[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

right \right\, n. as. right. see right, a.
   1. that which is right or correct. specifically:
      a the straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to
          lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt,
          -- the opposite of moral wrong.
      b a true statement; freedom from error of falsehood;
          adherence to truth or fact.
          1913 webster

                seldom your opinions err;
                your eyes are always in the right. --prior.
          1913 webster
      c a just judgment or action; that which is true or
          proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
          1913 webster

                long love to her has borne the faithful knight,
                and well deserved, had fortune done him right.
                                                  --dryden.
          1913 webster

   2. that to which one has a just claim. specifically:
      a that which one has a natural claim to exact.
          1913 webster

                there are no rights whatever, without
                corresponding duties.             --coleridge.
          1913 webster
      b that which one has a legal or social claim to do or to
          exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a
          right to arrest a criminal.
      c that which justly belongs to one; that which one has a
          claim to possess or own; the interest or share which
          anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim;
          interest; ownership.
          1913 webster

                born free, he sought his right.   --dryden.
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                hast thou not right to all created things?
                                                  --milton.
          1913 webster

                men have no right to what is not reasonable.
                                                  --burke.
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      d privilege or immunity granted by authority.
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   3. the right side; the side opposite to the left.
      1913 webster

            led her to the souldan's right.       --spenser.
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   4. in some legislative bodies of europe as in france, those
      members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists.
      see center, 5.
      1913 webster

   5. the outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of
      cloth, a carpet, etc.
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   at all right, at all points; in all respects. obs.
      --chaucer.

   bill of rights, a list of rights; a paper containing a
      declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. see
      under bill.

   by right, by rights, or by good rights, rightly;
      properly; correctly.
      1913 webster

            he should himself use it by right.    --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            i should have been a woman by right.  --shak.
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   divine right, or

   divine right of kings, a name given to the patriarchal
      theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no
      misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a
      monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience
      of the people.

   to rights.
      a in a direct line; straight. r. --woodward.
      b at once; directly. obs. or colloq. --swift.

   to set to rights, to put to rights, to put in good order;
      to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order.

   writ of right law, a writ which lay to recover lands in
      fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
      --blackstone.
      1913 webster
see also:
right center at all right bill of rights bill by right 
by rights by good rights divine right divine right of kings to rights 
to set to rights to put to rights writ of right 

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