Word Meanings - RIGHT-ABOUT - 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.

• Quarterly
  Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
• Righteous
  Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution.
• Rightness
  Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
• Turnerite
  A variety of monazite.
• Turnpiking
  of Turnpike
• RIGHTABOUT
  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,
• Quarterlies
  of Quarterly
• Righteoused
  Made righteous.
• Right-running
  Straight; direct.
• Turnery
  The art of fashioning solid bodies into cylindrical or other forms by means of a lathe.
• Turnplate
  A turntable.
• RIGHTANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• Quartermaster
  An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
• Righteously
  In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
• Rightward
  Toward the right.
• Turn-sick
  Giddy.
• RIGHTHANDED
  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 fro
• About-sledge
  The largest hammer used by smiths.

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