This page gathers the 5,602 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Archaic” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 21 of 56: from “gauntlet” to “goose”.
- gauntlet noun Two parallel rows of attackers who strike at a criminal as punishment.
- gavel noun A gable.
- gawby noun A baby.
- gaze noun The object gazed on.
- gazetteer noun A person who writes for a gazette or newspaper; a journalist; (specifically) a journalist engaged by a government.
- gear noun Stuff.
- geck noun Fool; idiot; imbecile.
- geezer noun Wife; old woman.
- gegg noun A trick or hoax.
- gegger noun One who tricks someone else.
- gelatoid noun Any albuminoid that can be dissolved in boiling water, producing a solution that gelatinizes on cooling.
- geld noun A payment.
- gelosis noun A hardening or stiffness of tissue, especially in a muscle.
- gemel noun A twin (also attributively).
- gemmule noun Synonym of gemma (“an asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts…
- gender verb To engender.
- general noun A general fact or proposition; a generality.
- generosity noun Good breeding; nobility of stock.
- genial adj Pertaining to marriage; nuptial.
- genitive adj Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.
- gentle noun A person of high birth.
- gentle craft noun Shoemaking or cobbling; the trade of a shoemaker or cobbler.
- gentle nor simple adj Of any social standing.
- gentle or simple adj Of any social standing.
- gentle-hearted adj Refined and cultivated, high-born
- gentle-heartedness noun Refinement; high-born graciousness.
- gentrice noun The state or quality of being high-born; gentility.
- genuflect verb To bend the knee, as in servitude.
- geography noun An atlas or gazetteer.
- George noun A coin bearing King George's profile.
- gest noun A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
- gestatory adj gestational (pertaining to gestation or pregnancy)
- get verb To beget (of a father).
- get on verb To place a bet on.
- geyser noun An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
- ghastful adj Causing fear; terrifying.
- ghost noun A spirit; a human soul.
- ghostly adj Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual.
- giddy noun Someone or something that is frivolous or impulsive.
- gig noun A person with an odd appearance; also, a foolish person.
- gig-lamp noun Either of the lamps on either side of a gig carriage; a headlamp.
- gill noun A measuring jug holding a quarter or half a pint.
- gim adj Neat; spruce.
- gin verb To begin.
- gingham noun An umbrella.
- girk verb To jerk, yerk.
- girlish adj Of or relating to girlhood.
- give back verb To recede; to retreat.
- give over verb To give up, hand over, surrender (something).
- give the go-by verb To leave behind, outdistance.
- gizzing verb Grinning and laughing at someone.
- glad verb To make glad.
- gladden verb To become more glad in one's disposition.
- glaive noun A sword, particularly a broadsword.
- glamorous adj Being associated with one or more glamours.
- Glasgovian noun Synonym of Glaswegian.
- glass verb To reflect; to mirror.
- glasspaper noun sandpaper.
- gleg noun A look or glance.
- glib adj Smooth or slippery.
- gliff noun A quick glance.
- glim noun A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
- glimpse noun A brief, sudden flash of light; a glimmer.
- glint adj Not sharp; dull.
- glister verb To gleam, glisten, or coruscate.
- glitten verb to glisten, to reflect, to shimmer.
- globulism noun The practice of homeopathy.
- globulist noun A practitioner of homeopathy.
- glomerate adj Gathered together in a somewhat spherical mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.
- glond noun awlwort
- glop verb To stare in amazement.
- glore verb To gaze intently, stare.
- glorious adj Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.
- glory verb To shine radiantly.
- glover's suture noun A kind of running suture, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.
- glow verb To emit (flame).
- glump verb To be glum; to sulk.
- glutton verb To glut; to satisfy (especially an appetite) by filling to capacity.
- gnathic index noun In a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from…
- gnostic adj knowing; wise; shrewd
- go noun A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
- go off verb To get married.
- go spare verb To be unemployed.
- go to verb To get to work; (imperatively) come on.
- go to pot verb Go to hell; an angry dismissal.
- gob stick noun A spoon.
- godsend noun The wreck of a ship which has washed up on shore, from which cargo, timber, etc., may be obtained.
- Godspeed noun Chiefly in in the Godspeed of: the most important part of something, or point at which something happens; also, the last minute or last…
- golden apple noun Synonym of tomato.
- gombeen noun Usury.
- gone adj Ago (used post-positionally).
- gonimous adj Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
- good adj Of high rank or birth.
- good liking noun Approval, support or approbation for something.
- good morrow intj Good morning.
- good-for-naught adj Synonym of good-for-nothing.
- goodlihead noun Goodly appearance or looks; beauty.
- goodman noun A familiar appellation of civility for a man.
- gooey adj Distasteful, unpleasant.
- goose noun A tailor's iron, heated in live coals or embers, used to press fabrics.