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 25 of 105: from “Cyprian” to “decumbiture”.
- Cyprian noun A lewd woman; a harlot.
- Cyrillian adj Synonym of Cyrillic.
- cystidean noun Any of the †Cystidea, a class of extinct echinoderms, now known as the †Cystoidea.
- dab adj Bad.
- dabble verb To interfere or meddle in; to tamper with.
- dabblement noun A somewhat wet concentration of mud, paint, water, gore, etc.
- Dacian noun a Dane, Denmark having been known as Dacia in Medieval Latin.
- daddle noun The hand or fist; used in the phrase "tip us your daddle" meaning "give me your hand".
- daddy noun A man who gives away the bride at a wedding, in the absence of her actual father.
- daff verb To daunt.
- daft adj Gentle, meek, mild.
- dag verb To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
- daggle-tail noun Clothes that are filthy at the bottom from dragging through the mud.
- daggle-tailed adj Having the lower ends of clothes dirty due to them trailing in mud or other filth.
- dago noun A crewman who speaks Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian.
- daguerreotype verb To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
- daint adj Dainty.
- dainty adj Excellent; valuable, fine.
- dais noun An elevated table in a hall at which important people were seated; a high table.
- dak noun A journey using the dak system.
- dallop noun A tuft or clump, especially an unploughed patch amongst fields of corn.
- damage verb To undergo damage; to take damage.
- damageable adj Hurtful; pernicious.
- damnify verb To damage physically; to injure.
- damper noun A shop till.
- dampish adj Characterised by noxious vapours; misty, smoky.
- dampy adj Somewhat damp.
- dan noun A title of honour or respect similar to "master" or "Sir", used of historical and legendary figures of the past.
- dancer noun Synonym of garreter (“a thief who used housetops to enter by garret windows”).
- dancing school noun A brothel
- dandiprat noun An English coin worth three half-pence
- dandle verb To play with; to wheedle.
- dang verb To dash.
- danger verb To claim liability.
- dank verb To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.
- danna noun Human feces.
- dare verb To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified.
- dark room noun A camera obscura.
- dark star noun A black hole: star so massive that its escape velocity is above the speed of light, making the star dark, as no light can escape.
- darkey noun A dark lantern.
- darkling noun A child of darkness; someone dark by nature or who has grown dark in character.
- darky noun The time of darkness: night or dusk.
- darling noun A royal favourite, the intimate companion of a monarch or other royal personage, often delegated significant political power.
- dart noun A plan or scheme.
- Darwinian noun An adherent of the philosophical and scientific views, or poetic style, of Erasmus Darwin.
- Darwinic adj Synonym of Darwinian (“of or pertaining to the philosophical and scientific views, or poetic style, of Erasmus Darwin”).
- date noun A given or assigned length of life; duration.
- dated adj Alotted a span of days.
- dation noun A dose.
- dative adj In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
- daub verb To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal.
- daur noun A foray or hasty expedition.
- daw noun An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
- dawcock noun A jackdaw.
- day's math noun A unit of area referring to the amount of land that one person can mow in a single day, roughly equivalent to one acre.
- daywork noun The amount of land that can be worked in a day.
- dead adj Bringing death; deadly.
- dead man noun An extra loaf stolen from a bakery by a servant who smuggles it into the customer's basket (and sometimes fraudulently charges it to the…
- dead man's hand noun Other various hands, among them a full house of three jacks and two tens.
- deadly adj Subject to death; mortal.
- deaf verb To deafen.
- deal noun A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
- dealbate verb To whiten.
- deambulation noun A walking abroad; a promenading.
- dear verb To endear.
- dearth verb To cause or produce a scarcity in something.
- dearthful adj Expensive.
- death-hunter noun A peddler who sold lurid accounts of murderers' dying speeches and confessions.
- deathlike adj Deadly.
- deaurate verb To gild.
- deauration noun The act of gilding.
- debate verb To fight.
- debellation noun The act of conquering or subjugation in war.
- debenture noun A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.
- debile adj Weak; feeble.
- debilitate adj Feeble, enfeebled.
- debonair adj Gracious, courteous.
- deboshed adj Obsolete form of debauched.
- decard verb To discard (get rid of a card).
- decay noun Overthrow, destruction, ruin, death.
- deceivable adj Deceitful, deceptive.
- decent adj Comely; shapely; well-formed.
- decern verb To decide or determine (a matter disputed or doubtful), with simple object, with infinitive or object clause, or intransitive.
- decession noun departure; decrease
- decide verb To cut off; to separate.
- decim noun A tenth, (particularly) a tithe or tax of one-tenth.
- decima noun A tenth: a note nine degrees of the scale above or below a given note (and thus ten degrees separate counting inclusively) or the interval…
- decimate noun A tithe or other 10% tax or payment.
- decime noun Synonym of tithing (a division of the hundreds of medieval England)
- decipium noun Proposed name for a chemical element isolated from samarskite, later found to be a mixture of samarium and other rare earth elements.
- decisor noun A person who resolves or settles matters or controversies; a decider, judge, or arbiter.
- deck noun A heap or store.
- declare verb To make clear, explain, interpret.
- declinator noun A dissenter.
- declinatory adj Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as of submission to a charge or sentence.
- decorate adj decorated, adorned
- decore verb To decorate; to beautify.
- decorous adj Appropriate, suitable.
- decuman adj Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
- decumbiture noun The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.