This page gathers the 10,476 dictionary entries of which at least one sense is labelled “Obsolete” by Wiktionary. The definition shown is that sense; each word leads to its full entry. Page 103 of 105: from “wax wode” to “whiting-mop”.
- wax wode verb To be alienated from somebody; be overcome with repugnance for.
- waxing kernel noun A small tumour formed by the enlargement of the lymphatic glands, especially in the groins of children.
- waxy noun A cobbler (shoe repairer).
- way verb To travel.
- wayment verb To lament.
- weak-handed adj Understaffed
- weal noun Wealth, riches.
- wealful adj Successful; prosperous.
- wealth noun Prosperity; well-being; happiness.
- wean verb To raise, to help grow toward maturity
- wear and tear noun One's ability to endure harsh conditions; resilience, toughness.
- wearish adj Tasteless, having a sickly flavour; insipid.
- weather noun A storm; a tempest.
- weather gauge noun An advantageous position of one sailing vessel with respect to another, because of the direction of the prevailing wind, that allows it to…
- weathering noun Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
- web verb To weave.
- wedge noun An ingot.
- wedlock noun A wife; a married woman.
- wee pron obsolete emphatic of we
- weed noun Underbrush; low shrubs.
- weel noun A whirlpool.
- ween noun Doubt; conjecture.
- weep verb To weep over; to bewail.
- weer adj True; correct.
- weet weet noun The common European sandpiper.
- weetless adj Meaningless.
- weigh verb To judge; to estimate.
- weir noun Seaweed.
- weird noun A spell or charm.
- weld verb To wield.
- welk verb Of a plant: to wither, wilt, decay.
- well-favouredly adv Beautifully, handsomely; attractively, gracefully.
- well-handed adj Well-supplied with slaves.
- well-wisher noun Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something.
- wellsite noun A supposed mineral, later reclassified as a mixture of phillipsite with harmotome.
- welly adv Almost; nearly.
- welsh adj Foreign.
- Welsh bean noun A French bean.
- welt verb To roll; revolve.
- wend noun A large extent of ground; a perambulation; a circuit
- wer noun A fine for slaying a man; wergeld.
- West India tea noun A shrubby plant (Capraria biflora) having oblanceolate toothed leaves sometimes used in the West Indies as a substitute for tea.
- westy adj Waste; desert.
- wet adj Of a Quaker: liberal with respect to religious observance.
- whack noun A whack-up: a division of an amount into separate whacks, a divvying up.
- whangdoodle noun A term of disparagement.
- whap noun The curlew, Numenius arquata; a whaup.
- wharf noun Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.
- what noun Something; thing; stuff.
- wheal-worm noun A mite of species Acarus autumnalis, synonym of Neotrombicula autumnalis
- wheat-eddish noun A field of second-growth wheat or stubble after the maincrop has been harvested.
- wheel noun A rolling or revolving body; anything of a circular form; a disk; an orb.
- wheeler noun A wheelwright, a wheelmaker.
- wheelhorse noun A foot-propelled vehicle; a bicycle.
- whelm verb To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it.
- whelp noun A kind of ship.
- when intj Expressing impatience.
- whenabout adv Approximately in time.
- whereas adv Where (that).
- whereby adv By what, in which direction; how.
- wherethrough adv By means of which; whereby.
- whereto adv To what end; wherefore?
- wherret verb To hurry; to trouble; to tease.
- whet verb To encourage (someone) to do something; to incite, to urge.
- whether det Which of two.
- whethersoever adv In or to whatever place; anywhere; whithersoever.
- whid noun A lie; a falsehood.
- whiddle verb To shine.
- whiff verb To consume (an alcoholic beverage).
- whiff-whaff noun Nonsense, words or deeds of little import.
- whiffle noun Something small or insignificant; a trifle.
- whiffler noun One who whiffles, or frequently changes their course or opinion.
- whifflery noun The behaviour of a whiffler (one who frequently changes course or opinion, or one who argues evasively).
- whig noun Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
- whilom adv At times, on occasion, sometimes.
- whim-wham noun A whimsical object; a trinket.
- whimling noun Someone given to whims, a whimsical person
- whinger noun A whinyard.
- whip the cat verb To practice extreme parsimony.
- whirret noun A blow; the act of striking.
- whirry noun A sudden or quick movement; a whirr.
- whish adj Silent.
- whisk noun The card game whist.
- whisper verb To address in a whisper, or low voice.
- whistler noun The keeper of a whistling shop, or shebeen.
- whistly adv silently
- whistness noun Silence.
- white adj Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
- white gold noun Platinum.
- white lead noun Tin, golden marcasite.
- white nebula noun a nebula that appears white in colouration through a high-powered telescope (nebulae often appear to have some hint of colour through a…
- white out verb To space out a composition for printing.
- white precipitate noun A heavy white amorphous powder (NH₂.HgCl) obtained by adding ammonia to a solution of mercuric chloride or corrosive sublimate…
- White Russian adj Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia", or its language.
- white snow noun Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms.
- white wine noun Gin.
- white-ear noun A bird, the wheatear
- white-rumped shrike noun The prairie loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus excubitorides)
- whitewash noun Any of several medicinal preparations for treating skin diseases consisting of a mixture of a metallic compound (such as one of lead…
- whiting-mop noun A young whiting.