Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Right whale

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Right whale

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Rigarion
Rigel
Rigescent
Rigged
Rigger
Rigging
Riggish
Riggle
Right
Right whale
Right-about
Right-angled
Right-hand
Right-handed
Right-handedness
Right-hearted
Right-lined
Right-minded
Right-running

(1):

Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii); a bone whale.

(2):

The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained.