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Destitute of right. Sylvester.

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon.

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

Righteous. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Righteously. [Obs.]

Righteousness. [Obs.] In doom and eke in rightwisnesse. Chaucer.

To impress with sudden fear; to frighten; to alarm. Dreams affright our souls. Shak. A drear and dying sound Affrights the flamens at their service quaint. Milton.

With fright. Drayton.

To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

One who frightens. [Archaic]

Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic] Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Rightly; correctly; in a right way or form; without mistake or crime; as, to worship God aright.

The duty or privilege of the marriage bed. Shak.

Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb.…

eflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark. The sun was bright o'erhead. Longfellow. The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright. Drake. The public places were as bright as at noonday. Macaulay.

nguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved, and in the intensity and course of the morbid process.

Having glittering armor. [Poetic] Milton.

To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.