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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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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