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On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side. Dexter chief, or Dexter point (Her.), a point in the dexter upper corner of the shield, being in the dexter extremity of the chief, as A in the cut. -…

Toward the right side; dextrally.

which turn from left right, or like the hands of a watch when the apex of the spire is toward the eye of the observer.

(adv. Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.

A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right; (Chem. & Opt.)

Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as, dextrorotatory crystals, sugars, etc. Cf. Levorotatory.

f organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

A tendency of leaves or other organs of plants to have their dorsal surface faced towards the rays of light.

To those Jews who, after the Exile, were scattered through the Old World, and afterwards to Jewish Christians living among heathen. Cf. James i.1.

An arbitrament or award.

s a contention in public. Shak. Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.

k on such questions with diffidence. Macaulay. An Englishman's habitual diffidence and awkwardness of adress. W. Irving.

fort. Grant that we may in such wise hear them [the Scriptures], read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them. Book of Common Prayer.

To sound with a din; a ding. The gay viol dinning in the dale. A. Seward.

rom the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.

To incline downward from the plane of the horizon; as, strata of rock dip.

The act of inclining downward.

Straightforward; not of crooked ways, or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken. Be even and direct with me. Shak.

In a straightforward way; without anything intervening; not by secondary, but by direct, means.

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.