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 35 of 105: from “fact” to “febricitant”.
- fact noun A feat or meritorious deed.
- factionary adj Belonging to a faction; partisan; taking sides.
- factive adj Making; creative.
- factor noun A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization.
- factory noun An invoice or inventory.
- factum noun A product (result of multiplying two numbers).
- facultize verb To make use of one's faculties; to perform skilled work.
- fadge verb To be suitable (with or to something).
- fading noun An Irish dance.
- faff noun A puff of smoke; a gust of wind.
- fag noun The worst part or end of a thing.
- fag out verb To come on as a fielder at the behest of a senior student in British schools.
- faggot noun Burdensome baggage.
- faggot brief noun A bundle of worthless papers tied up with red tape, carried by unemployed barristers in the back rows of the courts to simulate briefs.
- fagot noun A fagotto, or bassoon.
- fail verb To miss attaining; to lose.
- fain adv With joy or pleasure; gladly.
- fair noun A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
- fairy noun The realm of faerie; enchantment, illusion.
- fairy dance noun Synonym of fairy ring (“a ring of fungi; a place where fairies dance”).
- faith intj Ellipsis of by my faith.
- faithed adj Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere.
- faker noun A thief.
- falchion verb Attack with a falchion.
- faldage noun A privilege of setting up, and moving about, sheepfolds, in any fields within manors, in order to manure them or to keep others' cattle…
- fall verb To let fall; to drop.
- fall out verb To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose.
- fall together verb to contract
- false verb To violate, to betray (a promise, an agreement, one’s faith, etc.).
- falseheart adj Synonym of false-hearted.
- falsify verb To baffle or escape.
- famble noun A hand.
- familiar noun A member of one's family or household.
- familiary adj Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
- famish verb To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
- famishment noun Famine.
- famous verb To make famous; to bring renown to.
- fan-tailed warbler noun Synonym of zitting cisticola.
- fanal noun A lighthouse
- fanatic adj Showing evidence of possession by a god or demon; frenzied, overzealous.
- fancible noun fancy items
- fancied adj Designed in an artistic manner.
- fancy adj Extravagant; above real value.
- fancy man noun A man who fancies something: a fan.
- fane noun A weathercock, a weather vane.
- fang noun Synonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates.
- fanger noun A helper; protector.
- fangle verb To fashion, manufacture, invent, or create.
- fangot noun A unit formerly used for a bundle of silk, especially silk from Aleppo, of varying or unclear weight.
- Fanny Adams noun Tinned meat.
- fantasticness noun fantasticalness
- fantasy verb To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like.
- fap adj Drunk.
- far-fetched adj Brought from far away.
- farantly adj Good-looking; respectable.
- farce verb To make fat.
- farcement noun stuffing; forcemeat
- farcical adj Pertaining to farcy.
- farctate adj Stuffed; filled solid.
- fardel verb To make up in fardels; to bunch.
- fare noun A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
- farfetch noun Anything brought from afar, or brought about with studious care; a deep stratagem.
- farforth adv To a great extent; far.
- faring noun Alternative form of fairing (“something edible; fare”).
- farl noun A quarter of a thin oatmeal or flour cake.
- farm noun Food; provisions; a meal.
- farthing noun A division of land.
- fas noun A border or fringe.
- fasciation noun A bandage.
- fascicule noun A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
- fasel verb To unravel or become frayed.
- fashion verb To forge or counterfeit.
- fast adj Tenacious; retentive.
- fast-handed adj Greedy, miserly.
- fastgang noun A fasting.
- fastigiate adj Tapering to a point
- fastness noun The quality or state of being firm, hard, or solid; firmness, hardness, solidity.
- fat adj Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- father-in-law noun A stepfather.
- fathom verb To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something.
- fatigate verb To weary; to tire; to fatigue.
- fault noun A point of weakness in something's physical structure.
- faulty adj At fault, to blame; guilty.
- fautor noun Patron, protector.
- favel noun flattery; cajolery; deceit
- favor noun Appearance; look; countenance; face.
- fawn noun The young of an animal; a whelp.
- fawny noun A finger ring.
- fax noun The hair of the head.
- fay verb To fit, to add.
- feague noun An unkempt, slatternly person.
- feal verb To press on, advance.
- fear verb To cause fear to; to frighten.
- feared adj Frightened, afraid.
- feast verb To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
- feat verb To form; to fashion.
- featous adj Neat, pretty.
- feature noun One's structure or make-up: form, shape, bodily proportions.
- featy adj Pretty; neat.
- febricitant adj Feverish.