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   Right , a. [OE. right, riht, AS. riht; akin to D. regt, OS. & OHG. reht, G. recht, Dan. ret, Sw. rätt, Icel. rettr, Goth. raíhts, L. rectus, p. p. of regere to guide, rule; cf. Skr. ṛju straight, right. √115. Cf. Adroit,Alert, Correct, Dress, Regular, Rector, Recto, Rectum, Regent, Region, Realm, Rich, Royal, Rule.]
   Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line. “Right as any line.”
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   Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
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   Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
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   That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end.
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   Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
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   Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious. “His right wife.”
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   In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians.
   Milton.
   
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   According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
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   You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well.
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   If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, “Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”
   Locke.
   
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   Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
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   The lady has been disappointed on the right side.
   Spectator.
   
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   Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
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   Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand.
   Longfellow.
   
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   ☞ In designating the banks of a river, right and left are used always with reference to the position of one who is facing in the direction of the current's flow.
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   Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
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   Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
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   At right angles, so as to form a right angle or right angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly. -- Right and left, in both or all directions. [Colloq.] -- Right and left coupling (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw and a left-handed screw, respectivelly. -- Right angle. (a) The angle formed by one line meeting another perpendicularly, as the angles ABD, DBC. (b) (Spherics) A spherical angle included between the axes of two great circles whose planes are perpendicular to each other. -- Right ascension. See under Ascension. -- Right Center (Politics), those members belonging to the Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with the Right on political questions. See Center, n., 5. -- Right cone, Right cylinder, Right prism, Right pyramid (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the axis of which is perpendicular to the base. -- Right line. See under Line. -- Right sailing (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter a ship's latitude or its longitude, but not both. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Right sphere (Astron. & Geol.), a sphere in such a position that the equator cuts the horizon at right angles; in spherical projections, that position of the sphere in which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the equator.
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   ☞ Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you say is right, true.
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   “Right,” cries his lordship.
   Pope.
   
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   Syn. -- Straight; direct; perpendicular; upright; lawful; rightful; true; correct; just; equitable; proper; suitable; becoming.
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   Right, adv.
   In a right manner.
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   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.
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   Unto Dian's temple goeth she right.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Let thine eyes look right on.
   Prov. iv. 25.
   
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   Right across its track there lay,
   Down in the water, a long reef of gold.
   Tennyson.
   
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   Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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   Came he right now to sing a raven's note?
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   According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
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   According to any rule of art; correctly.
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   You with strict discipline instructed right.
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   According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. “Right at mine own cost.”
   Chaucer.
   
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   Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye.
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   His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught.
   Fairfax.
   
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   In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. “He was not right fat”. 
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   For which I should be right sorry.
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   [I] return those duties back as are right fit.
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   ☞ In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend.
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   Right honorable, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin.
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   ☞ Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc.
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   Right along, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along for several hours. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Right away, or Right off, at once; straightway; without delay. [Colloq. U.S.] “We will . . . shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off.” D. Webster.
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   Right , n. [AS. right. See Right, a.]
   That which is right or correct. Specifically: (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong. (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
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   Seldom your opinions err;
   Your eyes are always in the right.
   Prior.
   
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   (c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
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   Long love to her has borne the faithful knight,
   And well deserved, had fortune done him right.
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   That to which one has a just claim. Specifically: (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
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   There are no rights whatever, without corresponding duties.
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   (b) 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. (c) 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.
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   Born free, he sought his right.
   Dryden.
   
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   Hast thou not right to all created things?
   Milton.
   
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   Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
   Burke.
   
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   (d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
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   The right side; the side opposite to the left.
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   Led her to the Souldan's right.
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   In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
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   The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
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   At all right, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See under Bill. -- By right, By rights, or By good rights, rightly; properly; correctly.
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   He should himself use it by right.
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   I should have been a woman by right.
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   -- Divine right, or Divine right of kings, a name given to the patriarchal theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience of the people. -- To rights. (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] Woodward. (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Swift. -- To set to rights, To put to rights, to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order. -- Writ of right (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. Blackstone.
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   Right, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Righted; p. pr. & vb. n. Righting.] [AS. rihtan. See 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.
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   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.
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   So just is God, to right the innocent.
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   All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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   To right a vessel (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. -- To right the helm (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel.
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   Right, v. i.
   To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
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   (Naut.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.
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