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 12 of 105: from “bottle-o” to “brown George”.
- bottle-o noun A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
- bottlo noun A door-to-door trader in used bottles.
- bottom verb To wind (like a ball of thread etc.).
- bouget noun Obsolete form of budget (“purse, bag; etc”).
- bough noun A gallows.
- bought noun A bend; flexure; curve; a hollow angle.
- bouk noun The belly.
- boun adj Ready, prepared.
- bounceable adj Boastful.
- bouncer noun Short for shop-bouncer
- bouncing adj Excessively big; whopping.
- bouncingly adv In a bragging or boastful manner.
- bound adj Ready, prepared.
- bounden adj Bound.
- bounder noun A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet.
- bouse noun to drink, especially alcoholic drink
- bowel noun offspring
- bowels noun The body as the source of offspring.
- bower verb To lodge.
- box money noun Money that is paid by the player to the keeper of the dicebox at each throw.
- box standard noun A hollow tube frame used for a machine.
- boy noun A male of low station, (especially as pejorative) a worthless male, a wretch; a mean and dishonest male, a knave.
- boyism noun boyhood
- brace noun Armor for the arm; vambrace.
- brachydiagonal noun The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.
- brachypinacoid noun A plane of an orthorhombic crystal which is parallel both to the vertical axis and to the shorter lateral (brachydiagonal) axis.
- brack noun Salty or brackish water.
- bracket noun a mark cut into a stone by land surveyors to secure a bench.
- brads noun Money.
- brag adv Proudly; boastfully.
- braid verb To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
- brain noun skull; head
- brain trick noun A stratagem, a clever trick; a ruse.
- brainish adj hot-headed; furious
- brainlet noun The cerebellum.
- brake noun The winch of a crossbow.
- branch out verb To white out or expand the whitespace around the title or other words, lines, etc. in a document.
- brand noun A flame.
- brander verb To cook (meat, etc.) on a gridiron.
- brandiron noun A type of kitchen utensil, especially a gridiron.
- brandreth noun A railing around a well.
- brank noun A sort of bridle with wooden side pieces.
- branlin noun A young salmon (parr), in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.
- brash verb To disturb.
- brass noun Synonym of brace, a traditional unit of measure equivalent to a fathom (6 feet) or about 1.6 m, especially as the Spanish braza and…
- brassish adj brittle
- brat noun A coarse kind of apron for keeping the clothes clean; a bib.
- bravado verb To swagger; to brag.
- brave adj Having any sort of superiority or excellence.
- brawl verb To move to and fro, to quiver, to shake.
- braze verb To burn or temper in fire.
- brazil noun A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.
- bread noun Breadth.
- bread and cheese noun A plain, simple or reduced diet or way of living; simple living with the most basic of necessities.
- breaded adj braided
- break verb To fail in business; to go broke, to become bankrupt.
- break out verb To remove snow from a road or sidewalk.
- breakdown noun An act of a structure or other thing breaking and collapsing.
- breast noun The power of singing; a musical voice.
- breath noun Fragrance; exhalation; odor; perfume.
- breathful adj Full of odour; fragrant.
- brede noun Ornamental embroidery.
- bree noun The eyelid.
- breech verb To cover as if with breeches.
- breed verb To be formed in the parent or dam; to be generated or to grow, like young before birth.
- bren verb To burn (to set ablaze).
- breviary noun A brief statement or summary.
- breviate verb To abbreviate, shorten.
- brew verb To boil or seethe; to cook.
- bridalty noun A wedding.
- bride verb to make a bride of
- bridge-ward noun A warden or guard for a bridge.
- brief adv Briefly.
- brigue noun Intrigue; secretive machinations.
- brim noun The surface of the ground.
- brimstone noun A whore.
- bring off verb To prove; to demonstrate; to show clearly.
- bring up verb To level type or make it ready for printing by overlaying it.
- briny adj Especially of the sea: phosphorescent, shining.
- bristle verb To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- bristler noun A conman.
- Britain adj Briton; British.
- British noun Synonym of Welsh: the Welsh people.
- Brittains noun genitive of Brittain
- brittle verb To gut.
- broad-mouthed adj Outspoken; rude.
- broadcaster noun A person who sows seeds by scattering; also, one who promotes sowing seeds in this manner instead of by drilling (“making holes in the soil…
- broadseal verb To stamp with a broad seal
- brob verb To poke or prick
- brock noun A brocket, a stag between two and three years old.
- brog noun A pointed instrument, such as a joiner's awl.
- broil verb To cook by direct, radiant heat.
- broke noun A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.
- broma noun Aliment; food.
- brome noun bromine
- brook verb To earn; deserve.
- brothel noun A wretch; a depraved or lewd person.
- browless adj Without shame.
- brown adj Gloomy.
- brown George noun A kind of hard biscuit.