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Dexter :: Dexter (a.) Pertaining to, or situated on, the right hand; right, as opposed to sinister, or left..

Baton :: Baton (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister..

Scarp :: Scarp (n.) A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only half as broad as the latter..

Purity :: Purity (n.) Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views.

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger; as, a sinister countenance..

Sinisterly :: Sinisterly (adv.) In a sinister manner.

Leer :: Leer (n.) A distorted expression of the face, or an indirect glance of the eye, conveying a sinister or immodest suggestion..

Purpure :: Purpure (n.) Purple, -- represented in engraving by diagonal lines declining from the right top to the left base of the escutcheon (or from sinister chief to dexter base)..

Awk :: Awk (a.) Wrong, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end)..

Contourne'' :: Contourne' (a.) Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of an animal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter, or the like..

Bend :: Bend (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base..

Saltirewise :: Saltirewise (adv.) In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center..

Chevron :: Chevron (n.) One of the nine honorable ordinaries, consisting of two broad bands of the width of the bar, issuing, respectively from the dexter and sinister bases of the field and conjoined at its center..

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences..

Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims..

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not straightforward; indirect; obscure; hence, disingenuous; underhand; perverse; sinister..

Chief :: Chief (n.) The upper third part of the field. It is supposed to be composed of the dexter, sinister, and middle chiefs..

Left-handed :: Left-handed (a.) Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment..

Infaust :: Infaust (a.) Not favorable; unlucky; unpropitious; sinister.

Lozengy :: Lozengy (a.) Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister..

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