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 17 of 105: from “cherry pit” to “circumflex”.
- cherry pit noun A children's game in which players attempt to knock marbles into a hole without losing their taw in the same hole.
- Cheskian adj Czech
- chest noun A coffin.
- chesten noun A chestnut.
- cheval noun A support or frame.
- cheverel noun Kid, as used to make leather.
- cheveril noun Soft leather made of kid skin.
- chevisance noun Provision(s), supply.
- chewet noun A kind of meat pie.
- chi-ike noun A hearty, often light-heartedly sarcastic, greeting.
- chiaus noun Obsolete spelling of chouse (“a swindler”).
- chick verb To sprout, as seed does in the ground; to vegetate.
- chicken noun The young of any bird; a chick.
- chide verb To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily.
- child noun A female child, a girl.
- childe noun Obsolete form of child.
- childed adj Having a child.
- childing adj Fruitful; productive.
- childrens noun genitive of children
- chill contraction I will
- china noun Synonym of cheyney: worsted or woolen stuff.
- Chinaboy noun A boy who is Chinese; a (young) man from China or of Chinese descent.
- chinaman noun Addiction from a narcotic, especially heroin.
- chinawoman noun A female dealer in porcelain.
- chine verb To crack, split, fissure, break.
- chined adj Broken in the back.
- Chinese hedgehog noun A species of hedgehog, Erinaceus amurensis, native to eastern China, Russia, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula.
- chinse verb To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel, the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
- chirm noun A din or confused noise, as of many voices, birdsong, etc.
- chirograph noun The last part of a fine of land; the "foot of the fine".
- chirp verb To cheer up; to make (someone) happier.
- chirper noun A chirping cup; an alcoholic drink.
- chit noun An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
- chitter verb To shiver or chatter with cold.
- chitterling noun The frill to the breast of a shirt.
- chivalry noun The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
- chive noun The filament which supports the anther of a flower; stamen, especially of saffron.
- chlorin noun Obsolete spelling of chlorine.
- chlorometer noun An instrument to test the bleaching power of chloride of lime.
- chlorometry noun The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
- chlorous adj Relating to, or resembling, the electronegative character of chlorine; hence, electronegative; opposed to basylous or zincous.
- chock verb To fill up, as a cavity.
- choco noun A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier.
- choice adj Careful in choosing; discriminating.
- choiceful adj Making choices; fickle.
- choke-children noun A fish, the allis shad (Alosa alosa) or rock herring.
- choke-dog noun A very hard cheese. Attributed variously to counties of the West Country of the United Kingdom such as Devon, Dorset and the Isle of Wight.
- choleric adj Of a body organ: affected by or containing choler, especially when abnormal or excessive.
- cholerous noun Of or related to choler, yellow bile; choleric
- chondromucoid noun The combination of chondroitin sulfate and collagen fibres that gives cartilage its resilience and flexibility.
- chondropterygian adj Having a cartilaginous skeleton.
- choose noun The act of choosing; selection.
- chop verb To exchange, to barter; to swap.
- chop logic verb To talk back, bandy words; to argue generally.
- chop up verb To seize or devour greedily.
- chopping adj stout; large; plump
- chopstick verb To fish using a tackle with a chopstick.
- chore noun A choir or chorus.
- chorography noun Choreography.
- chouse verb To cheat, to trick.
- chowchow verb To gossip.
- Christ-killer noun One who is considered to have spoken or acted against the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christen verb To Christianize.
- Christendom noun The name received at baptism; any name or appellation.
- christian noun A European, especially though not necessarily of the Christian religion.
- Christmas verb To bring (someone) Christmas cheer.
- chromography noun Synonym of chromolithography.
- chronograph noun A chronogram.
- chrysosperm noun The seed of gold; an alchemical means of creating gold.
- chuck verb To chuckle; to laugh.
- chuckle adj Clumsy.
- chucks intj A warning cry used by schoolboys when a teacher is approaching.
- chud verb To champ; to bite.
- chuet noun minced meat
- chuff adj Swollen with fat.
- chum up verb To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.
- chummage noun The lodging of several people in a single apartment.
- chummy noun A boy who works for a chimney sweep.
- chump noun A person's head or face.
- church noun Assembly.
- churchman noun A churchwarden.
- chylaqueous adj Consisting of chyle diluted with water; pertaining to diluted digestive juices, especially those that circulate in organisms that do not…
- chymic adj chemic
- chymistry noun Obsolete form of chemistry.
- chyometer noun An instrument for measuring the specific gravity of liquids, consisting of a tube with a piston inside.
- cibarious adj Relating to food.
- cibation noun The act of consuming food.
- cichoraceous adj Belonging to the former order of composite plants Cichorieae, roughly corresponding to modern-day tribe Cichorieae.
- ciliograde adj Moving by means of cilia or similar organs, such as ctenophores do.
- cimbal noun A kind of confectionery or cake.
- cipher verb To decipher.
- circ noun An amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus.
- circination noun A circling motion; a rotation.
- circle noun Compass; circuit; enclosure.
- circler noun An inferior or itinerant poet.
- circuit verb To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
- circular adj Perfect; complete.
- circumduct verb To lead about or astray.
- circumference verb To include in a circular space; to bound.
- circumflex verb To arch.