Word Meanings - RIGHTABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about. To send to the right-about, to cause to turn toward the opposite point or quarter; -- hence, of troops, to cause to turn and retreat. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

• Retreating
  of Retreat
• Rightfulness
  The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.
• Scottering
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• Turncoat
  One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
• Turnover
  The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
• Colloquialism
  A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing.
• CAUSEWAYCAUSEY
  A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.
• Pointal
  The pistil of a plant.
• RIGHTHEARTED
  Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n.
• Quarterage
  A quarterly allowance.
• Quarter-deck
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
• Retreatful
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat.
• Right-hand
  Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.
• Scotticism
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen.
• Turnpike
  A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
• Colloquialize
  To make colloquial and familiar; as, to colloquialize one's style of writing.
• CAUSEWAYEDCAUSEYED
  Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• Point-blank
  The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
• RIGHTLINED
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.

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