Usually means: Right-hand side; skillful, adroit.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dexter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dexter, dexter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dexter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dexter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dexter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dexter, dexter: Wordnik
  7. Dexter, dexter: Wiktionary
  8. dexter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. dexter: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dexter: Dictionary.com
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  12. Dexter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. dexter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. dexter: Rhymezone
  15. Dexter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. dexter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. dexter: Free Dictionary
  18. dexter: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. dexter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dexter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. dexter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. dexter-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dexter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. dexter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. DEXTER, DEXTER, DEXTER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dexter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Dexter)

adjective:  (archaic outside heraldry) Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)
noun:  (archaic outside heraldry) The right side (of a building, an equation, a heraldic shield [from the wearer's perspective], etc).
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a female dyer.
noun:  Any of a number of places in the United States and Canada, named for persons with the surname.
noun:  A town in Chaves County, New Mexico, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Lane County, Oregon, United States.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  One of a breed of small hardy cattle originating from the Kerry breed of Ireland, valuable for beef and milk. They are usually chiefly black, sometimes red, and somewhat resemble a small shorthorn in build.

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