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 8 of 44: from “chin” to “colored”.
- chin verb To talk.
- chin chin intj A salutation, especially a drinking toast.
- chin music noun Idle talk; chatter.
- china noun Cheaper and lower-quality ceramic and ceramic tableware, distinguished from porcelain.
- China girl noun A young woman of Chinese (or other East Asian) descent.
- chinaman noun A Chinese person, or person of Chinese descent.
- chinawoman noun A Chinese woman.
- Chinese adj Having barn doors with a horizontal orientation.
- Chinese boxing noun Synonym of kung fu.
- Chinese home run noun A home run hit to the minimum distance possible, usually just over the outfield fence closest to home plate.
- chink noun Ready money, especially in the form of coins.
- chip noun A sovereign (the coin).
- chip basket noun A small basket consisting of thin, flexible strips or shavings of wood joined together, and designed for collecting or packing fruit.
- chippy adj As dry as a chip of wood.
- chisel verb To barge in on (something); to intrude on (something).
- chit noun A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
- chlamyphore noun A small South American armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncatus and Chlamyphorus retusus, now Calyptophractus retusus), covered with a leathery…
- chokey noun Prison.
- cholecystis noun The gall bladder.
- chook noun A fool.
- chop noun A crack or cleft; a chap.
- chop down verb To attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.
- chore verb To do chores.
- Christ-killer noun One who is considered to have spoken or acted against the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- chrysalism noun A state of transition or development.
- chuck noun Food.
- chuck it verb To run away; scram.
- chuck up verb To chuck up the sponge; to give up; to admit defeat; to break a contract; to abandon or quit (something).
- chucky noun chicken
- chum noun A friend; a pal.
- chummy noun A felt hat with a low crown.
- chump verb Dated form of chomp.
- chur noun An island or shoal in a river.
- c͞i symbol An orthographic ⟨ci⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the consonant /ʃ/, as in the word "delicious".
- cinder noun Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.
- cinematic noun Dated form of kinematic.
- cinematographer noun One who exhibits motion pictures; a projectionist.
- cipher verb To calculate.
- circular noun A sleeveless cloak cut from a circular pattern.
- circumclusion noun An acupressure technique in which the pin is passed beneath the vessel, the wire loop placed over its point, and the ends brought over the…
- circus noun An undertaking or arrangement.
- cirque noun Something in the shape of a circle or ring.
- cisplatin noun A platin, that is, a platinum-based antineoplastic, of which the class cisplatin is the archetypal member.
- clack verb Dated form of cluck.
- clam noun mouth (Now found mostly in the expression shut one's clam)
- clamp noun A heavy footstep; a tramp.
- clamshell noun A person's mouth.
- clap on verb To decide to make a concerted effort to do something; to operate with dedication and vigor.
- classic noun One learned in the literature of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome; a student of classical literature.
- claw off verb To hit or beat up (someone).
- clean coal noun anthracite (a cleaner burning variety of coal, which is usually hard and bluish, with fewer impurities; making it acceptable for uses…
- clean out verb To hit or strike (someone); to beat up.
- cleek verb To strike with the club called a cleek.
- clench verb Dated form of clinch (“make certain, finalize”).
- clerk noun A cleric or clergyman (the legal title for clergy of the Church of England is "Clerk in Holy Orders", still used in legal documents and…
- clever adj Good-natured; obliging.
- click verb To tick.
- clicko adj Extremely good or successful.
- clink verb To rhyme.
- clionid noun Any member of the family Clionaidae of sponges.
- clock verb To make the sound of a hen; to cluck.
- clocker noun A clucking hen.
- close adj Difficult to obtain.
- cloth-eared adj Not hearing clearly.
- clout noun A swaddling cloth, nappy, or loincloth.
- clownism noun Abnormal emotional and grotesque actions.
- club car noun A railroad car that serves in the manner of a club (lounge), offering drinks, snacks, background music, and sometimes meals.
- clubman noun A man who attends a social club.
- clunk noun The sound of liquid coming out of a bottle, etc.; a glucking sound.
- co-ed noun A young woman who attends college.
- coachdog noun The Dalmatian (often used as a coach dog).
- coachee noun A coachman.
- coachy adj Of a horse: more suited to drawing a coach than to racing.
- coal merchant noun A person who deals in coal, either on a large scale or in a particular locality, where coal was weighed and bagged by the merchant…
- coaster noun A prostitute, especially one of European descent, plying her trade in Chinese port towns.
- cob noun A person of mixed black and white ancestry, especially a griffe; a mulatto.
- cobber noun A pal, buddy, mate, friend; often used in direct address by one male to another.
- cock verb To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
- cock on verb To exaggerate; to overcharge.
- cockamamie noun A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface.
- cocker noun One who hunts woodcocks.
- cocket writer noun an official in the bond office whose duties included collecting duty on imported goods and issuing the relevant documentation.
- cocktail noun A mean, half-hearted fellow.
- cocky noun Used as a term of endearment, originally for a person of either sex, but later primarily for a man.
- cocotte noun demimonde, courtesan
- coelenterate noun Any simple aquatic animal formerly considered to belong to the phylum Coelenterata, now divided into the cnidarians and ctenophores.
- coffeeman noun A man who keeps a coffeehouse; the owner of a coffeehouse.
- cognate noun One who is related to another on the female side.
- cohobation noun The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
- coin of the realm noun The legal money of a country.
- cold adv In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
- cold fusion noun Muon-catalyzed fusion
- cold pig noun The act of throwing cold water over a sleeping individual to wake them.
- coldwater flat noun A small, very inexpensive apartment having only the most rudimentary features and lacking a plumbing system to supply hot water.
- collier noun A person in the business or occupation of producing (and selling) charcoal.
- colly noun Alternative spelling of collie.
- colonel noun An informal title used to address an elderly man.
- coloneless noun A female colonel.
- colorcast verb To broadcast television in color.
- colored noun A colored (nonwhite) person.