The craving for rightness with God.
J. C. Shairp.
Right"-run`ning (?), a. Straight; direct.
Right"ward (?), adv. Toward the right.
Rightward and leftward rise the rocks.
Southey.
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 (Balæna cisarctica), 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.
Right"wise` (?), a. Righteous. [Obs.] Wyclif.