Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Right \Right\, n. [AS. right. See {Right}, a.]
   1. That which is right or correct. Specifically:
      (a) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to
          lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt,
          -- the opposite of moral wrong.
      (b) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood;
          adherence to truth or fact.

                Seldom your opinions err; Your eyes are always
                in the right.                     --Prior.
      (c) A just judgment or action; that which is true or
          proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.

                Long love to her has borne the faithful knight,
                And well deserved, had fortune done him right.
                                                  --Dryden.

   2. That to which one has a just claim. Specifically:
      (a) That which one has a natural claim to exact.

                There are no rights whatever, without
                corresponding duties.             --Coleridge.
      (b) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to
          exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a
          right to arrest a criminal.
      (c) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a
          claim to possess or own; the interest or share which
          anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim;
          interest; ownership.

                Born free, he sought his right.   --Dryden.

                Hast thou not right to all created things?
                                                  --Milton.

                Men have no right to what is not reasonable.
                                                  --Burke.
      (d) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.

   3. The right side; the side opposite to the left.

            Led her to the Souldan's right.       --Spenser.

   4. In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those
      members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists.
      See {Center}, 5.

   5. The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of
      cloth, a carpet, etc.

   {At all right}, at all points; in all respects. [Obs.]
      --Chaucer.

   {Bill of rights}, a list of rights; a paper containing a
      declaration of rights, or the declaration itself. See
      under {Bill}.

   {By right}, {By rights}, or {By good rights}, rightly;
      properly; correctly.

            He should himself use it by right.    --Chaucer.

            I should have been a woman by right.  --Shak.

   {Divine right}, or

   {Divine right of kings}, a name given to the patriarchal
      theory of government, especially to the doctrine that no
      misconduct and no dispossession can forfeit the right of a
      monarch or his heirs to the throne, and to the obedience
      of the people.

   {To rights}.
      (a) In a direct line; straight. [R.] --Woodward.
      (b) At once; directly. [Obs. or Colloq.] --Swift.

   {To set to rights}, {To put to rights}, to put in good order;
      to adjust; to regulate, as what is out of order.

   {Writ of right} (Law), a writ which lay to recover lands in
      fee simple, unjustly withheld from the true owner.
      --Blackstone.