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 13 of 105: from “brozier” to “by and by”.
- brozier verb To bankrupt.
- bruh noun The rhesus macaque.
- bruit noun A clamour, an outcry; a noise.
- brummagem noun A counterfeit coin.
- brunt verb To make a violent attack or charge.
- brush out verb To clean a form using lye or turpentine.
- brusle verb To cause (something) to bristle or stand erect.
- brusque adj Sour, tart.
- BSO noun Blue stellar object: a radio-quiet quasar.
- bub verb To throw out in bubbles; to bubble.
- bubber noun A person who steals plate from public houses.
- bubble verb To cover or spread with bubbles
- bubbler noun One who cheats.
- Bucephalus noun That which is the greatest of its kind.
- buck noun A fop or dandy.
- buck up verb To hurry up.
- bucket of blood noun Former name of bloody mary (“cocktail”).
- bucket shop noun A stockbroking firm which takes small orders from clients and takes them on its own account rather than actually transmitting them to the…
- buckish adj Like a male goat; foul-smelling or lascivious.
- buckle verb To curl (hair).
- buckler verb To shield; to defend.
- buckshaw noun A kind of fish, possibly the Bombay duck.
- budge adj austere or stiff, like scholastics
- budge barrel noun A small barrel for transporting gunpowder, having a leather hood to prevent the powder from catching fire.
- budget noun A wallet, purse or bag.
- buff noun A strike; a blow.
- buffin noun A sort of coarse material, of unknown manufacture.
- buffle noun A buffalo.
- buffle-headed adj Having a large head, like a buffalo's.
- bufflehead noun One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
- bufonite noun A fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of pycnodonts, whose remains occur in the…
- bug noun A bedbug.
- bugger noun A heretic.
- buggish adj Uppity.
- bugle adj jet-black
- built noun Shape; build; form of structure.
- bulb noun An onion.
- bulimia noun Excessive hunger.
- bulk verb To add bulk to; to bulk out.
- bull noun A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.
- bull ring noun A corral wherein horses are exercised and riders trained.
- bullate noun A kind of metal, bullet-iron.
- bullbeggar noun Something used or suggested to produce terror; a bugbear.
- bullet noun A small ball.
- bullion noun Base or uncurrent coin.
- bullionize verb To make or become noble or of high quality.
- bullpup noun A handgun smaller than a bulldog.
- bullscutter noun The feces of a bull.
- bullseye noun Thick glass set into the side of a ship to let in light.
- bully adj Jovial and blustering.
- bultow noun A trawl; a boulter.
- bum noun A bumbailiff.
- bumble verb To grumble at; to blame.
- bumf noun Toilet paper.
- bummer noun A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
- bummock noun A brewing of ale.
- bump noun One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind.
- bumper verb To drink from the vessels called bumpers.
- bunch noun A seventeenth-century unit of Rhenish glass, 60 of which constitute a way or web.
- bung noun A sharper or pickpocket.
- bung up verb To use up, as by bruising or overexertion; to exhaust or incapacitate for action.
- bunk noun In early use often in the form the bunk.
- bunting noun An old boys' game, played with sticks and a small piece of wood.
- bunyip noun An imposter or con-man.
- buphanine noun An alkaloid extracted from Boophone disticha, but now shown not to be a chemical but to be a mixture.
- Burdekin duck noun A food dish made from leftovers or ingredients to hand, usually including corned beef.
- burden noun A birth.
- burgeon noun A bud, sprout, or shoot.
- burgundy noun Obsolete form of burgundy.
- Burgundy pitch noun A yellowish-brown resinous substance prepared from the exudation of the Norway spruce by melting in hot water and straining through cloth.…
- burrow noun Obsolete form of barrow (“a mound”).
- bursautee noun A disease of horses caused by Pythium insidiosum, thought to be especially common in the rainy season, and characterized by pustular…
- burse noun A stock exchange; a bourse.
- burst verb To cause to break by any means.
- burstenness noun A broken or bruised condition; brokenness; in the extract, a mass of bruises.
- burthen noun The tonnage of a ship based on the number of tuns of wine that it could carry in its holds.
- bury noun A burrow.
- bush pilot noun A person who guides people through bushland.
- bush shrike noun Any bird of the American family Thamnophilidae; an antshrike.
- bushment noun An ambush.
- bushranger noun A person skilled in bushcraft.
- busk verb To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
- busket noun A small bush.
- buster noun A loaf of bread.
- bustle noun Money; cash.
- but conj Except with; unless with; without.
- butcher noun A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
- butcherly adv Like a butcher; cruelly, brutally.
- butt noun Hassock.
- butter noun Any specific soft substance.
- butter-ham noun A slice of buttered bread.
- butterfish noun The Murray perch, Oligorus mitchelli; an Australian perciform fish of Murray river, now known as trout cod, Maccullochella macquariensis…
- butternut noun Southern settlers of the Ohio river basin, who used dye from the butternut tree to colour their home-made clothing
- buttload noun A regional English measure of capacity of a heavy cart (a butt), containing 6 seams, or 48 bushels, equivalent to 384 gallons.
- buttonhole noun vagina, coin slot.
- buxom adj Physically flexible or unresisting.
- buxomness noun Obedience.
- buzzardet noun A hawk resembling the buzzard, but with longer legs, possibly Buteo platypterus.
- buzzer noun A pickpocket.
- by and by adv Immediately; at once.