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 22 of 44: from “knock up” to “loc”.
- knock up verb To exhaust; wear out; tire out; to fatigue until unable to do more.
- knocker noun A person who is strikingly handsome or otherwise admirable; a stunner.
- kobza noun Synonym of bandura.
- kodak noun A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
- kola noun Alternative form of cola (“drink made with kola nut flavoring”).
- kreese noun Dated form of kris.
- Ku Klux verb To lynch (a person) as part of Ku Klux Klan activities.
- kubisagari noun A chronic endemic disease of Japan, characterized by dimness of vision, diplopia, ptosis, and paralysis of certain muscles.
- Kyrenæan adj Dated form of Cyrenian.
- labourage noun The loading or unloading of a ship's cargo.
- lactory noun A place where milking (especially of cows) occurs.
- lady fly noun Synonym of ladybird
- lag off verb To arrest; to take to prison.
- lair up verb To cover a pack with a manta in preparation for travel.
- lam verb To flee or run away.
- lam into verb To run into (someone); to have a chance encounter with (someone).
- lam out verb Leave, depart; to run away from someone or something.
- lambaste verb To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
- Lambert pine noun sugar pine, found on the west coast of North America from Baja California to Oregon (Pinus lambertiana).
- lame adj Physically disabled.
- lame duck noun A person who cannot fulfill their contracts.
- lamellose adj Composed of, or having, lamellae
- land verb To alight, to descend from a vehicle.
- landed immigrant noun A person who is not a citizen of Canada but who has been legally admitted to Canada as a permanent resident.
- lanthanide noun Any of the 14 rare earth elements from cerium to lutetium (lanthanum having been excluded because it was thought to be a d-block element in…
- lapheld adj Held on one's lap; being a laptop computer.
- Lapp noun An indigenous person from Lapland. One of the Sami people.
- larding needle noun Dated form of larding needle.
- late adj Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
- lateral area noun A particular part of the medulla oblongata.
- laughing gas noun Dated form of laughing gas.
- laundry stove noun A type of stove designed for the heating of flat-irons and polishing irons, consisting of a cone-shaped top, and used to do laundry.
- laureate noun One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
- lavatory adj Washing, or cleansing by washing.
- law intj An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord.
- law and order noun The principles under which the world and its components operate.
- law unto oneself noun One who is lawful in the absence of an enforced law; one who behaves with integrity.
- lawner noun The sport of lawn tennis.
- laws noun A minced oath for Lord.
- laxator noun A muscle whose contraction loosens some part. Modern anatomy general defines this as a group of tendons.
- lay down verb To kill (someone).
- lay down the law verb To present the law that applies to a given case.
- lay out noun Dated form of layout.
- leader noun An intertitle.
- learner noun A scholar.
- leather noun The skin.
- leave noun Permission.
- leave someone in the dust verb To abandon; to leave behind.
- lecturer noun A member of the Church of England clergy whose main task was to deliver sermons (lectures) in the afternoons and evenings.
- leech noun A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
- legion noun A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects…
- lemon noun A piece of fanfiction involving explicit sex.
- lemur noun Any of the genus Lemur, represented by the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).
- Lenard ray noun One of the rays that emanate from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, such as aluminium, which…
- leprosy noun Similar contagious skin diseases causing light patches of scaly skin, particularly psoriasis, syphilis, vitiligo, scabies, and (biblical)…
- leptocardian adj Of or relating to the Leptocardii (formerly Leptocardia).
- lessoner noun A teacher.
- let alone verb To rely on (a person) to do something.
- let go by the run verb To loosen and let run freely (lines)
- let out verb To lay off or fire someone (from a job).
- letter noun A single type; type, collectively; a style of type.
- letter of comment noun Correspondence, usually a letter, sent to a periodical commenting on either the contents of a previous issue or an earlier letter of…
- letterhack noun A fan who is a prolific writer of letters to periodicals.
- lettermarking noun A system of grading student's work using letters (e.g. A, B, C, D, F), as opposed to another system such as "pass/fail" or numerical grades.
- letting noun The award of a public contract
- Lettish adj Of or pertaining to the Latvian people or the Latvian language.
- leukosis noun Synonym of leukocytosis.
- LGBO adj Being a sexual minority, or related to sexual minorities as a class of people.
- liassic adj Of or relating to the Lias or its fossils.
- liberal noun A Whig.
- Liberal Zionism noun Synonym of General Zionism.
- lick verb To beat with repeated blows.
- lie by verb To rest from labour; to take a break.
- life preserver noun A short club with a weighted end.
- life-lease noun A lifetime appointment, a condition that exists or service that is provided for the duration of an individual's lifetime or for the…
- light adj Easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile.
- light in the loafers adj Crazy or eccentric.
- lighter screw noun A screw for adjusting the distance between the stones in a grinding mill by raising or lowering the bridgetree.
- lighting noun The process of annealing metals.
- like fun prep_phrase Intensely.
- lime-juicer noun An English or British sailor or ship.
- limehouse verb To make a fiery political speech.
- limey noun An English or British ship.
- line verb To read or repeat line by line.
- linesman noun A male line judge.
- lingerie noun Linen goods collectively.
- linguicist noun One who studies language; a linguist.
- link motion noun A valve gear consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar (the link) in…
- lion hunter noun One who runs after celebrities with foolish adulation, or seeking reflected glory from their company.
- listen in verb To listen to a radio broadcast.
- lithontriptic adj lithotriptic
- lithophone noun A device by which the presence of bladder stones can be audibly detected.
- little guy noun A Vietnamese man, particularly in the Vietnam War.
- little people noun The Vietnamese, particularly in the Vietnam War.
- little swimmer noun A phalarope.
- live adj Energetic, attentive, active.
- loading bank noun A platform, often with a ramp at one or both ends, provided in a railway goods yard for the purpose of loading and unloading goods wagons.
- lobcock noun A large, flaccid penis.
- lobeliaceous adj Of or pertaining to the former plant family Lobeliaceae (now subfamily Lobelioideae in family Campanulaceae), including the lobelia.
- loc noun Correspondence, usually a letter, sent to a periodical commenting on either the contents of a previous issue or an earlier letter of…