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English → English (gcide) Definition: To right a vessel Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Righted; p. pr. & vb. n. Righting.] [AS. rihtan. See Right, a.] 1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct. [1913 Webster] 2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate. [1913 Webster] So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak. [1913 Webster] All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. --Jefferson. [1913 Webster] To right a vessel (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening. To right the helm (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel. [1913 Webster]