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 37 of 105: from “flack” to “fondling”.
- flack verb To flutter; palpitate.
- flag noun A groat; fourpence.
- flaggy adj Hanging down; drooping, pendulous.
- flair noun Smell; odor.
- flam verb To deceive with a falsehood.
- flame noun A variety of carnation.
- flanker verb To defend by lateral fortifications.
- flannel noun Synonym of flip (“hot mixture of beer, spirit, etc.”).
- flap noun A blow or slap (especially to the face).
- flapdragon noun A game in which the players take raisins out of burning brandy, and swallow them.
- flare verb To be exposed to too much light.
- flash adj Relating to thieves and vagabonds.
- flash crowd noun The fashionable public.
- flasher noun Someone of great accomplishments, or brilliant appearance.
- flashlight noun A photograph taken with a flash camera.
- flashman noun A pimp.
- flat noun A dull fellow; a simpleton.
- flatter verb In phrasal verb "to flatter with": to encourage, inspire with hope.
- flatty-ken noun A public house whose landlord is ignorant of the practices of the thieves and tramps who frequent it.
- flatulent adj Empty; vain.
- flatuous adj windy; full of wind
- flatus noun Morbid inflation or swelling.
- flaunt noun Anything displayed for show.
- flavedo noun A yellowness or sallowness of the skin or other tissue.
- flavindin noun A pale yellow substance, isomeric with indin and indigo blue, produced by the action of potash on indin.
- flaw noun A flake, fragment, or shiver.
- flawn noun A flan (custard-based dessert)
- flax-stick noun A New Zealander.
- fleak verb Synonym of flake (“to remove (something) in fleaks or flakes (small chips or pieces)”).
- flèche noun An arrow.
- fleet verb To float.
- flesh verb To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice.
- flesh and blood noun A mixture of brandy and port in equal quantities.
- fleshling noun A person devoted to sensual pursuits.
- fley verb To frighten.
- fligger verb To sneer.
- flight adj Fast, swift, fleet.
- flimsy adj Of a person, their physical makeup, or their health: delicate, frail.
- flinder noun A butterfly or moth.
- fling noun A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of sarcastic scorn; a gibe or taunt.
- flint noun A tailor's employee who is paid by the day.
- flip-flap noun A costermonger's dance.
- flisk noun A caper; a spring; a whim.
- flit adj Fast, nimble.
- flite verb to make or utter complaint.
- flittern noun The bark obtained from young oak trees.
- float noun The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- flock verb To flock to; to crowd.
- flocoon noun The filamentous, waxy white covering of certain aphids, especially of the subfamilies Chermesidae and Pemphiginae.
- flood noun Water as opposed to land.
- floodgate noun A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.
- floogy noun Alternative form of floozie.
- floran noun tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone
- florentine noun A kind of durable silk.
- florette noun waste silk of longer fibre (considered higher quality) than bourette.
- florid adj Flourishing; in the bloom of health.
- floryshe noun Obsolete form of flourish.
- flosh noun A hopper-shaped box in which ore is placed to be stamped.
- flote noun A wave.
- flour noun Obsolete form of flower.
- flourish verb To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
- flower noun Flour.
- fluctuate adj Tossed up and down the waves.
- flue noun A woolly or downy substance; down, nap; a piece of this.
- fluellin noun Any of various varieties of Veronica, especially Veronica officinalis; speedwell.
- fluence noun Fluency
- fluent noun A continuous variable, especially one with respect to time in Newton's Method of Fluxions.
- flues noun Bits of down.
- fluey adj Downy; fluffy.
- fluff verb To deliberately shortchange (a railway customer) and keep the money for oneself.
- flugel noun A harpsichord.
- fluidism noun The doctrine that the fluids of the body are the source of its vital properties and are susceptible to disease.
- fluor noun A flow or flux.
- fluoric adj Hydrofluoric.
- fluster noun A state of slight drunkenness or tipsiness; also, the excitement caused by this state.
- flustering adj Boasting or bragging noisily; blustering, swaggering.
- flutter verb To be frivolous.
- fluviation noun Preparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
- fluxible adj Capable of being melted or fused.
- fluxion noun The derivative of a function.
- fluxure noun The quality of being fluid; fluidity.
- fly noun A witch's familiar.
- flyfish noun Sebastes ensifer (the name given in most sources,Sebastichthys rhodochloris, seems to be a synonym for this), a brightly-coloured…
- focal noun One of two lines perpendicular to the axis of a cone such that the cosine of the angle between the line and the axis is equal to the ratio…
- fodient noun One of the former suborder Fodientia; the aardvark.
- foe adj Hostile.
- fog verb To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- fogger noun One who fogs; a pettifogger.
- foh intj An exclamation of abhorrence or contempt.
- foible adj Weak; feeble.
- foil verb To tread underfoot; to trample.
- foinery noun Thrusting with the foil; fencing with the point of the sword, as distinguished from broadsword play.
- foist noun A type of light and fast-sailing ship.
- fold noun A wrapping or covering.
- foliate verb To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
- follow-me-lad noun A curl of a young woman's hair arranged to trail over her shoulder.
- fomes noun Morbid matter created by a disease.
- fon noun A fool or idiot.
- fond verb To have a foolish affection for, to be fond of.
- fondling noun A foolish person.