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 53 of 105: from “landfall” to “leprous”.
- landfall noun The first land discovered after a sea voyage.
- landlordry noun The status or doings of a landlord.
- landshark noun A customs officer.
- landsman noun A military rank given to naval recruits.
- languager noun A linguist.
- languish verb To make weak; to weaken, devastate.
- languor noun Sorrow; suffering; also, enfeebling disease or illness; (countable, obsolete) an instance of this.
- lank adj Meagre, paltry, scant in quantity.
- lant verb To flavor (ale) with aged urine.
- lap noun Liquor; alcoholic drink.
- lapidary noun An expert in gems and precious stones; a connoisseur of lapidary work.
- lapidist noun A lapidary (“person who cuts and polishes, engraves, or deals in gems and precious stones; expert in gems and precious stones”).
- lappet noun A lobe (division of an organ).
- lapwing noun A silly man.
- lard noun Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
- lare noun Lore; learning.
- large noun An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
- largely adv Fully, at great length.
- largeness noun Liberality; generosity.
- largesse noun Chiefly in the form at one's largesse: freedom or liberty to act.
- lash adj Remiss, lax.
- lask verb To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.
- last verb To perform, carry out.
- lastage noun A duty exacted, in some fairs or markets, for the right to carry things where one will.
- lasting adj Persisting forever.
- latch noun A latching.
- latchet noun A thong or cord, especially one used to fasten a shoe.
- lathe noun An administrative division of the county of Kent, in England, from the Anglo-Saxon period until it fell entirely out of use in the early…
- Latiner noun A person who speaks and reads Latin, particularly (historical) an early modern student or scholar.
- latitat noun A lawyer.
- latrant noun One who is barking, a dog, (figurative) a complainer.
- latreutical adj Acting as a hired servant; serving; ministering; assisting.
- latrine noun A chamber pot.
- latterly adv lately, (more) recently
- laudative noun A panegyric; a eulogy.
- laugh verb To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
- launce noun Obsolete form of lance.
- launch verb To pierce with, or as with, a lance.
- launder noun A washerwoman or washerman.
- laundress verb To act as a laundress.
- lavatory noun A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
- lave adj Chiefly in lave ears: of ears: drooping, hanging down.
- lavement noun An enema; a suppository.
- lavish noun Excessive abundance or expenditure, profusion, prodigality.
- law verb To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
- law and order noun The principles under which the world and its components operate.
- law Latin noun Barbarous Latin.
- lawing noun Money owed for a service rendered.
- lawn noun A piece of clothing made from lawn.
- Lawsonize verb To amalgamate.
- lay adj Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
- lay down verb To place a sheet in a printing press for printing.
- lay in lavender verb To pawn.
- lay on verb To feed sheets in for printing one by one.
- laystall noun A place where milk-giving cows are kept, or cattle on the way to market are lodged.
- lazarlike adj Synonym of leprous: afflicted with Hansen's disease or visibly covered in similar sores and lesions.
- lazy noun Sloth (animal).
- le prep Next to, near (still used in some place names).
- leacher noun Obsolete form of lecher.
- leadman noun One who leads a dance
- leadsman noun lodesman (a leader or guide)
- leafmeal adv One leaf at a time; leaf by leaf.
- leaful adj Full of faith; believing.
- leaguer verb To beleaguer; to besiege.
- leak adj Leaky.
- leany adj lean
- learner noun A scholar.
- leash noun A brace and a half; a tierce.
- least adj Followed by an agent noun: of a person: who does some action to the smallest degree.
- leatherhead noun A city watchman who wore a leather helmet.
- leatherjacket noun grey gum (Eucalyptus punctata).
- leave verb To remain (behind); to stay.
- Lechish adj Of or relating to a language family including Polish and all the Slavonic languages except Lusatian Wendish.
- lection noun The act of reading.
- lecture noun The act of reading.
- lede noun A man; a person.
- lee noun Lees; dregs.
- lee gauge noun The position of a sailing vessel leeward of another in battle, often restricting manoeuvrability and gunnery.
- leefang noun A rope through the clew of a jib, holding it amidships while lacing on the bonnet.
- leer adj Empty; unoccupied; clear.
- leere noun A tape or braid; an ornament.
- leery adj Sly; artful; knowing.
- leese verb To lose.
- leet noun A regular court, more specifically a court-leet, in which certain lords had jurisdiction over local disputes, or the physical area of this…
- legate verb past participle of legate
- lege verb To allege; to assert.
- legendary noun A collection of legends, in particular of lives of saints.
- leger adj Light; slender, slim; trivial.
- legger noun A man employed by the owners of a canal to push boats through narrow canal tunnels. The legger would lie on his back on a piece of wood on…
- legitimation noun Legitimacy.
- leguleian adj Legal
- leisurable adj Leisurely.
- leme noun A ray or glimmer of light; a gleam.
- lemur noun A loris (Lemur tardigradus, now Loris tardigradus), predating the 10th edition of Systema Naturæ.
- length verb To lengthen.
- lentor noun Viscosity, thickness (chiefly of blood).
- lepidoporphyrin noun A red or violet substance formed by heating the wing pigment of the brimstone butterfly with sulfuric acid in the presence of air.
- lepra noun Synonym of psoriasis.
- leprosy noun Synonym of mange and glanders in horses.
- leprous adj Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.