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right-handed, a. (adv.)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. a. Having the right hand or arm stronger or more useful than the left; using the right hand by preference; = dextrous a. 6. Also transf.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.), A womman is nought right handed and lifte handed. 1581Mulcaster Positions xix. (1887) 81 Double right handed which vse both the handes a like. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. vii. 80 A ranke [of archers] on the right side, whiche are lefthanded, and another vpon the left being right handed. 1629Sir W. Hope Fencing-Master *4 If you are a Right-Handed Man. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Epid. 191 Some are..ambidexterous or right handed on both sides. 1833J. Nyren Yng. Cricketer's Tutor 68 If bowling to a right-handed hitter, his ball would twist from the off-stump into the leg. 1885Myers in Proc. Psychical Res. Jan. 58 The following formulæ will represent the graphic automatism of a right-handed man.
b. fig. Skilful, dexterous. rare.
a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 424 He was right-handed in the Cyclopædia of all arts. Ibid. III. 372 He was..right-handed to any great employment.
2. On the right side; of the right kind.
1656Bramhall Replic. i. 8 Yet these [schisms] were not about the essentialls of Religion, but about a right-handed error, even too much admiration of their Pastors. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. II. 295, I this last conclusion draw, That for smart right-handed wisdom none my equal ever saw.
3. In various uses:
a. Pertaining or belonging to the right hand.
b. Of a blow: Delivered with the right hand.
c. Of implements, etc.: Fashioned for the right hand.
1700T. Brown tr. Fresny's Amusem. Wks. 1709 III. 28 A London Alderman, who sold a Jew five Fatts of Right-handed Gloves, without any Fellows to them. a1820Debtor & Creditor 41 If you resent that, it's ten to one but you're complimented with a right-handed facer. 1828Scott F.M. Perth v, I..am sorry for that poor lover who will never wear right-handed chevron again. 1891Sir D. Wilson Right Hand 138 It is a right-handed implement.
4. Conchol.
†a. Sinistral; reversed. Obs.
b. = dextral a. 2.
1776Da Costa Elem. Conchol. 119 Right-handed shells are such, whose whirls or convolutions turn from right to left, or contrary to the most general manner of turbinated univalves. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 108/2 Shell cylindrical, very spiral;..right or left-handed (dextral or sinistral). 1851Woodward Mollusca i. 99 Nearly all the spiral shells are dextral, or right-handed.
5. a. In scientific and technical uses: Characterized by rotation or direction towards the right. Also as adv. (quot. 1841).
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 146 We have represented..the grinding surface of the upper mill-stone, upon the supposition that it moves from east to west, or for what is called a right-handed mill. 1841Dana Seaman's Man. 34 Ropes..of three strands, laid right handed, or, as it is called, with the sun. 1846Holtzapffel Turning II. 604 An..imperfect expedient for producing a left-handed screw from a right-handed tap. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. x. (ed. 2) 360 Running rigging is hawser-laid, right-handed. 1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 52 Electromagnets are almost invariably wound with the right-handed helix.
b. Of rotatory polarization: (see quot. 1854).
1827–8Herschel in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) IV. 550 The liquids in which he observed a right-handed rotatory property. 1854Pereira's Polarized Light (ed. 2) 254, I shall adopt Biot's nomenclature, and designate the polarization right-handed or left-handed, according as we have to turn the analyzing prism to the right or to the left. c1865Wylde Circ. Sci. I. 84/2 Such bodies have what is called right-handed polarisation.
c. Producing right-handed polarization.
1827–8Herschel in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) IV. 550 The index of rotation in a right-handed crystal. 1831Brewster Optics xxvi. 218 Hence, in reference to this property, quartz may be divided into right-handed and left-handed quartz. 1869Roscoe Elem. Chem. 396 Dextrose, or right-handed glucose.
6. In the direction of the right; rightward. Also as adv., to the right.
1900Westm. Gaz. 19 Jan. 3/1 A right-handed turn brought the hunt near Billesdon. Ibid. 30 Nov. 4/3 Turning right-handed short of Norton Brook. 1910Blackw. Mag. July 24/1 A single stag has swung right-handed. 1929Morning Post 30 Dec. 13/1 He [sc. a fox]..left at the Toft end going straight..over the railway, leaving Kingston village right-handed. 1936P. Fleming News from Tartary 194 We turned right-handed and slanted down to the foothills. 1976Horse & Hound 3 Dec. 22/2 He ran right-handed over Clawson Lodge, Clawson Hill Farm..where he tried the earths.
Hence right-ˈhandedly adv., right-ˈhandedness.
1855Scoffern in Orr's Circ. Sci., Chem. 82 The amount of right-handedness or left-handedness displayed by the solution. 1876D. Wilson Preh. Man (ed. 3) I. 107 The question of right-handedness, as a natural or acquired practice peculiar to man, has a special interest. 1882Encycl. Brit. XIV. 613/1 The motion takes place in one direction (say right-handedly) in the circle. |