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Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.

Primitive; primary; original. [R.] The grand originary right of all rights. Hickok.

A combining form signifying straight, right, upright, correct, regular; as, orthodromy, orthodiagonal, orthodox, orthographic.

mon or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinic system and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. See Feldspar.

Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.

The diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which is at right angles with the vertical axis.

Right-angled; rectangular; as, an orthogonal intersection of one curve with another. Orthogonal projection. See under Orthographic.

Perpendicularly; at right angles; as, a curve cuts a set of curves orthogonally.

Of or pertaining to orthography, or right spelling; also, correct in spelling; as, orthographical rules; the letter was orthographic.

The right description of things. [R.] Fotherby.

Having the axes at right angles to one another; -- said of crystals or crystalline forms.

Having the right form. Orthomorphic projection, a projection in which the angles in the figure to be projected are equal to the corresponding angles in the projected figure.

Noting the system of crystallization which has three unequal axes at right angles to each other; trimetric. See Crystallization.

Cutting at right angles. Orthotomic circle (Geom.), that circle which cuts three given circles at right angles.

Having two cleavages at right angles with one another.

The property of cutting at right angles.

nd of two. Each of them made other for to win. Chaucer. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. Matt. v. 39.

The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness. [R.] N. W. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I. The Lord is our defense. Ps. lxxxix. 18.

To outweight; to exceed in weight or effect. Let dull Ajax bear away my right When all his days outbalance this one night. Dryden.