dexter

Definition

Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin dexter (“right”).

Example Sentences

• "my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:"
• "Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?""
• "Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid."