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right away!
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Away
·adv From a place; hence.
II. Away ·adv Aside; off; in another direction.
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Right
·adv Exactly; just.
II. Right ·adv In a right manner.
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right
All right! A favourite expression among thieves, to signify that all is as they wish, or proper for ...
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right
As to direction, fully or directly; thus, right ahead, or right away, &c.
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Away-going
·adj Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration;
— said of cr...
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Right whale
·- The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone...
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Right-about
·noun A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quar...
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Right-angled
·adj Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
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Right-hand
·adj Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable.
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Right-handed
·adj Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
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Right-handedness
·noun The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.
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Right-hearted
·adj Having a right heart or disposition.
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Right-lined
·adj Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
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Right-minded
·adj Having a right or honest mind.
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Right-running
·adj Straight; direct.
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Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James
P.C., LL.D., D.C.L., etc.
(b. 1848)
Statesman and philosophic writer. A Defence of Philosophic Dou...
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Bryce, Right Hon. James
P.C., D.C.L., etc.
(b. 1838)
Historical and political writer, etc. The Holy Roman Empire (1862), T...
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Gasquet, Right Rev. Francis Aidan
D.D.
(b. 1846)
Historical writer. Henry VIII. and the English Monasteries (1888-89), Edward VI. an...
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to spirit away
To kidnap, or inveigle away.
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miner's right
n.
the licence to dig for gold.See quotation.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `The Miner's Right,' p. 1:
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to blaze away
To keep up a discharge of fire-arms. A good English phrase.
The hunter (of the west) attacks the ol...
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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors.
A well-known ...
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right off
Directly; immediately.
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ascension right
See right ascension.
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away aloft
The order to the men in the rigging to start up.
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away off
At a distance, but in sight.
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away there
The call for a boat's crew; as, "away there! barge-men."
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bowling away
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bolling or bowling away
Going with a free wind.
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cast-away
Shipwrecked.
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ease away!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall.
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fire-away
Go on with your remarks.
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fly-away
Fictitious resemblance of land; "Dutchman's cape," &c. (See cape fly-away.)
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here-away
A term when a look-out man announces a rhumb or bearing of any object in this quarter.
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lash away
A phrase to hasten the lashing of hammocks.
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pay away
The same as paying out (which see). To pass out the slack of a cable or rope.
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right angle
An angle formed by a line rising or falling perpendicularly upon another, and measuring 90°, or the ...
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right ascension
An arc of the equator between the first point of Aries, and the hour circle which passes through any...
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right athwart
Square, or at right angles with the keel.
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right sailing
Running a course on one of the four cardinal points, so as to alter only a ship's latitude, or longi...
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right way
When the ship's head casts in the desired direction. Also, when she swings clear at single anchor.
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right whale
A name applied to the whale with a very large head and no dorsal fin, which yields the whalebone and...
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there away!
A phrase accompanied by pointing on a bearing, or to an object in sight. Thereabout, in that quarter...
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walk away!
The order to step out briskly with a tackle fall, as in hoisting boats.
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where away?
In what bearing? a question to the man at the mast-head to designate in what direction a strange sai...
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right-of-way
n.
a lane. In England the wordindicates a legal right to use a particular passage. InAustralia it i...
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away she goes
The order to step out with the tackle fall. The cry when a vessel starts on the ways launching; also...
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away with it
The order to walk along briskly with a tackle fall, as catting the anchor, &c.
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cape fly-away
A cloud-bank on the horizon, mistaken for land, which disappears as the ship advances. (See fog.)
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carry away, to
To break; as, "That ship has carried away her fore-topmast," i.e. has broken it off. It is customary...
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ease away there!
,or ease away there!
To slacken out a rope or tackle-fall carefully.
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edge away, to
To decline gradually from the course which the ship formerly steered, by sailing larger, or more off...
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north-away yawl
The old term for Norway yawl (which see).
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pull-away-boys
A name given on the West Coast of Africa to the native Kroo-men, who are engaged by the shipping to ...
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right-angled triangle
That which has one right angle.
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right-hand rope
That which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is to the right hand; the term is opposed to wa...
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right the helm!
The order to put it amidships, that is, in a line with the keel.
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right on end
In a continuous line; as the masts should be.
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search, right of
See visitation and search.
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stand right under!
Jocularly, "Get out of the way."
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wind away, to
To steer through narrow channels.
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muzzle to the right!
, or muzzle to the left!
The order given to trim the gun to the object.
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right up and down
Said in a dead calm, when the wind is no way at all. Or, in anchor work, when the cable is in that c...
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run away with it!
The order to men on a tackle fall, when light goods are being hoisted in, or in hoisting top-sails, ...
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run away with her anchor
Said of a ship when she drags or "shoulders" her anchor; drifting away owing to the anchor not holdi...
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veer away the cable, to
To slack and let it run out.
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walking away with the anchor
Said of a ship which is dragging, or shouldering, her anchor; or when, from fouling the stock or upp...
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fallen away from a horse load to a cart load
A saying on one grown fat.
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