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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)