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Right :: Right (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals..

Boating :: Boating (n.) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free..

Enantiomorphous :: Enantiomorphous (a.) Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals..

Bequest :: Bequest (n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift..

Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

Left-handiness :: Left-handiness (n.) The state or quality of being left-handed; awkwardness.

Bow Hand :: Bow hand () The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand..

Dexter :: Dexter (a.) On the right-hand side of a shield, i. e., towards the right hand of its wearer. To a spectator in front, as in a pictorial representation, this would be the left side..

Main-gauche :: Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier..

Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..

Roxburgh :: Roxburgh (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut..

Aport :: Aport (adv.) On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

Dextrorse :: Dextrorse (a.) Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glory..

Desert :: Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place..

Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..

Bossage :: Bossage (n.) A stone in a building, left rough and projecting, to be afterward carved into shape..

Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

But :: But (v. t.) A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.

Succiduous :: Successor (n.) One who succeeds or follows; one who takes the place which another has left, and sustains the like part or character; -- correlative to predecessor; as, the successor of a deceased king..

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