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 3 of 44: from “autoplasty” to “bed”.
- autoplasty noun The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency…
- autosled noun A motorized sled.
- autotype noun A copy or facsimile.
- availing noun Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use
- average noun Proportional or equitable distribution of financial expense.
- awebound adj Feeling paralyzed, restrained, or deeply held in check by a profound sense of awe, reverence, or dread.
- awesome sauce noun The essence of awesomeness; excellence.
- awful adj Causing fear or horror; appalling, terrible.
- awheel adv Riding a bicycle.
- axipetal adj Seeking the axon
- ayy lmao phrase Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ayy, LMAO.
- azoic adj Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life.
- babbitt noun A person who subscribes complacently to materialistic middle-class ideals.
- babbler noun A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.
- baby vamp noun An attractive and popular young woman.
- baby-killer noun A Vietnam War veteran.
- back time adj Pertaining to payment, rent, taxes, etc. meant to cover a past period of time.
- back-seat driver noun An occupant of a large vehicle, such as a firetruck, who helps steer the vehicle from far in the back.
- backcomb noun A decorative comb worn as an ornament and to secure a hairstyle.
- backshot noun An act of anal sex.
- backstop noun The longstop.
- backsword noun A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.
- backward verb To keep back, to delay, to retard.
- backwrap noun A word wrap feature that restores a word to the preceding line when space is made for it by deletion.
- bacteria noun An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.
- bacteroid noun A micro-organism such as a bacterium or yeast.
- bad blood noun An inherited immoral or disturbed nature.
- badian noun Star anise.
- badigeon noun A cement or paste (often made with plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors and builders to fill holes…
- bag of tricks noun A collection of items, especially as constituting a very complete set of such items.
- bagman noun A staff assistant to a senior police officer such as a detective sergeant for a detective inspector.
- bailer noun A delivery that heads towards the bails after pitching.
- baity adj Angry, bad-tempered.
- baize noun A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors.
- baking powder noun Dated form of baking powder.
- baking tray noun Dated form of baking tray.
- ball off verb To depart, especially quickly; to hurry away; to leave at a particular speed.
- ball up verb To become confused or discombobulated; to confuse (someone).
- balloon juice noun Any of various beverages, usually including gas dissolved in liquid.
- bally adj Bloody (used as a mild intensifier).
- banana oil noun Nonsense.
- bandit noun Synonym of arse bandit.
- bandoline noun A glutinous pomatum for the hair.
- bang verb To depress the prices in (a market).
- banging adj Huge; great in size.
- banquette noun A bench or similar seat on top of a diligence or other public vehicle.
- banyan noun A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.
- banyan day noun In British naval tradition, a day of the week when galley kitchens served no meat on board ship.
- bar up verb To imprison (someone); to chain up (someone).
- barbaresque adj having a barbaric form or style
- barbecue noun A hog, ox, or other large animal roasted or broiled whole for a feast.
- bareback adj Without a shirt; shirtless.
- barge noun A large bus used for excursions.
- baria noun baryta
- barker noun A pistol.
- barking iron noun A pistol.
- Barkis is willin' phrase Somebody has a sweetheart they wish to marry.
- baron and femme noun Man and wife.
- barrow boy noun A boy or man who sells goods, especially fruits or vegetables, from a barrow; a costermonger.
- barytone adj Dated form of baritone.
- base noun Dated form of bass.
- base ball noun Dated form of baseball (ball game).
- baseball plant noun A baseball field.
- bastard noun A person who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
- bastardess noun A woman who was born out of wedlock, and hence often considered an illegitimate descendant.
- bastardry noun The state of being a bastard (illegitimate child).
- basyle noun A positive or non-acid constituent of a compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.
- bat noun A spree; a jollification; a binge, jag.
- batchy noun An unmarried man, a bachelor; a roommate who is a fellow bachelor.
- bath room noun Dated form of bathroom in its various senses.
- bathing cap noun Dated form of bathing cap.
- bathing costume noun The clothes that one wears when bathing in the sea or a swimming pool, especially the one-piece garment worn by women and girls.
- bathing suit noun Dated form of bathing suit.
- batmobile verb To put up an emotional or intellectual shield, especially to protect oneself from something that makes one uncomfortable.
- batrachoid adj Frog-like; batrachian.
- batta noun An exchange rate.
- battering noun Domestic violence
- battler noun An itinerant worker or unemployed person.
- bayadere noun A female dancer.
- bazoo noun A simple wind instrument, such as a kazoo or tin horn.
- be kind, rewind phrase A friendly reminder for a customer who is renting a VHS videotape to rewind it for the next customer.
- bead noun A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as of…
- bead proof noun A certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different…
- bean-eater noun A Bostonian (a person from Boston, Massachusetts).
- bean-fed adj Physically nourished by a diet containing beans.
- beancake noun A various form of tofu, made from soybeans.
- beaner noun A superior or admirable person; something excellent.
- beanplot noun A specific section of land where beans are grown.
- beard noun That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
- beardism noun The period during which one has a beard.
- bearer noun A domestic servant in charge of household goods and clothing; a valet.
- bearskin noun A coarse, shaggy, woollen cloth for overcoats.
- beastly adv Very much; terribly.
- beat noun An act of reporting news or scientific results before a rival; a scoop.
- beat up verb To disturb; to pay an untimely visit to.
- beaten adj Trite; hackneyed.
- beau noun A man with a reputation for fine dress and etiquette; a dandy or fop.
- beautiful people noun Fashionable, privileged, glamorous people, especially those belonging to international high society; the beau monde.
- bechic adj Relating to, or relieving, a cough.
- bed noun The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.