Word Meanings - WHALEBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

• Otherwhiles
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.
• 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.
• RIGHTANGLED
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• Righteoused
  Made righteous.
• Right-running
  Straight; direct.
• 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
• Resemblable
  Admitting of being compared; like.
• Righteously
  In a righteous manner; as, to judge righteously.
• Rightward
  Toward the right.
• Uppermost
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
• RIGHTHANDEDNESS
  The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
• Elastic
  Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic.
• Resemblance
  The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
• Righteousness
  The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.
• Right whale
  The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.

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