a. 1. Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Chiefly relied on; almost indispensable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mr. Alexander Truncheon, who is their right-hand man in the troop. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right-hand rope, a rope which is laid up and twisted with the sun, that is, in the same direction as plain-laid rope. See Illust. of Cordage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

Right-handed screw, a screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind spirally in such a direction that the screw advances away from the observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]