Right (a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
Right (adv.) In a right manner.
Right (adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
Right (adv.) Exactly; just.
Right (adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
Right (adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
Right (adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
Right (adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
Right (a.) That which is right or correct.
Right (a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
Right (a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
Right (a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
Right (a.) That to which one has a just claim.
Right (a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
Right (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
Right (a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
Right (a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
Right (a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
Right (a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
Right (a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
Righted (imp. & p. p.) of Right
Righting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Right
Right (a.) 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.
Right (a.) 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.
Right (v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
Right (v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
Right-about (n.) 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.
Right-angled (a.) Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
Righten (v. t.) To do justice to.
Righteous (a.) 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.
Righteoused (a.) Made righteous.
Righteously (adv.) In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
Righteousness (n.) The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
Righteousness (n.) A righteous act, or righteous quality.
Righteousness (n.) The act or conduct of one who is righteous.
Righteousness (n.) The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground of justification.
Righter (n.) One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.
Rightful (a.) Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.
Rightful (a.) Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause.
Rightful (a.) Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.
Rightful (a.) Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority.
Rightfully (adv.) According to right or justice.
Rightfulness (n.) The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.
Rightfulness (n.) Moral rectitude; righteousness.
Right-hand (a.) Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
Right-hand (a.) Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
Right-handed (a.) Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
Right-handed (a.) 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.
Right-handed (a.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
Right-handedness (n.) The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
Right-hearted (a.) Having a right heart or disposition.
Rightless (a.) Destitute of right.
Right-lined (a.) Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
Rightly (adv.) Straightly; directly; in front.
Rightly (adv.) According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.
Rightly (adv.) Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Rightly (adv.) According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly.
Right-minded (a.) Having a right or honest mind.
Rightness (n.) Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
Rightness (n.) The quality or state of being right; right relation.
Right-running (a.) Straight; direct.
Rightward (adv.) Toward the right.
Right whale () The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Right whale () 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.
Rightwise (a.) Righteous.
Rightwise (v. t.) To make righteous.
Rightwisely (adv.) Righteously.
Rightwiseness (n.) Righteousness.
Rigid (a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Rigid (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
Rigidity (n.) The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Rigidity (n.) Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Rigidity (n.) Severity; rigor.
Rigidly (v.) In a rigid manner; stiffly.
Rigidness (n.) The quality or state of being rigid.
Rigidulous (a.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
Riglet (n.) See Reglet.
Rigmarole (n.) A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense.
Rigmarole (a.) Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.
Rigol (n.) A circle; hence, a diadem.
Rigoll (n.) A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
Rigor (n.) Rigidity; stiffness.
Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
Rigor (n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
Rigor (n.) See 1st Rigor, 2.
Rigor (n.) Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
Rigor (n.) Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
Rigor (n.) Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; -- opposed to lenity.
Rigor (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
Rigor (n.) Violence; force; fury.
Rigorism (n.) Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Rigorism (n.) Severity, as of style, or the like.
Rigorist (n.) One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
Rigorous (a.) Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.
Rigorous (a.) Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Rigorous (a.) Violent.
Rigsdaler (n.) A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.
Rig-Veda () See Veda.
Riksdaler (n.) A Swedish coin worth about twenty-seven cents. It was formerly the unit of value in Sweden.
Riled (imp. & p. p.) of Rile