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 44 of 105: from “handed” to “hempie”.
- handed adj With hands joined; hand in hand.
- handfast noun A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
- handful noun A hand's breadth; four inches.
- handicap noun An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
- handicraft noun A man who earns his living by handicraft; a handicraftsman.
- handless adj Not handy; awkward.
- handling noun The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
- handly adj Of or pertaining to the hand; manual.
- handphone noun A telephone receiver or handset.
- handsaw noun A heron.
- handsel noun A lucky omen.
- handsome verb To render handsome.
- handsomely adv In a convenient manner; conveniently, readily.
- handstaff noun A weapon mentioned in the Bible (Ezekiel), perhaps a javelin.
- handy dandy noun A children's game in which one child guesses in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and…
- hang dog noun A rascal, one fit to be executed by hanging.
- hang off verb To be avoidant or disinterested.
- hangar noun A covered shed for carriages.
- hank noun Hold; influence.
- happen adv maybe, perhaps.
- happiness noun Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace, used especially of language.
- happy-go-lucky adv As luck will have it.
- haras noun A herd of stud horses; a harras.
- harass verb Often followed by out: to fatigue or tire (someone) with exhausting and repeated efforts.
- harbinge verb To lodge, stay.
- harbinger noun One who provides lodgings; especially, the officer of the English royal household who formerly preceded the court when travelling, to…
- harbor noun A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.
- hard verb To make hard, harden.
- hard multum noun A toxic preparation made from Anamirta cocculus, etc., once used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer.
- hardhead noun Clash or collision of heads in contest.
- hardiness noun The quality of being bold in the face of risk or authority.
- hardly adv Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion.
- hare verb To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry.
- harlot noun A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.
- harman noun A policeman.
- harmans noun The stocks (instrument of punishment)
- harmless adj Unharmed.
- haro intj An exclamation of distress; alas.
- harper noun An old Irish brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp.
- harrow intj A call for help, or of distress, alarm etc.
- harry noun A menial servant; a sweeper.
- Harry-soph noun A student of law or medicine at Cambridge who, being of the same standing as the students in arts in his year, is allowed to wear a…
- hask noun A basket made of flags or rushes, as for carrying fish.
- haste noun Urgency; sudden excitement of feeling or passion; precipitance; vehemence.
- hastily adv Soon, shortly.
- hat noun A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
- hatch verb To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
- hause noun Obsolete form of hawse.
- haut adj Haughty.
- have reason verb To be right.
- having adj Grasping; greedy.
- haw noun Something that has little value or importance; a whit or jot.
- hay noun A hedge.
- hazard noun Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
- hazarder noun A player at cards or dice; gamester.
- head verb To behead; to decapitate.
- head money noun Poll tax.
- headless adj Heedless.
- headling noun An equal; a fellow; mate.
- headpan noun The skull or neurocranium.
- headrail noun A person's tooth.
- headsman noun A chief person; a head man
- headstall noun A phorbeia.
- heal noun health
- health noun Cure, remedy.
- hean adj Mean; abject; poor; humble; lowly.
- hearken verb To enquire; to seek information.
- heart verb To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage.
- heartless adj Without courage; fearful, cowardly.
- heartsong noun A heartwarming song or poem.
- hearty noun a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.
- heathenesse noun Obsolete form of heathenness.
- heave verb To rob; to steal from; to plunder.
- heaven verb To transport to the abode of God, the gods, or the blessed.
- heaviness noun Drowsiness.
- heavy adj With child; pregnant.
- hebdomad noun A group of seven.
- hebdomadal adj Lasting seven days.
- hebdomadary adj hebdomadal
- hebephrenia noun A type of mental disorder occurring during puberty characterized by silly behavior and inappropriate laughter.
- Hebraist noun A proponent of Hebrew as the language of the Zionist movement.
- heck noun A door, especially one partly of latticework.
- hectic noun A hectic fever.
- hecticity noun The quality of being hectic (pertaining to or symptomatic of hectic fever).
- hederate noun Any salt of hederic acid, an organic compound first extracted from ivy seeds, now called hederagenin.
- hedgeborn adj Born under a hedge or of low birth.
- heed verb To guard, protect.
- heel noun A cyma reversa.
- heft noun An act of heaving (lifting with difficulty); an instance of violent exertion or straining.
- heifer noun A wife.
- helianthoid adj Of or pertaining to the Helianthoidea, an obsolete subdivision of zoophytes, certain sea anemones and similar species
- heliograph noun A photograph.
- heliographer noun A photographer.
- heliography noun Photography.
- hell noun A place into which a tailor throws shreds, or a printer discards broken type.
- helly adj Hellish, infernal.
- helm noun The crown or top of something.
- helpless adj From which there is no possibility of being saved.
- hemigynous adj Having characteristics of both male and female of the species but the sexual organs for one gender only.
- hempie noun A criminal; someone who deserves to be, or is likely to be, hanged.