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 32 of 105: from “ellen” to “ensurer”.
- ellen noun Zeal.
- ellipsis noun An ellipse.
- elodian noun Any of a group of tortoises (Elodites obs.) including the terrapins, in which the head and neck can be withdrawn.
- eloge noun An expression of praise.
- eloign verb To remove (something) to a distance.
- elong verb To lengthen out; to prolong.
- elongate verb Followed by from: to move to or place (something) at a distance from another thing; to remove.
- elucidate verb To make (something) lucid (“bright, luminous; also, clear, transparent”).
- email noun Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).
- emanation noun (physics, chemistry) The element radon (Rn)
- emancipate verb To place (something) under one's control; specifically (chiefly reflexive), to cause (oneself or someone) to become the slave of another…
- embar verb To prohibit, debar (someone from doing something).
- embarkation noun A vessel.
- embase verb To lower physically.
- embay verb To bathe; to steep.
- emblem verb To symbolize.
- emboil verb To boil with anger; to effervesce.
- emboss noun Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”).
- embossed adj Foaming at the mouth.
- embowel verb To enclose or bury.
- embowl verb To form like a bowl
- embrace verb To fasten on, as armour.
- embraid verb To tell off; to reprimand
- embrasure noun An embrace.
- embrave verb To inspire with bravery.
- embrewe verb embrew; stain
- embrocation noun The act of moistening and rubbing a diseased part with spirit, oil, etc.
- embroil noun A state of confusion or uproar; a commotion, a disturbance; also, a quarrel.
- emendate adj Emended, corrected, restored.
- emergence noun An emergency.
- emeril noun emery
- eminency noun eminence
- emmantle verb Obsolete form of immantle.
- emotion noun Movement; agitation.
- empair verb Obsolete form of impair.
- empathy noun MDMA.
- empeople verb To form into a people or community.
- emphatically adv Not really, but apparently.
- emplaster noun A plaster.
- emplastration noun Grafting by inoculation; budding.
- employ noun The act of employing someone or making use of something; employment.
- emporium noun The brain.
- emprise verb To undertake.
- empty adj Free; clear; devoid; often with of.
- empyreuma noun The particular smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in sealed containers.
- emu noun A cassowary (genus Casuarius).
- emulate adj Striving to excel, ambitious, emulous.
- emulation noun Jealous rivalry; envy; envious contention.
- enarch verb To arch.
- encampment noun A meeting of Freemasons.
- encountering adj Fit for an encounter or battle.
- encrinite noun A fossil crinoid, especially one belonging to, or resembling, the genus †Encrinus.
- encroach verb to seize, appropriate
- endanger verb To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
- endear verb To make (something) more precious or valuable.
- endeared adj Having become treasured or precious; beloved.
- endeavor verb To exert oneself.
- endless adj Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying.
- endman noun A type of stock character common in American minstrel shows, occurring in pairs, flanking a character in the middle, and distinguished by…
- endoss verb To write on the back of (a document); to endorse.
- endow verb To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
- endue verb To put (something) on top of a thing; to cover, to overlay.
- endure verb To indurate.
- energetic adj Having powerful effects; efficacious, potent.
- energic adj Potent, effective.
- energize verb To use strength in action; to act or operate with force or vigor; to act in producing an effect.
- enfant terrible noun A wild child.
- enforce verb To strengthen (a castle, town etc.) with extra troops, fortifications etc.
- eng adj Narrow.
- engage verb To pledge, pawn (one's property); to put (something) at risk or on the line; to mortgage (houses, land).
- engender verb To beget (of a man); to bear or conceive (of a woman).
- engine verb To assault with an engine.
- engineer noun A soldier in charge of operating a weapon; an artilleryman, a gunner.
- enginer noun A contriver, an inventor.
- enginous adj Pertaining to an engine.
- engirt verb To girt; to surround or encircle.
- engore verb To gore, pierce, or lacerate.
- engrave verb To put in a grave, to bury.
- engross verb To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
- enhance verb To lift, raise up.
- enlargement noun Freedom from confinement; liberty.
- ennead noun The number nine.
- enneatical adj Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth.
- ennoble verb To inarch.
- enoiling noun The action of anointing a person with oil.
- enormity noun Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
- enormous adj Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
- enrace verb To implant.
- enrage verb To provoke to madness, to make insane.
- enraged adj Insane, mad.
- enrank verb To place in ranks or in order.
- enroll verb To envelop; to enwrap.
- ensample verb To exemplify, to show by example.
- enseal verb To mark with, or as if with, a seal (stamp)
- enseam verb To remove the surplus fat from a horse or (in falconry) a bird.
- ensearch verb To search; to try to find something.
- ensign verb To designate as by an ensign.
- ensue verb To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
- ensure verb To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure.
- ensurer noun Obsolete form of insurer.