Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 67
Right (a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
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.
Right angle. (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.
Note: Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you say is right, true. "Right," cries his lordship. -- Pope.
Syn: Straight; direct; perpendicular; upright; lawful; rightful; true; correct; just; equitable; proper; suitable; becoming.
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.
Unto Dian's temple goeth she right. -- Chaucer.
Let thine eyes look right on. -- Prov. iv. 25.
Right across its track there lay, Down in the water, a long reef of gold. -- Tennyson.
Right (adv.) Exactly; just. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Came he right now to sing a raven's note? -- Shak.
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.
You with strict discipline instructed right. -- Roscommon.
Right (adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right. "Right at mine own cost." -- Chaucer.
Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye. -- Chaucer.
His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught. -- Fairfax.
Right (adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant. "He was not right fat". -- Chaucer.
For which I should be right sorry. -- Tyndale.
[I] return those duties back as are right fit. -- Shak.
Note: In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend.
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.
Note: Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc.
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.
Right (n.) That which is right or correct. Specifically:
Right (n.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
Right (n.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always in the right. -- Prior.
Right (n.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, And well deserved, had fortune done him right. -- Dryden.
Right (n.) That to which one has a just claim.
Right (n.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
Right (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
Right (n.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
Right (n.) In some legislative
bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are
conservatives or monarchists.
Right (n.) 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 (v. t.) 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 (v. t.) 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.) (Naut.) 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.) 公正的；正直的；正當的 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.
Syn: Upright; just; godly; holy; uncorrupt; virtuous; honest; equitable; rightful.
Righteous (a.) Characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice; "the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much"- James 5:16 [ant: unrighteous].
Compare: Availeth
Availeth (v.) (Archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of avail.
Compare: Avail
Avail (v.) [With object] (v. i.) 有用；有益，有幫助 [（+against）] (v. t.) 有用於；有益於；有助於 [Literary] Help or benefit.
‘No amount of struggle availed Charles.’
Avail (v.) [With object] [Indian] Use or take advantage of (an opportunity or available resource).
‘You can avail discounts on food.’
See also avail oneself of.
[No object] ‘Students in the district avail of the free meal scheme in schools.’
Righteous (a.) Morally justified; "righteous indignation."
Righteoused (a.) Made righteous.
Righteously (adv.) 公正地；正直地；正當地 In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
Righteously (adv.) In a righteous manner; "righteously indignant" [ant: unrighteously].
Righteousness (n.) 公義；公正；正直；正當 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.
Righteousness (n.) Adhering to moral principles [ant: {unrighteousness}].
Righteousness (n.) See {Justification}.
Righteousness (n.) A sturdy virtue that was once found among the Pantidoodles inhabiting the lower part of the peninsula of Oque. Some feeble attempts were made by returned missionaries to introduce it into several European countries, but it appears to have been imperfectly expounded. An example of this faulty exposition is found in the only extant sermon of the pious Bishop Rowley, a characteristic passage from which is here given: "Now righteousness consisteth not merely in a holy state of mind, nor yet in performance of religious rites and obedience to the letter of the law. It is not enough that one be pious and just: one must see to it that others also are in the same state; and to this end compulsion is a proper means. Forasmuch as my injustice may work ill to another, so by his injustice may evil be wrought upon still another, the which it is as manifestly my duty to estop as to forestall mine own tort. Wherefore if I would be righteous I am bound to restrain my neighbor, by force if needful, in all those injurious enterprises from which, through a better disposition and by the help of Heaven, I do myself restrain."
Righter (n.) One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong.
Rightful (a.) Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
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.
Syn: Just; lawful; true; honest; equitable; proper.
Rightful (a.) Legally valid; "a rightful inheritance."
Rightful (a.) Having a legally established claim; "the legitimate heir"; "the true and lawful king" [syn: true(a), lawful, rightful(a)].
Rightfully (adv.) According to right or justice.
Rightfully (adv.) By right; "baseball rightfully is the nation's pastime" [syn: rightfully, truly].
Rightfulness (n.) The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.
Rightfulness (n.) Moral rectitude; righteousness. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
We fail of perfect rightfulness. -- Sir P. Sidney.
Rightfulness (n.) Anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim" [syn: right, rightfulness] [ant: wrong, wrongfulness].
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.
Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop. -- Addison.
Right-hand rope, A rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage.
Right-hand (a.) Located on or directed toward the right; "a right-hand turn."
Right-hand (a.) Intended for the right hand; "a right-hand glove" [syn: right(a), right-hand(a)].
Right-hand (a.) Most helpful and reliable; "my right-hand man."
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.) (Zool.) 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 the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.
Compare: Clockwise
Clockwise (a. & adv.) In the same direction as the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- said of that direction of a rotation about an axis, or about a point in a plane, which is ordinarily reckoned negative. Also said of the direction of a spiral, in which case the term right-handed is more common. Opposite of counterclockwise, and left-handed.
Syn: right-handed, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory.
Right-handed (a.) Using or intended for the right hand; "a right-handed batter"; "right-handed scissors" [ant: ambidextrous, left-handed, two-handed].
Right-handed (a.) Rotating to the right [syn: dextrorotary, dextrorotatory, right-handed].
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. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Rightly (adv.) According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.
Rightly (adv.) Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind. -- Milton.
Rightly (adv.) According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. "I can not rightly say." -- Shak.
Thou didst not rightly see. -- Dryden.
Rightly (adv.) With honesty; "he was rightly considered the greatest singer of his time" [syn: rightly, justly, justifiedly] [ant: unjustly].
Right-minded (a.) Having a right or honest mind. -- Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
Right-minded (a.) Disposed toward or having views based on what is right; "respect for law which every right-minded citizen ought to have". -- Bertrand Russell
Rightness (n.) Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. -- Bacon.
Rightness (n.) The quality or state of being right; right relation.
The craving for rightness with God. -- J. C. Shairp.
Rightness (n.) According with conscience or morality [ant: wrongness].
Rightness (n.) Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing [syn: appropriateness, rightness] [ant: inappropriateness, wrongness].
Rightness (n.) Conformity to fact or truth [syn: correctness, rightness] [ant: incorrectness, wrongness].
Rightness (n.) Conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty" [syn: justness, rightness, nicety].
Right-running (a.) Straight; direct.
Rightward (adv.) Toward the right.
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. -- Southey.
Right whale () (Zool.) The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale ({Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Right whale () (Zool.) Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale ({Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale ({Balaena Sieboldii); a bone whale.
Pygmy right whale (Zool.), A small New Zealand whale (Neobalaena marginata) which is only about sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.
Right whale (n.) Large Arctic whalebone whale; allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil.
Rightwise (a.) Righteous. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Rightwise (v. t.) To make righteous. [Obs.]
Rightwisely (adv.) Righteously. [Obs.]
Rightwiseness (n.) Righteousness. [Obs.]
In doom and eke in rightwisnesse. -- Chaucer.
Rigid (a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. -- Milton.
Rigid (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
The more rigid order of principles in religion and government. -- Hawthorne.
Syn: Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.
Rigid (a.) Incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck" [syn: rigid, stiff].
Rigid (a.) Incapable of compromise or flexibility [syn: rigid, strict].
Rigid (a.) Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances; "a rigid disciplinarian"; "an inflexible law"; "an unbending will to dominate" [syn: inflexible, rigid, unbending].
Rigid (a.) Designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure [ant: nonrigid].
Rigid (a.) Fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look" -- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" [syn: fixed, set, rigid].
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. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Rigidity (n.) Severity; rigor. [Obs. orR.] -- Bp. Burnet.
Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility.
Rigidity (n.) The physical property of being stiff and resisting bending [syn: rigidity, rigidness].
Rigidity (n.) The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness].
Rigidly (v.) In a rigid manner; stiffly.
Rigidly (adv.) In a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: rigidly, stiffly, bolt].
Rigidness (n.) The quality or state of being rigid.
Rigidness (n.) The physical property of being stiff and resisting bending [syn: rigidity, rigidness].
Rigidness (n.) The quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness].
Rigidulous (a.) (Bot.) Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
Riglet (n.) (Print.) See Reglet.
Rigmarole (n.) A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense. [Colloq.]
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. -- De Quincey.
Rigmarole (a.) Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.
Rigmarole (n.) A set of confused and meaningless statements [syn: rigmarole, rigamarole].
Rigmarole (n.) A long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time" [syn: rigmarole, rigamarole].
Rigol (n.) A circle; hence, a diadem. [Obs.] -- Shak.
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. -- Moore (Encyc. of Music.).
Rigor (n.) 嚴格；嚴厲；苛刻 [U]；（生活等的）艱苦；（氣候的）嚴酷 [P1] [（+of）]；苛嚴待遇；苛嚴行為 [P1] Rigidity; stiffness.
Rigor (n.) (Med.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
Rigor caloris [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), A form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50 [deg] C.
Rigor mortis [L., rigor of death], Death stiffening; the rigidity of the muscles that occurs at death and lasts till decomposition sets in. It is due to the formation of myosin by the coagulation of the contents of the individual muscle fibers.
Rigor (n.) The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
The rest his look Bound with Gorgonian rigor not to move. -- Milton.
Rigor (n.) (Med.) 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.
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity. -- Denham.
If I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, . . . I tell you 'T is rigor and not law. -- Shak.
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.
The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin. -- Addison.
Rigor (n.) Violence; force; fury. [Obs.]
Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay. -- Spenser.
Syn: Stiffness; rigidness; inflexibility; severity; austerity; sternness; harshness; strictness; exactness.
Rigor (n.) Something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness].
Rigor (n.) The quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour].
Rigor (n.) Excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness].
Rigorism (n.) （生活，宗教，藝術風格等）嚴格（或嚴峻）的作用 Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.
Rigorism (n.) Severity, as of style, or the like. -- Jefferson.
Rigorism (n.) (Ethics) Strictness in ethical principles; -- usually applied to ascetic ethics, and opposed to ethical latitudinarianism.
Rigorist (n.) 嚴格主義者 One who is rigorous; -- sometimes applied to an extreme Jansenist.
Rigorous (a.) 嚴厲的，嚴酷的，嚴格的，苛刻的，嚴密的，精確的 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.
He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. -- Shak.
We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. -- De Quincey.
Rigorous (a.) Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.
Rigorous (a.) Violent. [Obs.] "Rigorous uproar." -- Spenser.
Rigorous (a.) (Mathematics, Logic) Adhering scrupulously and exactly to accepted principles; hence, logically valid; as, a rigorous proof.
Syn: Rigid; inflexible; unyielding; stiff; severe; austere; stern; harsh; strict; exact. -- Rig"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Rig"or*ous*ness, n.
Rigorous (a.) Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian" [syn: rigorous, strict].
Rigorous (a.) Demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous, stringent, tight].
Rigorously (adv.) 嚴厲地；酷烈地 In a rigorous manner; "he had been trained rigorously by the monks" [syn: {rigorously}, {strictly}].
Rigsdaler (n.) A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was the former unit of value in Denmark.
Rig-Veda () See Veda.
Compare: Veda
Veda (n.) The ancient sacred literature of the Hindus; also, one of the four collections, called Rig-Veda, Yajur-Veda, Sama-Veda, and Atharva-Veda, constituting the most ancient portions of that literature.
Note: The language of the Vedas is usually called Vedic Sanskrit, as distinguished from the later and more settled form called classical Sanskrit.
Rig-Veda (n.) A Veda consisting of a collection of Hindu poems dating from before 2000 BC
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.