Word Meanings - RIGHTHANDED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.

• Risorial
  Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles.
• Handicapper
  One who determines the conditions of a handicap.
• Spiralozooid
  One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.
• Handmaiden
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• Turningness
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation.
• Handyy-dandy
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit.
• Turnstile
  A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• HANDYWORK
  See Handiwork.
• Illustriousness
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• TURNSICK
  Giddy. [Obs.] Bacon.
• Commons
  The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
• Rightful
  Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.
• Fixedness
  The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
• Rightwisely
  Righteously.
• Handcraftsman
  A handicraftsman.
• Handcuff
  A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; -- usually in the plural.
• Risotto
  A kind of pottage.
• Handicraft
  A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
• Those
  The plural of that. See That.

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