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Right-hand

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

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Helpful 84% connected

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Helpful 84% connected

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Right 84% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Right 84% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Right-handed 84% connected

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

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Right-handed 84% connected

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

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Right 92% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Ambidextral adjective · 78% connection

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

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Boustrophedon noun · 78% connection

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowe…

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Bow hand unknown · 78% connection

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand.

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Center noun · 78% connection

Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who support the existing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative…

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Crossroad noun · 78% connection

A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.

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Cut-off noun · 78% connection

That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

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Dexter adjective · 78% connection

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 representa…

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Dextrality noun · 78% connection

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

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Dextrorotatory adjective · 78% connection

Turning, or causing to turn, toward the right hand; esp., turning the plane of polarization of luminous rays toward the right hand; as…

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Diagonal noun · 78% connection

(mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from t…

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Direct verb · 78% connection

To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to t…

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Drawing-room noun · 78% connection

A room appropriated for the reception of company; a room to which company withdraws from the dining room.

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Escutcheon noun · 78% connection

The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the…

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Far adjective · 78% connection

The more distant of two; as, the far side (called also off side) of a horse, that is, the right side, or the one opposite to the rider…

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Flank noun · 78% connection

The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to attack…

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Folio noun · 78% connection

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

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Hither adjective · 78% connection

Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.

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