Definition of "deiseal" []

• Motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun; a turning in this direction. (noun)
• Righthandwise; clockwise; sunwise. (adverb)
• A deprecation meaning May it go right, said to someone who sneezes or swallows something awry. (interjection)

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• "Round every house the hide-clad man used to run thrice deiseal, that is, according to the course of the sun, so as to keep the house on his right hand; while the others pursued him, beating the hide with their staves and thereby making a loud noise like the beating of a drum."
• "Scotland invariably went _deiseal_, or to the right, at every meeting of importance."
• "The disorderly procession went three times _deiseal_ (according to the course of the sun) round each house in the village, striking the walls and shouting on coming to a door a rhyme demanding admission."