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Word Meanings - DEXTRALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

(adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • WATCHET
    Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
  • HANDSPRING
    A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
  • WATCHDOG
    A dog kept to watch and guard premises or property, and to give notice of the approach of intruders.
  • WATCHHOUSE
    1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • WATCHWORD
    1. A word given to sentinels, and to such as have occasion to visit the guards, used as a signal by which a friend is known from an enemy, or a person who has a right to pass the watch from one who has not; a countersign; a password. 2. A sentiment
  • TOWARDS
    See TOWARD
  • WATCH MEETING
    A religious meeting held in the closing hours of the year.
  • HANDSOMELY
    Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • RIGHTEOUS
    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. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • DEXTRALLY
    (adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
  • WATCHFUL
    Full of watch; vigilant; attentive; careful to observe closely; observant; cautious; -- with of before the thing to be regulated or guarded; as, to be watchful of one's behavior; and with against before the thing to be avoided; as, to be watchful
  • RIGHTEN
    To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
  • RIGHT-LINED
    Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
  • RIGHT-MINDED
    Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
  • RIGHT-HANDED
    Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances
  • HANDSOMENESS
    The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
  • RIGHT-HEARTED
    Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • TOWARD; TOWARDS
    1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • SPRIGHTLY
    Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
  • SHRIGHT
    imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.
  • UPRIGHTNESS
    the quality or state of being upright.
  • OVERRIGHTEOUS
    Excessively righteous; -- usually implying hypocrisy.
  • AFFRIGHTER
    One who frightens.
  • EMBRIGHT
    To brighten.
  • WRIGHT
    One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.

 

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