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 38 of 105: from “fooder” to “fox-whelp”.
- fooder noun Food for animals.
- fool rack noun A strong alcoholic drink made from distilled toddy or sura.
- foot verb To set on foot; to establish; to land.
- footglove noun A kind of stocking.
- footmeal noun A fotmal.
- footstep noun An inclined plane under a hand printing press.
- for prep Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done.
- forage noun The demand for fodder, etc., by an army from the local population.
- forasmuch adv So far as; with regard to so much as.
- forasmuch as conj So far as; with regard to so much as.
- forbar verb To bar in; to shut up.
- forbeat verb To beat.
- forbid verb To accurse; to blast.
- forbleed verb To exhaust with bleeding.
- forbode verb obsolete simple past of forbid.
- forburn verb To destroy or damage by burning.
- forcasten adj Felled, fallen.
- force verb To exert oneself, to do one's utmost.
- forcible adj Having (physical) force, forceful.
- fordede noun A deed done for another, a favour.
- fordo verb To kill, destroy.
- fordread verb To be in dread of.
- fordrench verb To make drunk; intoxicate.
- fordry adj Very dry; withered.
- fore adj Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
- fore-handed adj Wealthy.
- forebode noun prognostication; presage
- forecast verb To contrive or plan beforehand.
- foredeem verb To judge, form a judgement of, or declare beforehand; foretell; forecast; presage.
- forefoot verb To repair the front area of (a shoe etc).
- forehanded adj Wealthy.
- foreign noun An outsider: a person from another place or group.
- forepossessed adj Holding or held formerly in possession.
- foreright adv Directly forwards, straight ahead.
- foresee verb To provide.
- foreshow noun A manifestation in advance; a prior indication.
- foreslow verb To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
- forespeaking noun A foretelling; a prediction.
- forestage noun Forecastle.
- forestall noun An ambush; plot; an interception; waylaying; rescue.
- forester noun A person who lives in a forest.
- foretop noun The top of the head; the top of the forehead.
- forewit verb To foreknow.
- forfare verb To go to ruin; be destroyed; perish.
- forfeit noun Injury; wrong; mischief.
- forfight verb To defend.
- forgrow verb To grow to excess or out of shape; grow unduly.
- forguilt verb To bring into a state of guilt; make guilty.
- forhow verb To despise; scorn.
- forirk verb To irk; weary.
- forisfamiliate verb To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
- fork noun A gallows.
- forkhead noun An arrow with a barbed tip.
- forktail noun A salmon in its fourth year of growth.
- forlay verb To lay aside.
- forlest verb first-person simple past of forlese
- forlorn hope noun In the plural form forlorn hopes: the soldiers collectively making up such a troop; (by extension) a group of reckless adventurers.
- formful adj creative; imaginative;
- formicant adj Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
- forpass verb To go by; pass, go past; pass unnoticed; cross.
- forpine verb To pine away.
- forsake verb To decline or refuse (something offered).
- forshame verb To be ashamed; be greatly ashamed.
- forshape verb To metamorphose; change the shape of; transform.
- forslack verb To be slack in; neglect by idleness; relax; render slack; delay; lose or spoil by slackness.
- forslow verb To be dilatory about; put off; postpone; neglect; omit.
- forspan verb To entice; seduce.
- forspeak verb To bewitch, to charm.
- forswart verb To blacken; make or become swart or swarthy; sunburn.
- forswelt verb To die.
- forth prep Forth from; out of.
- forthcome noun A coming forth.
- forthfare noun Departure.
- forthink verb To cause distress or regret to; cause to regret or repent; to vex.
- forthlook verb To look forth; look out.
- forthy adv Therefore.
- fortify verb To provide (a city, a fortress, an army, etc.) with equipment or soldiers.
- fortition noun Casual choice; fortuitous selection; hazard.
- fortravel verb To exhaust with labour; forwork; forswink.
- fortune verb To happen, to take place.
- forward adj Ready; prompt; ardently inclined; in a bad sense, eager or hasty.
- forwaste verb To waste; waste completely; lay waste to; desolate.
- forweary verb To weary utterly; tire out.
- forworth verb To perish, forfare; come to nought or ruin; go wrong.
- foryield verb to pay back; recompense.
- foster verb To be nurtured or trained up together.
- fosterment noun food, nourishment or upkeep
- fotch verb Pronunciation spelling of fetch.
- foul adj Ugly; homely; poor.
- foul feeder noun A horse that has bad eating habits.
- foundress noun A female founder (“one who founds or casts metals”).
- four noun A four-pennyworth of spirits.
- four-ale noun A cheap ale, sold at fourpence per quart
- fourling noun One of four children born at the same birth; a quadruplet.
- fourth estate noun A hypothetical fourth class of civic subjects, or fourth body (in Britain, after the Crown, and the two Houses of Parliament) which…
- fouter noun An act of sexual intercourse.
- fower noun One who cleans (fows), as in cooking utensils or house maintenance.
- fowl adj foul
- fox noun A sword; so called from the stamp of a fox on the blade, or perhaps of a wolf taken for a fox.
- fox-whelp noun The whelp of a fox.