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His batter’d rigging their whole war receives; 
All bare, likejome old oak with tempests beat, 
He stands, and sees below his scatter’d leaves. Dryden. 
See, for the arrangement and use of rigging, the article 
Ship-Building. 
RI'GGISH, adj. [from rig, a strumpet.] Wanton. 
Vilest things 
Become themselves in her, that the holy, priests 
Bless her, when she is riggish. Shakspeare. 
To RI'GGLE, v. n. To agitate the body backward and 
forward, in a writhing manner: properly •wriggle. Wri¬ 
thing implies such motion with pain, wriggle the reverse.— 
Truth, by the information of her own light, points out the 
straight road to her abode ; and forbids us to riggle into her 
presence through by-paths, and the cloudy medium of false¬ 
hood. Warburton. 
RIGHT, adj. [from reoht. Germ, and Teut. ritto, Ital. 
rectus, Lat. “ The application of the same word to denote 
a straight line, and moral rectitude of conduct, has 
obtained in every language I know.” Ditgald Stewart.] 
Fit; proper; becoming; suitable.—A time there will be, 
when all these unequal distributions of good and evil shall 
be set right, and the wisdom of all his transactions made as 
clear as the noon-day. Atterbury. —Rightful; justly claim¬ 
ing.—There being no law of nature, nor positive law of 
God, that determines which is the right heir in all cases, 
the right of succession could not have been certainly deter¬ 
mined. Locke. —True; not erroneous; not wrong.—If 
there be no prospect beyond the grave, the inference is cer¬ 
tainly right, Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. 
Locke. —If my present and past experience do exactly coin, 
cide, I shall then be disposed to think them both right. 
Beattie. —Not mistaken; passing a true judgment; passing 
judgment according to the truth of things. 
You are right. Justice, and you weigh this well; 
Therefore still bear the balance and the sword. Shakspeare. 
Just; honest; equitable; not criminal.—Their heart was 
not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his cove¬ 
nant. Ps. lxxviii. 37.—Happy; convenient. — The lady 
has been disappointed on the right side, and found nothing 
more disagreeable in the husband, than she discovered in 
the lover. Addison .—Not left.—It is not with certainty to 
be received, concerning the right and left hand, that men 
naturally make use of the right, and that the use of the 
other is a digression. Brown. 
The left foot naked, when they march to fight. 
But in a bull’s raw hide they sheathe the right. Dryden. 
Straight; not crooked.—The idea of a right lined triangle 
necessarily carries with it an equality of its angles to two 
right ones. Locke. —Perpendicular; direct. 
RIGHT, interject. An expression of approbation. 
Right, cries his lordship, for a rogue in need, 
To have a taste, is insolence indeed : 
In me ’tis noble, suits my birth and state. Pope. 
RIGHT, adv. Properly ; justly ; exactly; according to 
truth, or justice.—To understand political power right, and 
derive it from its original, we must consider what state all 
men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom 
to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and 
persons. Locke. —According to art or rule. 
Take heed you steer your vessel right, my son. 
This calm of heaven, this mermaid’s melody, 
Into an unseen whirlpool draws you fast, 
And in a moment sinks you. Dryden. 
In a direct line ; in a straight line.—Let thine eyes look 
right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 
Prov. iv. 25.—This way, right dow’n to Paradise descend. 
Milton. —In a great degree; very. Now obsolete. 
Right many a widow his keen blade, 
And many fatherless, had made. Jludibras. 
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It is still used in titles: as right honourable ; right reve¬ 
rend. —Just.—Came he right now to sing a raven’s note? 
Shakspeare. —Immediately; at the instant. 
I do see the cruel pangs of death 
Right in thine eye. Shakspeare. 
RIGHT, s. Not wrong. 
One rising, eminent 
In wise deport, spake much of right and wrong, 
Of justice, of religion, truth, and peace. 
And judgment from above. Milton. 
Justice; not injury. 
Long love to her has borne the faithful knight, 
And well deserv’d, had fortune done him right. Dryden. 
He that would do right to religion, cannot take a more 
effectual course, than by reconciling it with the happiness of 
mankind. Til/otson. —Freedom from guilt; goodness. 
His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong, his life I’m sure was in the right. Cowley. 
Freedom from error. 
Seldom your opinions err; 
Your eyes are always in the right. Prior. 
Just claim.—The Roman citizens were, by the sword, 
taught to acknowledge the pope their lord, though they 
knew not by what right. Ralegh. —Descriptions, figure, 
and fables must be in all heroic poems; every poet hath as 
much right to them, as every man hath to air. Dryden. 
—That which justly belongs to one.—To thee doth the right 
of her appertain, seeing thou only art of her kindred. 
Tob. vi. 11. 
The prisoner freed himself by nature’s laws, 
Bom free, he sought his right. Dryden. 
Property; interest. 
A subject in his prince may claim a right. 
Nor suffer him with strength impair’d to fight. Dryden. 
Power; prerogative.—God hath a sovereign right over us, 
as we are his creatures, and by virtue of this right, he 
might, without injustice, have imposed difficult tasks: but 
in making laws, he hath not made use of this right. Til- 
lotson. —Immunity; privilege. 
The citizens. 
Let them but have their rights, and ever forward 
In celebration of this day with shews. Shakspeare. 
The side not left. 
On his r’ght 
The radiant image of his glory sat. 
His only Son. Milton. 
To RIGHTS. In a direct line; straight. Unused. — 
These strata failing, the whole tract sinks down to rights 
into the abyss, and is swallowed up by it. Woodward. — 
With deliverance from error; in order.—Several have gone 
about to inform them, and set them to rights; but for want 
of that knowledge of the present system of nature, have not 
given the satisfaction expected. Woodward. 
To RIGHT, v. a. To do justice to ; to establish in pos¬ 
sessions justly claimed; to relieve from wrong. 
How will this grieve you. 
When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that 
You thus have published me ? gentle my lord, 
You scarce can right me throughly. Shakspeare. 
If the injured person be not righted, every one of them 
is wholly guilty of the injustice, and bound to restitution. 
Bp. Taylor. —[In naval language.] To restore a ship to her 
upright position, after she has been laid on a careen; to put 
any thing in its proper position : as, to right the helm. 
To RIGHT, v. n. A ship is said to right at sea, when 
she rises with her masts erected, after having been pressed 
down on one side by the effort of her sails, or a heavy squall 
of wind. Falconer. 
RIGHTS, Bill of, in Law, is a declaration, delivered by 
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