Category:Right-handed

Right"-*hand`ed, a.

1. Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

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.

3. (zoöl.)

Defn: having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said Of spiral shells. See illust. of scalaria. Right-handed screw, a Screw, the threads of which, like those of a common wood screw, wind Spirally in such a direction that screw advances away from the Observer when turned with a right-handed movement in a fixed nut.