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 22 of 105: from “contributory” to “cot-quean”.
- contributory adj Paying tribute, tributary.
- contrite adj Thoroughly bruised or broken.
- contrition noun The act of grinding or rubbing to powder.
- contrive verb To spend (time, or a period).
- control verb To call to account, to take to task, to challenge.
- controlless adj uncontrollable
- controversal adj Facing opposite directions.
- controverse noun Controversy.
- contrude verb to thrust or crowd together; to cram
- convection noun The process of conveying something.
- convel verb To tear (tissue, a nerve, etc.), to convulse.
- convenable adj fit; suitable or just
- convenient adj Fit; suitable; appropriate.
- convent verb To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
- conventicling adj Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle
- conventionalism noun A conventional act or constraint.
- conversable adj Able to be conversed with.
- conversation noun Interaction; commerce or intercourse with other people; dealing with others.
- converse verb To have knowledge of something, from long talk or study.
- conversible adj Capable of being substituted or swapped (with another thing).
- conversion noun The act of turning round; revolution; rotation.
- convert verb To cause to turn; to turn.
- convertible adj Able to be turned in a different direction.
- convertite noun A reformed or former prostitute.
- convey verb To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- conveyancer noun A pickpocket.
- convince verb To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
- convincible adj Capable of being disproved by argument; refutable.
- convive verb To feast with others
- cony noun A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
- coo-coo noun A cuckoo.
- cooch noun The hootchy-kootchy, a type of erotic dance.
- coochie noun The hootchy-kootchy, a type of erotic dance.
- cook verb To make the noise of the cuckoo.
- cookeress noun A female cooker.
- cookery noun A delicacy; a dainty.
- cool adj Calmly audacious.
- cooler noun A final glass of porter after a session drinking spirits and water.
- coolly adj Coolish; somewhat cool in temperature.
- coop noun A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
- cooper noun A drink of half stout and half porter.
- coopery adj Relating to a cooper; coopered.
- coosumba noun Safflower.
- cop noun A spider.
- cope verb To bargain for; to buy.
- copemate noun adversary, antagonist
- copist noun A copier; one who copies.
- copland noun A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle.
- copulate adj Joined; associated; coupled.
- copulative noun A connection.
- copy noun That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
- coque noun Synonym of coccus.
- coquet noun A flirtatious male.
- corb noun a corbel (ornament in a building).
- cordage noun An amount of wood measured in cords.
- cordial adj Proceeding from the heart.
- corduroy noun Cheap and poor-quality whiskey.
- core noun A body of individuals; an assemblage.
- corn verb To render intoxicated.
- corned adj Drunk.
- corner noun A point scored in a rubber at whist.
- cornercap noun A priest's or academic's hat.
- cornet noun A troop of cavalry; so called from its being accompanied by a cornet player.
- cornicle noun A little horn.
- cornicular adj Being or relating to a horn angle.
- cornobble verb To slap or strike someone on the head.
- cornstalk noun A non-indigenous person born in Australia.
- cornu ammonis noun A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an ammonite.
- corny adj Producing corn or grain; furnished with grains of corn.
- coronary adj Pertaining to a crown or garland.
- coronate adj Having or wearing a crown, crowned; (as a participle) crowned, coronated.
- coronis noun The conclusion of something; the end of something.
- corporality noun The state of being or having a body (being corporal/corporeal); bodily existence.
- corporate verb To incorporate.
- corpsman noun An enlisted person in the U.S. Army who works as a field medic.
- corpulent adj Physical, material, corporeal.
- corpuscularian adj Pertaining to or consisting of corpuscules; corpuscular.
- corrade verb To gnaw into; to wear away
- corrasion noun The diminution of wealth, etc., such as through unanticipated expenditure.
- corrective adj Qualifying; limiting.
- corrector noun A proofreader.
- correption noun A chiding, scolding; telling off.
- correspond verb To have sex with.
- correspondence noun Friendly discussion.
- corrigible adj Submissive to correction
- corrivation noun The flowing of different streams into one.
- corroborate adj Corroborated.
- corrugate adj Corrugated, wrinkled, crumpled, furrowed.
- corruptibly adv With corruption, in a way that corrupts.
- corsage noun The size or shape of a person's body.
- corse noun A (living) body.
- corsive adj Corrosive.
- cosinage noun A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other…
- cosmographer noun Someone who describes the world; a geographer or anthropologist.
- Cossack noun A Ukrainian.
- cost noun Manner; way; means; available course; contrivance.
- coster noun A costard: a large apple good for cooking; any apple.
- costiveness noun Inability to express oneself; stiffness.
- cot noun A man who does household work normally associated with women.
- cot-quean noun A man who performs tasks that traditionally belong to a woman; an effeminate man.