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 45 of 105: from “hen” to “homiletical”.
- hen noun A large pewter pot used in a tavern.
- hence intj Go away! Begone!
- henchman noun A page to a prince or other person of high rank.
- hend verb To take hold of; to grasp, hold.
- henhussy noun A girl or woman who tends chickens.
- hent verb To take hold of, to grasp.
- hep noun A hip of a rose; a rosehip.
- hepar noun liver of sulphur; a substance of a liver-brown colour, sometimes used in medicine, formed by fusing sulphur with carbonates of the alkalis…
- hepar antimonii noun A substance of a liver-brown colour obtained by fusing together antimony sulphide with alkaline sulphides, and consisting of…
- hepatica noun Medicines to treat the liver.
- heptameride noun An interval of pitch equal to 1/7 of a meride, or 1/301 of an octave.
- herb bennet noun Hemlock.
- herbalism noun Botany, the study of plants in general.
- herdful adj Rich in herds (of cattle etc.).
- hereby adv Near this place; nearby.
- herefore adv Obsolete spelling of herefor.
- herl noun a strand of hair
- hermodactyl noun A type of root, probably from a plant of the genus Colchicum, as imported and used in Western medicine.
- Herodism noun Indulgence in or worship of worldly spectacle and power rather than that which is good or worthy.
- herry verb To honour, praise or celebrate.
- herse noun Obsolete form of hearse (“a carriage for the dead”).
- hesychastic adj Soothing or calming.
- heteric adj Involving idiosyncratic rules of spelling, rather than phonetic spelling.
- heteroconjugation noun heteroassociation (between a base and the conjugate acid of a different base through a hydrogen bond)
- heterosexual adj Having a sexual desire for the opposite sex seen as unhealthy, including a proclivity for nonreproductive sex.
- hew noun Destruction by cutting down or hewing.
- hexadecile noun The aspect or position of any two celestial bodies separated by 22.5° (that is, 360° divided by 16) as they appear to an observer on earth.
- hexiology noun The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
- heyday intj An expression of frolic and exultation, and sometimes of wonder.
- hidage noun A tax formerly paid to the kings of England for every hide of land.
- hide noun The human skin.
- hidebound adj Niggardly; penurious; stingy.
- high verb To rise.
- high and low noun People of high rank or status.
- High Churchman noun An Anglican opponent of religious toleration; a Tory.
- high tide noun A great festival.
- highbinder noun A ruffian, especially one of a gang.
- higher arithmetic noun A loosely defined range of topics in arithmetic, distinguished from elementary arithmetic by the more advanced nature of the methods and…
- highflier noun A writer of begging letters.
- highman noun A loaded die that yields high numbers.
- highness noun The style of an emperor or king.
- hijack noun A highwayman, robber.
- hile noun A bundle of sheaves of wheat (or similar crop) stacked vertically to dry; a stook.
- hinder verb To cause harm.
- Hindoo noun Any subject regarding to Mughal Empire.
- Hindu noun A bunnia (merchant or trader) with a company of soldiers.
- Hinduphobia noun Fear or hatred of Indians, regardless of religion
- hinge verb To bend.
- hint noun An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
- hippocoprosterol noun A substance obtained from horse feces, thought to have been formed by reduction of cholesterol in the intestine.
- hipster noun A person who wears a hip flask (of alcohol).
- hirdy-girdy noun Obsolete form of hurdy-gurdy (“musical instrument”).
- hire noun Reward.
- hireling noun A prostitute.
- his det Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
- historic noun A history, a non-fiction account of the past.
- historical adj Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.
- history verb To narrate or record.
- hit out verb To perform by good luck.
- hitherto adv Synonym of hereto (“regarding this subject; to achieve this result; to this end”).
- HMAS noun His Majesty's Auxiliary Ship
- ho verb To care, be anxious, to long.
- hoa intj ho; hey; a call for attention
- hoar verb To become mouldy or musty.
- hoary adj Remote in time past.
- hob noun A fairy; a sprite; an elf; a bogey.
- hobble verb To commit (a person) for trial.
- hobnail noun A yokel; a rustic.
- hobnob noun A toast made while touching glasses together.
- Hobson-Jobson noun Any Indian religious observance, especially the Muharram.
- hockettor noun A knight of the post; a professional false witness.
- hocus noun A magician, illusionist, one who practises sleight of hand.
- hocus-pocus noun A conjurer.
- hod verb To bob up and down on horseback, as an inexperienced rider may do; to jog.
- hoddy-dod noun A snail.
- hoddy-peak noun A fool, person of low intelligence.
- hoddydoddy noun An awkward or foolish person.
- hodmandod noun A hedgehog.
- hog noun A tanner, a sixpence coin; its value.
- hog bed noun Lycopodium.
- hog grass noun Polygonum aviculare.
- hog loom noun A sunk receptacle or trough (especially of brick) to throw therein the wash and refuse for pigs to eat.
- hog-beetle noun A weevil of the family Curculionidae.
- hogget noun A young swine of the second year.
- hoise verb To hoist, be raised.
- hoit verb To romp noisily; to caper, to leap.
- hoity-toity adv Flightily, giddily.
- Hoklo noun A member of a Southern Min-speaking Chinese people who inhabit or originate from eastern Guangdong; (loosely) Teochew.
- hold adj Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
- hold one's jaw verb To refrain from talking, to hold one's tongue, to be quiet.
- hold the ring verb To maintain order among spectators encircling participants in a prizefight or a performance and keep them from coming too near the…
- holding noun Logic; consistency.
- holostome noun Any of the former division Holostomata of gastropods.
- homage verb To pay reverence to by external action.
- home adj Personal, intimate.
- home-dweller noun Someone who remained tethered to their domestic sphere or community.
- homespun noun An unpolished, rustic person.
- homestead noun The home or seat of a family; place of origin.
- homeward bounder noun A goldmine which is highly productive, making the owners rich enough to abandon mining and return to their home country.
- homiletical adj social or companionable.