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

ls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.…

The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.

Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side. Earle.

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. -…

Right-handedness.

The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.

Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

The page number. The even folios are on the left-hand pages and the odd folios on the right-hand.

bserver, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed.

Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw; counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of the plane of polarization of light.

l with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. -- Optically positive, Optically negative. See under Refraction.

One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coördinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.

The right-hand page; -- opposed to verso.

and left coupling (Pipe fitting), a coupling the opposite ends of which are tapped for a right-handed screw and a left-handed screw, respectivelly. -- Right angle. (a) The angle formed by one line meeting another perpendicularly, as the angles ABD, DBC. (b) (Spherics) A spherical angle included between the axes of tw…

Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.

Pertaining to the right-hand side of a ship; being or lying on the right side; as, the starboard quarter; starboard tack.