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 49 of 56: from “superpartient” to “temporize”.
- superpartient adj Being or relating to a ratio where the larger value exceeds the smaller by more than one unit, as in 3 to 5.
- superstition noun Excessive nicety; overscrupulousness.
- superstitious adj Overexact; unnecessarily scrupulous.
- superstruction noun The act of superstructing, or building upon.
- supplicate verb Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to make a formal request (to the…
- support verb To endure without being overcome; bear; undergo; tolerate.
- supportful adj Abounding with support.
- supposititious adj Supposed or hypothetical.
- suppurant noun A suppurative.
- sure adv Without fail, surely.
- surfeit adj Sated; surfeited; filled.
- surplusage noun A surplus; a superabundance.
- survivance noun Survival.
- suspire verb To breathe, especially to exhale
- suther verb To sigh, or moan.
- swaddle verb To beat; cudgel.
- swaddling hypothesis noun A contentious theory, first proposed by Geoffrey Gorer, that purported the tight swaddling of Russian (and Eastern European) infants…
- swagger adj Fashionable; trendy.
- swagman noun A person who sells or trades in trinkets or items of low value.
- swain noun A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.
- swallow noun A deep chasm or abyss in the earth.
- swapping adj large; whopping
- swarth adj swarthy
- swashy adj soft, flabby or squishy
- sweat verb To remove a portion of (a coin), as by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction wears off a small quantity of the metal.
- sweat hole noun An opening in the skin through which sweat is excreted; pore.
- sweater noun One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
- sweet verb To sweeten.
- swerve verb To stray; to wander; to rove.
- sweven noun A dream.
- swim verb To float.
- swing-swang noun A complete oscillation.
- swinge noun A swinging blow.
- swink noun Toil, work, drudgery.
- swisher noun One who flogs or thrashes.
- swive verb To have sex with (someone).
- sympathist noun One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.
- sympathizer noun A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people); a person who enters into the feelings of another.
- symphoric adj Clumsy; accident-prone.
- symposiast noun Someone participating at a banquet or drinking party.
- syntaxis noun Syntax.
- syringa noun Sweet mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius).
- syrtis noun Synonym of quicksand.
- systaltic adj Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation.
- systematic adj Of, relating to, or being a system.
- tabby noun An old maid or gossip.
- table verb To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed.
- tabloid noun A small, compressed portion of a chemical, drug, food substance, etc.; a pill, a tablet.
- tache noun A spot, stain, or blemish.
- tagtail noun A worm with a conspicuously-coloured yellow tail, used as bait, probably a species of lugworm.
- tailrace noun The part of a millrace that carries water away from a water wheel.
- take verb To visit; to include in a course of travel.
- take off verb To swallow.
- take post verb Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, post. To travel (typically rapidly) by posthorse or post chaise; to arrive and…
- take up verb To arrest (a person).
- take up with verb To be contented to receive; to receive without opposition; to put up with
- take water verb To travel in a vessel on a body of water; to embark on a ship.
- talapoin noun A Buddhist monk or priest.
- tale noun A number of things considered as an aggregate; sum.
- taler noun A talker; a teller
- tall adj Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.
- tally noun One thing made to suit another; a counterpart or match.
- tally on verb To man a rope for hauling, the men standing in a line or tail
- tallyman noun A man who cohabits (with someone) outside of marriage.
- tallywag noun A testicle.
- tallywoman noun A woman who cohabits (with someone) outside of marriage.
- tampicin noun A resin from Ipomoea simulans, found in Tampico jalap, laxative in small doses, purgative in large ones.
- tanglefoot noun Low-quality whiskey, especially home-brewed.
- tarantula killer noun Any species of tarantula hawk, especially (Pepsis grossa) that captures the Texas brown tarantula (Aphonopelma hentzii) and places it in…
- targe noun A small shield.
- tarmacadam noun A mixture of tar and small stones used in paving.
- tarnation noun The act or process of damnation or reprobation; hell.
- tarpaulin noun Canvas waterproofed with tar, used as a cover.
- tarrasque noun Archaic form of tarasque.
- tarse noun The penis.
- Tartarian noun A Tartar.
- tat noun A pony.
- tath noun The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
- tauromachian adj Of or pertaining to bullfighting.
- Tayabeño noun A person from Quezon and Aurora provinces.
- Tayabense noun A native or inhabitant of Quezon.
- teagle noun A hoisting apparatus such as an elevator, crane, or lift.
- teasel verb To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card.
- teaseling noun The cutting and gathering of teasels.
- technology noun A discourse or treatise on the arts.
- teem verb To empty.
- teen noun Grief; sorrow; trouble.
- telephone noun Short for telephone call (“a connection established over a telephone network; a conversation held by the parties on this connection”).
- teletherapy noun A (nonscientific or pseudoscientific) form of (alleged) medical therapy involving telepathy; also (archaically) called the absent treatment.
- televisor noun One who works in the television industry, e.g., a presenter, broadcaster, or telecaster.
- tell noun That which is told; a tale or account.
- tell noses verb Synonym of count noses (“to count people one at a time; to determine the number of supporters of a particular politician or issue”).
- telling noun Counting, numbering.
- telodynamic adj Relating to a system for transmitting power by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter. With this…
- temerary adj Rash, reckless
- temper verb To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
- temperant noun A drug that allays a fever.
- temperature noun The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament.
- Templarism noun The ideology or practice of the original Knights Templar.
- temporize verb To comply with the occasion or time; to humour, or yield to, current circumstances or opinion; also, to trim (“fluctuate between parties…