Vocabulary : Dexterous to Dextro-

Dexterous : Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. ;; Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. ;; Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management.
Dexterously : In a dexterous manner; skillfully.
Dexterousness : The quality of being dexterous; dexterity.
Dextrad : Toward the right side; dextrally.
Dextral : Right, as opposed to sinistral, or left.

Dextrality : The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.
Dextrally : Towards the right; as, the hands of a watch rotate dextrally.
Dextrer : A war horse. ;; A war horse; a destrer.
Dextrin : A translucent, gummy, amorphous substance, nearly tasteless and odorless, used as a substitute for gum, for sizing, etc., and obtained from starch by the action of heat, acids, or diastase. It is of somewhat variable composition, containing several carbohydrates which change easily to their respective varieties of sugar. It is so named from its rotating the plane of polarization to the right; -- called also British gum, Alsace gum, gommelin, leiocome, etc. See Achroodextrin, and Erythrodextrin.
Dextro- : A prefix, from L. dexter, meaning, pertaining to, or toward, the right ;; having the property of turning the plane of polarized light to the right; as, dextrotartaric acid.

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