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 7 of 56: from “blow out” to “bruit”.
- blow out verb To talk violently or abusively.
- blubber adj Especially of lips: protruding, swollen.
- blue adj Severe or overly strict in morals; gloomy.
- blue ruin noun Low-end gin, usually home-made.
- bluette noun A kind of satinette pigeon.
- blunt noun Money.
- board verb To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
- boardsman noun One who prepares wigs or artificial hair.
- bobbery pack noun A pack of hunting dogs of different or mixed breeds.
- bode verb To declare (something, such as a future event) before it occurs; to foretell, to predict; specifically, to predict (something undesirable)…
- bodice noun Particularly a corset or other undershirt stiffened with whalebone.
- body noun The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
- body politic noun A corporation.
- bogey noun The Devil.
- bogus noun Counterfeit money.
- bohemian noun A Gypsy, a Romani.
- boil noun A bubbling.
- bomb noun A grenade, mortar shell, or artillery shell.
- bombast noun Cotton, or cotton wool.
- bombastic adj Inflated, overfilled.
- boo verb To make a sound characteristic of cattle; to moo.
- book-bearer noun A theatrical prompter.
- boon adj Kind; bountiful; benign.
- boorjoy adj Bourgeois.
- boot noun A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.
- boothman noun A corn merchant, especially one in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
- bootlessness noun The quality of being unavailing or unprofitable.
- booze noun A session of drinking alcohol; a drinking party.
- borest verb second-person singular simple present indicative of bore
- borrow noun A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.
- bosh noun A figure.
- bosk noun A thicket; a small wood.
- bosset noun A pedicle (attachment point for antlers in cervids)
- botch noun One who makes a mess of something.
- bottle-nose noun An eruption on the nose such as is produced by excessive consumption of alcohol.
- bottlehead noun The bottlenose whale
- botty adj Conceited, swaggering.
- boulter noun A long, stout fishing line with many hooks attached.
- bounce noun A bang, boom.
- bouncer noun A boaster; a bully.
- bounden verb past participle of bind.
- boundest verb second-person singular simple present indicative of bound
- bourdon noun The burden or bass of a melody.
- bourne noun A boundary; a limit.
- bowel verb To disembowel.
- bowery noun In the early settlements of New York State, USA, a farm or estate.
- bowse verb To drink excessively and socially; to carouse.
- bowyer noun A person who uses the bow, an archer.
- brach noun Originally, a synonym of scent hound (“a hunting dog that tracks prey using its sense of smell rather than by its vision”); later, any…
- brag adj Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited.
- Brahmani noun Archaic form of Brahmini.
- braid verb To start into motion.
- branchwork noun Collectively, the branches of a tree.
- brand noun A piece of burning wood or peat, or a glowing cinder.
- branding iron noun Synonym of brandise (“stand for a pot or pan over a fire”).
- brandywine noun Brandy.
- brangle noun A squabble.
- braving adj Daring; defiant.
- bray verb To crush or pound, especially using a pestle and mortar.
- brazen adj Made of brass.
- braziletto noun The brazilwood tree.
- breach noun A bruise; a wound.
- bread and butter intj A general saying used to ward off bad luck
- bread and cheese noun A cheese sandwich.
- bread meal noun Any type of meal or grain that is suitable for preparing bread: in modern terms, synonym of bread flour.
- break verb To fall out; to terminate friendship.
- break with verb To divulge one's secrets, thoughts, or intentions to; to discuss something with.
- breathe verb To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.
- breathing noun Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
- breech noun The buttocks or backside.
- brethren noun plural of brother
- brett noun A britchka; a kind of horse-drawn carriage.
- brewster noun A female brewer.
- bricole noun an indirect action or stroke.
- bridal noun A wedding feast or festival; a wedding.
- bride-ale noun A rustic wedding feast
- bridewain noun A cart or waggon, loaded with household goods, conveyed from a bride's house to her new home; (by extension) the bridal gifts transported…
- bright noun Brightness, glow.
- brim adj Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”).
- brimstone noun Sulfur.
- brinded adj Especially of the fur or skin of animals: having a patchy or streaky pattern, usually brown or grey in colour; brindled.
- bring off verb To rescue; to liberate.
- briny adj Especially of the sea: phosphorescent, shining.
- brisk adj Sparkling; fizzy.
- bristle verb To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- Britain noun An ancient Briton.
- broad noun A playing card.
- broadbrim noun A quiet, sedate, respectable old man.
- broadcast adv By having its seeds sown over a wide area.
- brock noun A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
- broderick noun A thorough beating
- broil noun A brawl; a rowdy disturbance.
- broiler noun One who engages in or promotes noisy quarrels, or broils.
- broke adj Broken.
- brother-german noun A full brother: a brother born to the same mother and father, as distinguished from half brothers (uterine brothers), step-brothers, or…
- brown noun A copper coin.
- brownwort noun A figwort of the species Scrophularia vernalis or (possibly) of certain other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with…
- browse verb To feed on, as pasture; to pasture on; to graze.
- browsy adj Of an animal: having shaggy or bushy fur or hair.
- bruit noun Hearsay, rumour; talk; (countable) an instance of this.