right-hand

noun

the hand that is on the right side, or the side opposite that where the heart is.

the right side, as of a person, especially this side considered as the side of precedence or courtesy.

a position of honor or special trust.

an extremely efficient or reliable person or, sometimes, tool, especially a person considered as one's assistant.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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adjective

on the right.

of, for, or with the right hand.

most reliable, valuable, or useful, as a helper or assistant.

plain-laid.

Also, right-handed. Building Trades.

(of a door) having the hinges on the right when seen from the exterior of the building, room, closet, etc., to which the doorway leads.

(of a casement sash) having the hinges on the right when seen from inside the window.

Origin:
adj. use of right hand

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right-hand

—*adj*
1.	of, relating to, located on, or moving towards the right: a right-hand bend; this car has right-hand drive
2.	for use by the right hand; right-handed
3.	right-hand man one's most valuable assistant or supporter

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"Since childhood, I have been enchanted by the fact and the symbolism of the right hand and the left—the one the doer, the other the dreamer. The right is order and lawfulness, le droit. Its beauties are those of geometry and taut implication. Reaching for knowledge with the right hand is science. Yet to say only that much of science is to overlook one of its excitements, for the great hypotheses of science are gifts carried in the right hand. Of the left hand we say that it is awkward and, while it has been proposed that art students can seduce their proper hand to more expressiveness by drawing first with the left, we nonetheless suspect this function. The French speak of the illegitimate descendent as being à main gauche, and, though the heart is virtually at the center of the thoracic cavity, we listen for it on the left. Sentiment, intuition, bastardy. And should we say that reaching for knowledge with the left hand is art? Again it is not enough, for as surely as the recital of a daydream differs from the well-wrought tale, there is a barrier between undisciplined fantasy and art. To climb the barrier requires a right hand adept at technique and artifice."

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