This page gathers the 4,340 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Dated” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 18 of 44: from “gweep” to “hit off”.
- gweep verb To work on a minicomputer late at night.
- gymkhana noun A place of public resort for athletic games, etc.
- gynemimesis noun The state of being a transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
- gynemimetic noun A transfeminine individual or trans woman who has not had sex reassignment surgery.
- gypsy noun A person with a dark complexion.
- ha intj A sound of hesitation: er, um.
- ha'p'orth noun A halfpennyworth; the amount that can be bought for a halfpenny.
- habilitate verb To clothe.
- hack noun A computer programmer who makes quick but inelegant changes to computer code to solve problems or add features.
- hacker noun One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
- hackneyed adj Let out for hire.
- haemol noun A dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the colouring matter of the blood, and…
- hail-fellow noun A close acquaintance.
- hale adj Sound, entire, healthy; robust, not impaired.
- half noun A child ticket. Two and a half to Paddington.
- half-breed noun A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis…
- hallo intj A cry of surprise.
- halls noun The music halls; variety theatre.
- haloo verb Dated form of halloo.
- halt noun Lameness; a limp.
- Hamitism noun The quality or state of being Hamitic.
- hand fruit noun Fruit of a suitable variety, and of a good grade of condition, such that it is salable on the basis that it is appealing for immediate…
- hand-me-on noun Dated form of hand-me-down.
- hander noun A blow on the hand as punishment.
- hang one on verb To drink alcohol excessively, to the point of being drunk.
- hang out verb To be unyielding; to hold out.
- happen by verb to come across, to chance upon, to find unexpectedly or accidentally
- happener noun One who participates in a happening.
- hard adj Difficult to resist or control; powerful.
- hard by adv nearby; in close proximity.
- hard lines intj Expressed to someone suffering misfortune.
- hard pass noun A difficult time in one's life, especially one characterized by financial difficulties.
- hard-to-get adj That is aloof, distant, or unapproachable.
- hardly adv Harshly, severely; in a hard manner.
- hardtail noun A mule.
- harlot noun A female prostitute.
- harmonicon noun The harmonica.
- harness noun The complete dress, especially in a military sense, of a man or a horse; armour in general.
- hartshorn noun An aqueous solution of ammonia; smelling salts.
- harvester noun A person who gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).
- hats off intj Used as an instruction for people to remove their hats out of respect, generally towards someone of importance.
- haut gout noun A strong, desirable flavor to be relished; piquancy.
- hautboy noun An oboe or similar treble double reed instrument.
- have at you intj An exclamation indicating that one is about to strike the person addressed, typically with a sword or other hand-held weapon.
- have one's head read verb To have the bumps, indentations, and shape of one's skull examined and interpreted by a phrenologist.
- haven noun A harbour or anchorage protected from the sea.
- headline noun The line at the top of a page containing the folio or number of the page.
- hearing noun A scolding.
- hearse verb To enclose in a hearse; to entomb.
- heartbreaker noun A curl or lovelock.
- heat-ray noun Synonym of calorific ray.
- heater noun A handgun.
- heathendom noun Specifically, the non-Christian world; territories where Christianity is not the dominant religion.
- heaven noun The distant sky in which the sun, moon, and stars appear or move; the firmament; the celestial spheres.
- heavy adj Good.
- heavy man noun A lawbreaker or criminal.
- hebephilia noun A sexual preference for adolescent girls.
- heel out verb To kick a ball backwards.
- heeler noun A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.
- heeltap noun A small amount of (especially alcoholic) drink remaining at the bottom of a glass.
- heft noun The greater part of something; the bulk, the mass.
- heifer dust noun Nonsense; rubbish.
- heliograph verb To photograph by sunlight.
- hempen adj Made of hemp
- hence verb To depart; to go away.
- hep adj Aware, up-to-date.
- hepcat noun A person associated with the jazz subculture of the 1940s and 1950s.
- hepster noun Dated form of hipster (“follower of the latest trends, fashions, styles, such as jazz and Bohemian culture at the time of usage”).
- heptameride noun A seven-unit oligomer.
- herb bennet noun An avens such as wood avens (Geum urbanum) or common avens (Geum aleppicum).
- herbaceous adj Feeding on herbs and soft plants.
- hereafter adv In time to come; in some future time or state.
- heriot noun A tribute.
- hermaphrodite noun A person possessing ambiguous sexual organs or characteristics.
- hermaphroditism noun The condition of intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics or pseudohermaphroditism.
- heroics noun Extravagant phrases; bombast.
- heteroclite adj Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
- heteronym noun Calque.
- heterophile adj Heterosexual.
- hexapod noun An insect.
- high and low noun People of high rank or status.
- high-pitched adj Haughty.
- highball verb To move quickly; to hightail.
- highbinder noun A swindler, especially a corrupt politician.
- highboy noun One who enjoys the high life.
- higher arithmetic noun Number theory; the branch of pure mathematics concerned primarily with integers and integer-valued functions.
- hinderling noun The buttocks; the posterior.
- Hindu noun Any native inhabitant of Hindustan.
- Hindustani adj Any thing related to Mughal Empire.
- hip adj Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy.
- hippic adj Relating to horse racing.
- hipshot adj Clumsy, awkward.
- hipster glasses noun Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.
- his det Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
- hist intj An utterance used to discreetly attract someone's attention.
- histogeny noun Histogenesis.
- histohaematin noun One of a class of respiratory pigments, widely distributed in the animal kingdom, capable of ready oxidation and reduction.
- histozyme noun An enzyme said to occur in the animal body, supposedly responsible for many normal decompositions and synthetic processes. It is possibly…
- hit noun A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
- hit off verb To describe with quick characteristic strokes.