Class B
“Right” as Descriptive of the Method (or Object) by Which the Desired End Can be Obtained.
Here the purpose involved, or the end sought, is neither praised nor blamed. Nor have we indeed as yet reached any basis by which a criterion of purposes and ends can be established. So far as we have gone, “right” implies technique, and nothing more.
The members of this class are as follows:
13. The “right” information.
14. “Right” whale; the one to capture in order to get whalebone.
15. “Rub your sarsnet well, the right way of the sarsnet.”
16. “Let it be a constant rule to scrub the boards the right way of the grain, that is, lengthwise.”
17. “The ship ceased rolling and righted herself.” (Compare this signification with perpendicular, previously given.)
18. “Stand it upright, or it will fall.”
19. “Whose inhabitants were right shooters (at an haires breadth and faile not).”
20. “Swears he will shoot no more, but play with sparrows, And be a boy right out.”
21. “I am right of mine old master’s humour for that.”