Crossword-Solution: DEXTRAL 7 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

With gasteropods or shell-fish, the right and left sides are extremely unlike; the far greater number of species are dextral, with rare and occasional reversals of development; and some few are normally sinistral; but certain species of Bulimus, and many Achatinellæ[61] are as often sinistral as dextral.

Thus in a reversed or sinistral Flounder, which is normally dextral, the left side which is uppermost is still the left side, but it has colour and two eyes, whereas in the normal specimen the right side has these characters and not the left.

Glenn sat before a blazing fire in his little castle, his left hand clasping a closed book he had been reading, while his dextral elbow was resting on the rude arm of a chair which he had constructed and cushioned with furs, and his palm supported his chin.

Occasionally the dextral circuit is followed in cases in which it is evidently less convenient than the sinistral would be, as in dealing cards in all ordinary games.

But doubtless instances go to show that among Asiatic and European peoples the general belief or feeling is that the dextral circuit--_i.e._, clockwise, or with the apparent motion of the sun--is the correct and auspicious direction." "As contra-sunwise notions were thought to be of ill omen or to be able to work in supernatural ways, so it came to be believed that to reverse other acts--as, for instance, reading the Bible or repeating the Lord's Prayer backward--might produce powerful counter-charms.