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A raised line or strip, as of ground thrown up by a plow or left between furrows or ditches, or as on the surface of metal, cloth, or bone, etc.

An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.

A fixed star of the first magnitude in the left foot of the constellation Orion. [Written also Regel.]

an 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. Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand. Longfellow.

Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

Toward the right. Rightward and leftward rise the rocks. Southey.

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

eing worthless. -- Ring fence. See under Fence. -- Ring finger, the third finger of the left hand, or the next the little finger, on which the ring is placed in marriage. -- Ring formula (Chem.), a graphic formula in the shape of a closed ring, as in the case of benzene, pyridine, etc. See Illust. under Benzene. --…

To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.

Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.

The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony. Rosin oil, an oil obtained from the resin of the pine tree, -- used by painters and for lubricating machinery, etc.

tively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt. Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons. Macaulay. Rot, poor bachelor, in your club. Thackeray.

A stubble field left unplowed till late in the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.

through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.

A leather case or pocket worn by cavalry at the left side, suspended from the sword belt. Campbell (Dict. Mil. Sci. ).

being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

Stones left after sifting. Smart.