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 41 of 105: from “get” to “goodwilly”.
- get verb To make acquisitions; to gain; to profit.
- get a horse phrase Used to mock automobile drivers suffering breakdowns, suggesting a horse would never suffer such a problem.
- get in verb To produce fewer copies than anticipated.
- get with verb To be in the company of; to accompany.
- ghost verb Apparently only in the writings of the Dutch-English physician Gideon Harvey (c. 1636–1640 – c. 1700–1702): to die, to expire.
- ghurry noun A clepsydra or water clock, consisting of a floating cup with a small hole in it, adjusted so that it fills and sinks in a fixed time.
- gibber noun A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation.
- gibstaff noun A staff to gauge water, or to push a boat.
- giddy verb To move around something or spin rapidly; to reel; to whirl.
- gig noun A top which is made to spin by tying a piece of string around it and then throwing it so that the string unwinds rapidly; a whipping-top.
- giglot noun A strumpet, or a playful or unruly girl.
- gildable adj Liable to pay tax; geldable.
- gilden adj Golden; made of gold.
- gill verb To act as a prostitute.
- gillian noun A girl, especially a wanton.
- gilpy noun A boy.
- gilt noun A gilded object, an object covered with gold.
- giltless adj Guiltless; not guilty.
- gin noun A trick; a device or instrument.
- ging noun A company; troop; a gang.
- gingerbread noun Something ersatz; something showy but insubstantial.
- gingerbread office noun An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- gingerly adv Chiefly of dancing or walking: done with small, dainty steps; daintily; also, with excessive delicacy; affectedly, mincingly.
- gingersnap noun A hot-tempered person, particularly one who is red-haired.
- gingival adj Alveolar.
- girl noun A roebuck two years old.
- gist noun A stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest.
- give verb To become soft or moist.
- give about verb to encompass or surround something
- give against verb to impinge against
- give name to verb To give a name to (a person or animal).
- glad adj Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
- glade noun A gleam of light.
- glaive noun A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.
- glance noun An act of striking and flying off in an oblique direction; a deflection.
- glass noun An hourglass.
- gleam noun Sometimes as hot gleam: a warm ray of sunlight; also, a period of warm weather, for instance, between showers of rain.
- glean verb To collect or gather (things) into one mass.
- gleek verb To ridicule, or mock; to make sport of.
- gleet noun Stomach mucus, especially of a hawk.
- glene noun The pupil or eyeball.
- glib noun A person's mouth or tongue.
- glibbery adj Slippery; changeable.
- glim noun Brightness; splendour.
- glimpse noun A faint (and often temporary) appearance; a tinge.
- glint noun A brief look; a glance.
- gloaming noun Sullenness; melancholy.
- globe noun A group.
- globulus noun A pill, bolus, or spherical suppository.
- glome verb To look gloomy, morose, dark or sullen.
- glope noun Astonishment; awe; fear.
- glorious adj Eager for glory or distinction
- glory noun Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
- gloss noun An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
- glout noun A sulky look.
- glow verb To emit (flame).
- glozer noun A glosser; one who covers things in gloss.
- glum verb To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
- gluten noun Fibrin (formerly considered as one of the "animal humours").
- glutination noun A gluing together; a joining together with, or as though with, glue.
- glutton verb To glut; to eat voraciously.
- glycolignose noun A substance obtained by boiling the ligneous portion of pinewood in dilute acetic acid and treating it with hot water, alcohol, and ether.
- glyconic adj aldaric
- glyconin noun An emulsion of glycerol and egg yolk, formerly used as an ointment, or as a vehicle for medicines, etc.
- glycosine noun An organic base, C₆H₆N₄, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal.
- glyptodon noun Synonym of glyptodontid.
- gnast noun A spark; a dying or dead spark, as of a snuffed candle.
- go verb To walk; to travel on one's feet.
- go along noun A person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery.
- go backwards verb To defecate; to visit the privy.
- go out verb To take part in a duel (with).
- go through the mill verb To go through bankruptcy.
- go with verb To be pregnant with (a child).
- go-harvest noun The open weather between the end of harvest and the appearance of snow or frost; the time of year between the end of harvest and winter.
- God's token noun A cross.
- godet noun A drinking cup.
- Godwilling noun A printed circular sent in advance by a travelling salesman to customers, naming the dates on which he hoped to visit them.
- goel adj yellow
- goer noun A foot (body part).
- goff noun A fool; a clown.
- gog noun Haste; ardent desire to go.
- gold beryl noun Synonym of chrysoberyl
- gold shell noun A shell containing a gold pigment derived from finely ground or powdered gold, which may be combined with a binding medium, typically a gum…
- gold-shrub noun Palicourea speciosa, a shrub or small tree native to tropical America, belonging to the coffee family Rubiaceae.
- goldfinch noun A sovereign (the coin).
- golding noun A gold coin.
- goldsmith noun A banker (because the goldsmiths of London used to receive money on deposit, being equipped to keep it safely).
- Golgotha noun A hat.
- gom intj God!
- gomuti noun The palm tree Arenga pinnata.
- gomuti palm noun Any of species Arenga pinnata of palm trees, native to tropical Asia, from eastern India east to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
- gone north about verb Dead, of sailor or seaman whose cause of death was anything except by drowning.
- gong noun An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- gonghouse noun An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- good adj Real; actual; serious.
- good morrow noun Riverhemp, sesban.
- goodlihead noun The character or nature of a goodly person; goodliness.
- goodly adv In a goodly way; courteously, graciously.
- goodwife noun A female head of a household.
- goodwilly noun A volunteer.