righteous.