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 9 of 44: from “Colored People's Time” to “couple”.
- Colored People's Time noun A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes…
- Columbian noun An American, a person from the United States of America.
- Columbus verb To explore; to go around exploring, to go around as an explorer.
- combining weight noun The proportional weight, usually referred to hydrogen as a standard, and for each element a fixed multiple of the atomic weight, by which…
- combustible adj Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible.
- come intj An exclamation to express annoyance.
- come off verb To have an orgasm.
- come out verb To make a formal debut in society.
- come over verb To deceive or get the better of; overreach.
- come the acid verb To make oneself unpleasant, especially by sarcasm.
- come to time verb To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and time is called.
- comedian noun A person who performs in theatrical plays.
- comforter noun A woollen scarf for winter.
- commence verb To take a degree at a university.
- commend verb To adorn; to set off.
- commentable adj Worthy of comment; remarkable.
- commerce destroyer noun A fast, unarmoured, lightly armed naval vessel designed to capture or destroy the enemy's merchant ships.
- commodity meat noun Meat distributed through the USDA commodity food distribution program.
- common sense noun Dated form of common sense.
- commorancy noun A house for a place of residence, usually a temporary one.
- companion noun A person employed to accompany or travel with another.
- compass verb To accomplish; to reach; to achieve; to obtain.
- compassing noun The forming of plots or schemes; machination.
- competence noun A sustainable income.
- complementoid noun An immunological complement that has lost its zymotoxic group, but which still has a receptor site for the hemolysin.
- complexus noun A complex, an aggregate of parts
- compose verb To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.
- compot noun Dated form of compote (“the spreadable food”).
- compound noun A substance made from any combination of ingredients.
- computed axial tomography noun Computed tomography in the axial plane (which was the original type). Sometimes referred to as “computerized axial tomography”.
- computer paper noun Continuous form paper; sheets of paper connected together with perforation in order to feed through a dot-matrix printer.
- comshaw noun A bribe or gratuity for a service or for arranging a deal; squeeze.
- concentre verb To come together at a common centre.
- conch noun A British Bahamian.
- concreter noun A device for concentrating sugar syrup by boiling
- confection noun An artistic, musical, or literary work taken as frivolous, amusing, or contrived; a composition of a light nature.
- confectionary noun Dated form of confectionery (“a confectioner's shop”).
- confide verb To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
- confidence noun Boldness; presumption.
- confidential adj Inclined to share confidences; (of things) making people inclined to share confidences; involving the sharing of confidences.
- confinement noun Lying-in, time of giving birth.
- confound verb To damn (a mild oath).
- confoundedly adv Used as a mild oath: damnably.
- confuse verb To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
- congress noun Coitus: sexual intercourse.
- conk noun A hairstyle involving the chemical straightening and styling of kinky hair.
- connexive adj connective
- conquer verb To gain, win, or obtain by effort.
- conservate verb To conserve.
- consolette noun A small console (especially, one integrated with home entertainment equipment, such as a TV or stereo), that usually stands on splayed legs.
- constable verb To act as a constable or policeman.
- constitution noun The general health of a person.
- consumedly adv deucedly; extremely
- consumption noun Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
- contactee noun A person who has been contacted by alien beings from outer space.
- contemn verb To disdain; to value at little or nothing; to treat or regard with contempt.
- contemporary noun A rival newspaper or magazine.
- continuation school noun A school offering additional education to young people who have previously left school in order to work.
- continued adj Prolonged; unstopped.
- conversative adj Relating to conversation with others; social.
- convertible noun Interchangeable things or terms.
- convey verb To take or carry (someone) from one place to another.
- conyo boy noun A Spanish mestizo.
- conyo girl noun A Spanish mestiza.
- cookie noun An attractive young woman.
- cookie pusher noun A waitress.
- cookies noun plural of cooky
- cool verb To kill, murder.
- coolness noun Conflict or hostility or an instance of such that stands in contrast to expected friendliness or interest.
- coon noun A sly fellow.
- cootie noun A louse (Pediculus humanus).
- cop verb To capture or arrest someone.
- cop out verb To remove from a situation or crowd, such as for arrest or punishment.
- copper verb To give copper coins to (someone); to pay.
- copygraph noun An early means of producing multiple copies of a document by means of pressing it against a slab of gelatin softened with glycerin and…
- copyholder noun A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
- cord noun Dated form of chord.
- corflu noun Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
- Corinthian spirit noun Amateurism, originally in yachting.
- corn-cracker noun A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
- corner up verb To form one or more corners.
- cornet noun An ice cream cone (the unit comprising the shell and the ice cream).
- cornhole noun A small room connected to a threshing floor.
- corporation noun A protruding belly.
- corporealism noun Materialism.
- corpuscularian noun An adherent of the corpuscular theory of chemistry.
- corroborative noun a medical tonic; a corroborant
- cosh noun The cane.
- cosmic adj Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.
- cosmical adj Rising or setting with the sun; not acronycal.
- cosmopolitan noun A butterfly of species Vanessa cardui.
- cosmopolite noun The butterfly painted lady (Vanessa cardui).
- cosmorama noun An exhibition of perspective images of different places in the world, using various optical effects.
- cot noun vulva; vagina.
- cotylosaur noun A member of the Cotylosauria, a synonym of the family †Captorhinidae, the earliest group of true reptiles from the Carboniferous through…
- cotype noun A syntype or paratype.
- coulombic adj electric
- councilloress noun A female councillor.
- counting room noun A countinghouse.
- couple verb To join in wedlock; to marry.