3. Properly; fitly; suitably; appropriately.
Eve rightly called, Mother of all mankind.
Milton. 4. According to truth or fact; correctly; not erroneously; exactly. "I can not rightly say." Shak.
Thou didst not rightly see.
Dryden. Right-minded
(Right"-mind`ed) a. Having a right or honest mind. — Right"-mind`ed*ness, n.
Rightness
(Right"ness), n. [AS. rihtnes.] Straightness; as, the rightness of a line. Bacon.
2. The quality or state of being right; right relation.
The craving for rightness with God.
J. C. Shairp. Right-running
(Right"-run`ning) a. Straight; direct.
Rightward
(Right"ward) adv. Toward the right.
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
Southey. Right whale
(Right" whale`) (Zoöl.) (a) The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balæna mysticetus),
from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. (b) Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone,
as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.
Pygmy right whale (Zoöl.), a small New Zealand whale (Neobalæna marginata) which is only about
sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.
Rightwise
(Right"wise`) a. Righteous. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Rightwise
(Right"wise`), v. t. To make righteous. [Obs.]
Rightwisely
(Right"wise`ly), adv. Righteously. [Obs.]
Rightwiseness
(Right"wise`ness), n. Righteousness. [Obs.]
In doom and eke in rightwisnesse.
Chaucer. Rigid
(Rig"id) a. [L. rigidus, fr. rigere to be stiff or numb: cf. F. rigide. Cf. Rigor. ]
1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
Upright beams innumerable
Of rigid spears.
Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid
criticism; a rigid sentence.
The more rigid order of principles in religion and government.
Hawthorne. Syn. — Stiff; unpliant; inflexible; unyielding; strict; exact; severe; austere; stern; rigorous; unmitigated.
Rigidity
(Ri*gid"i*ty) n. [L. rigiditas: cf. F. rigidité. See Rigid.]
1. The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount
of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; — opposed to flexibility, ductility, malleability,
and softness.
