That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. Whately.

In this battle, . . . the Britons never more plainly manifested themselves to be right barbarians. Milton.

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 die." Locke.

The lady has been disappointed on the right side. Spectator.

Became the sovereign's favorite, his right hand. Longfellow.

* In designating the banks of a river, right and left are used always with reference to the position of one who is facing in the direction of the current's flow.

At right angles, so as to form a right angle or right angles, as when one line crosses another perpendicularly. -- Right and left, in both or all directions. [Colloq.] -- Right 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 two great circles whose planes are perpendicular to each other. -- Right ascension. See under Ascension. -- Right Center (Politics), those members belonging to the Center in a legislative assembly who have sympathies with the Right on political questions. See Center, n., 5. -- Right cone, Right cylinder, Right prism, Right pyramid (Geom.), a cone, cylinder, prism, or pyramid, the axis of which is perpendicular to the base. -- Right line. See under Line. -- Right sailing (Naut.), sailing on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter a ship's latitude or its longitude, but not both. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Right sphere (Astron. *** Geol.), a sphere in such a position that the equator cuts the horizon at right angles] in spherical projections, that position of the sphere in which the primitive plane coincides with the plane of the equator.

* Right is used elliptically for it is right, what you say is right, true.

"Right," cries his lordship. Pope.

Syn. -- Straight; direct; perpendicular; upright; lawful; rightful; true; correct; just; equitable; proper; suitable; becoming.

Unto Dian's temple goeth she right. Chaucer.

Let thine eyes look right on. Prov. iv. 25.

Right across its track there lay,
Down in the water, a long reef of gold. Tennyson.

Came he right now to sing a raven's note? Shak.

You with strict discipline instructed right. Roscommon.

Right as it were a steed of Lumbardye. Chaucer.

His wounds so smarted that he slept right naught. Fairfax.

For which I should be right sorry. Tyndale.

[I] return those duties back as are right fit. Shak.

* In this sense now chiefly prefixed to titles; as, right honorable; right reverend.

Right honorable, a title given in England to peers and peeresses, to the eldest sons and all daughters of such peers as have rank above viscounts, and to all privy councilors; also, to certain civic officers, as the lord mayor of London, of York, and of Dublin.

* Right is used in composition with other adverbs, as upright, downright, forthright, etc.

Right along, without cessation; continuously; as, to work right along for several hours. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Right away, or Right off, at once; straightway; without delay. [Colloq. U.S.] "We will . . . shut ourselves up in the office and do the work right off." D. Webster.

Led her to the Souldan's right. Spenser.

At all right, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See under Bill. -- By right, By rights, or By good rights, rightly; properly; correctly.

He should himself use it by right. Chaucer.

I should have been a woman by right. Shak.

-- Divine right, or Divine right of kings, a name given to the patriarchal theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience of the people. -- To rights. (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] Woodward. (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Swift. -- To set to rights, To put to rights, to put in good order; to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order. -- Writ of right (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner. Blackstone.

So just is God, to right the innocent. Shak.

All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Jefferson.

To right a vessel (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. -- To right the helm (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel.