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Rightful
() Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.
Rightful
() Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause.
Rightful
() Having the right or just claim according to established laws; being or holding by right; as, the rightful heir to a throne or an estate; a rightful king.
Rightful
() Belonging, held, or possessed by right, or by just claim; as, a rightful inheritance; rightful authority.
Rightfully
() According to right or justice.
Rightfulness
() The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.
Rightfulness
() Moral rectitude; righteousness.
Right-hand
() Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
Right-hand
() Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
Right-handed
() Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
Right-handed
() Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
Right-handed
() Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.
Right-handedness
() The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
Right-hearted
() Having a right heart or disposition.
Rightless
() Destitute of right.
Right-lined
() Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
Rightly
() Straightly; directly; in front.
Rightly
() According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.
Rightly
() Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Rightly
() According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly.
Right-minded
() Having a right or honest mind.
Rightness
() Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
Rightness
() The quality or state of being right; right relation.
Right-running
() Straight; direct.
Rightward
() Toward the right.
Right whale
() The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.
Right whale
() Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
Rightwise
() Righteous.
Rightwise
() To make righteous.
Rightwisely
() Righteously.
Rightwiseness
() Righteousness.
Rigid
() Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Rigid
() Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
Rigidity
() The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability, and softness.
Rigidity
() Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
Rigidity
() Severity; rigor.
Rigidly
() In a rigid manner; stiffly.
Rigidness
() The quality or state of being rigid.
Rigidulous
() Somewhat rigid or stiff; as, a rigidulous bristle.
Riglet
() See Reglet.
Rigmarole
() A succession of confused or nonsensical statements; foolish talk; nonsense.
Rigmarole
() Consisting of rigmarole; frovolous; nonsensical; foolish.
Rigol
() A circle; hence, a diadem.
Rigoll
() A musical instrument formerly in use, consisting of several sticks bound together, but separated by beads, and played with a stick with a ball at its end.
Rigor
() Rigidity; stiffness.
Rigor
() A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
Rigor
() The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
Rigor
() See 1st Rigor, 2.
Rigor
() Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
Rigor
() Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.