dexter

adjective

1. 1

   Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)

   my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:

   Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?"

   Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.

   The shield was divided into five, with two coats of arms on the dexter side (the right-hand side from the point of view of the bearer of the shield)—London and Southampton—and three on the sinister side—Salisbury, Winchester and Portsmouth.

noun

1. 1

   The right side (of a building, an equation, a heraldic shield [from the wearer's perspective], etc).

   Subtracting the second from the first, the third from the second and the first from the third successively, we obtain, after transposition, the following identities: — [several equations] But, the sinisters being exact differentials, the dexters are so. Consequently [...]

   On the dexter of the court is a long hall with an arched ceiling and a door, leading to a small oblong shrine with a vaulted ceiling.

Forms

plural

dexters