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 63 of 105: from “neveling” to “nuel”.
- neveling adv On one's face; face-down.
- neven verb To give as a name to; name; call (someone something).
- new verb To make new; to recreate; to renew.
- newel noun A novelty; a new thing.
- newfangle adj Eager for novelties; desirous of changing.
- newform verb To form or shape anew; reform.
- newspaper verb To harass somebody through newspaper articles.
- next prep On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
- nibble noun Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage.
- niblike adj Gentlemanly.
- nibs noun Self.
- nice adj Silly, ignorant; foolish.
- niceling noun An effeminate, tender, or delicate person.
- nicely adv Fastidiously; carefully.
- niceness noun Silliness; folly.
- nicety noun That which is delicate to the taste.
- nick verb To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- nicker noun One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
- nidget noun A fool or idiot.
- nidulate verb To make or build a nest.
- nielsbohrium noun A rejected name for dubnium (105).
- niggerizing noun The process of treating wood with a coal tar mixture under high pressure, for the purpose of increasing acid resistance.
- niggle verb To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
- night air noun A miasma, or noxious atmosphere.
- night-rail noun A loose robe worn as a nightgown.
- nihilate verb To annul.
- nihility noun A nonexistent thing; nothing.
- nill verb To be unwilling; will not (+ infinitive).
- nim verb To take or seize.
- ninepence noun A former British silver coin, worth nine old pennies.
- Ninevite noun Synonym of Assyrian script.
- nip verb To steal; especially to cut a purse.
- nipper noun A satirist.
- niter noun Native sodium carbonate; natron.
- nitid adj Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.
- nitrosamide noun any N-nitroso amide
- nitty adj Shining; elegant, spruce.
- nix intj A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.
- nizam noun The Turkish regular army; a soldier in the Turkish army.
- no body pron Obsolete form of nobody.
- Noah's ark noun A nark (spoilsport).
- nob noun Obsolete form of knob (“rounded protuberance”).
- nobbler noun A serving of beer or spirits.
- nocent noun A guilty person.
- noctiluca noun A firefly, glowworm.
- noddify verb To make (someone) into a noddy (“silly or stupid person”); to make a fool of, to make a monkey out of.
- noddle noun The back of the head; nape.
- noddy verb Synonym of noddify (“to make (someone) into a noddy (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), to make a fool of”)
- noematograph noun An instrument for recording the time of physical processes, having a manually operated cylinder covered in paper which is struck by a…
- noeud vital noun The junction between root and stem of a plant.
- nog noun A kind of strong ale.
- noise noun Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.
- noli me tangere noun Any of various diseases causing ulcers of the skin and underlying tissues, especially of the face; many of these diseases are now thought…
- nome noun A term in an algebraic expression.
- nomenclature noun A name.
- nominate adj Named, called; nominated, appointed etc.
- nominative case noun The subject of a verb.
- non adv Obsolete form of none.
- non obstante prep notwithstanding, regardless of, despite
- non-con noun A nonconformist.
- nonage noun A payment formerly made to the parish clergy upon the death of a parishioner, consisting of a ninth of the movable goods.
- nonagenary noun Synonym of square or quadrature, a rising at a 90 degree angle to the position of another heavenly body, particularly the sun.
- none adv No, not.
- nones noun Alternative form of noon: the sixth hour after dawn; midday (12 pm).
- nonny noun A fool.
- nonplus noun A state of bewilderment or perplexity.
- nonsurety noun Insecurity.
- noodle verb To fool or trick (someone).
- noon noun The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
- normalism noun Normality; A state in which most things are normal.
- north verb To turn or move toward the north.
- Norweyan adj Norwegian
- nose to the grindstone noun Used to form idioms meaning "to force someone to work hard or to focus intensely upon their work".
- nosebleed noun Nerd; geek; dork.
- notable adj Useful; profitable.
- note noun A list of items or of charges; an account.
- noter noun One who takes notice.
- nother pron Another.
- notice verb To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably.
- notify verb To make (something) known.
- notion noun Sense; mind.
- notobranchiate adj Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata, an obsolete subdivision of nudibranches having cerata on their back, roughly equivalent to suborder…
- notorious adv Synonym of notoriously.
- nott adj Bald.
- nought adj Good for nothing; worthless.
- noun substantive noun A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of…
- nourish noun A nurse.
- novel noun A novelty; something new.
- novelism noun novelty, innovation
- novelist noun An innovator; one who introduces something new; one who favors novelty.
- novene adj Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary.
- novum noun A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.
- now adv Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
- noy noun Annoyance.
- noyade verb To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
- noyance noun Nuisance.
- nub noun The innermost section of a chrysalis in a silk cocoon.
- nucha noun The spinal cord.
- nucleobranch adj Belonging to the Nucleobranchiata, a obsolete order of molluscs that have the gills packed in the shell along with the heart, such sea…
- nuel adj Prone; tending to.