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rectly opposite or contrary to something else; a contrary; an opposite. Chaucer. And then mistook reverse of wrong for right. Pope. To make everything the reverse of what they have seen, is quite as easy as to destroy. Burke.

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. You are right, Justice, and you weigh this well. Shak. If there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is . . . right, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we…

sovereign is a king) whose duty is supposed to consist in caring for the royal robes. -- Mistress of the robes, a lady who enjoys the highest rank of the ladies in the service of the English sovereign (when a queen), and is supposed to have the care her robes.

Mist; smoke; damp [Prov.Eng.] [Written also roak, rook, and rouk.]

Misty; foggy; cloudy. [Prov. Eng.] Ray.

Mist; fog. See Roke. [Obs.]

Misty; gloomy. [Obs.] Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Shak.

[So named from its first describer, J. C. Rosenmüller, a German anatomist.] (Anat.) The parovarium.

t similar to the hurdy- gurdy. Well could he sing and play on a rote. Chaucer. extracting mistuned dirges from their harps, crowds, and rotes. Sir W. Scott.

A lady; mistress. [India]

ough-haired. See Illust. under Dog. -- Saint Catharine's flower (Bot.), the plant love-a-mist. See under Love. -- Saint Cuthbert's beads (Paleon.), the fossil joints of crinoid stems. -- Saint Dabeoc's heath (Bot.), a heatherlike plant (Dabæcia polifolia), named from an Irish saint. -- Saint Distaff's Day. See unde…

lcohol b-D- glucopyranoside, saligenin b-D-glucopyranoside, C13H18O7. It is used in biochemistry as a standard substrate for evaluating the potency of b-glucosidase in enzymatic preparations. It is also an analgesic.

ition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope.

Fright; esp., sudden fright produced by a trifling cause, or originating in mistake. [Colloq.]

Discovered or described by C. V. Schneider, a German anatomist of the seventeenth century. Schneiderian membrane, the mucous membrane which lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.

A schoolmistress.

A schoolmistress. [Colloq.U.S.]

a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

f science, or of a science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument. Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. Lander. Scientific method, the method employed in exact science and consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observatio…

o Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott. -- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain. -- Scotch nightingale (Zoöl.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] -- Scotch pebble. See under pebble. -- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir. -- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (…