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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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10 words match “RIGHT-HANDED”

RIGHT-HANDED a. 3 definitions
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.…
RIGHT-HANDEDNESS n.
The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
DEXTERITY n.
Right-handedness.
DEXTRALITY n.
The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness. Sir T. Browne.
ENANTIOMORPHOUS a.
Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.
LEFT-HANDED a.
bserver, when turned, as in a nut, with a left-handed rotation. An ordinary wood screw is right-handed.
LEVOROTATION n.
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.
OPTICALLY adv.
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.
RIGHT a.
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…
SHROUD-LAID a.
Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage.