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 7 of 105: from “atrabilious” to “badge”.
- atrabilious adj Having an excess of black bile.
- atrabiliousness noun The state or quality of having an excess of black bile.
- atren verb To run away; escape.
- atrine verb To touch.
- atsake verb To deny.
- atsit verb To remain sitting; stay; abide.
- atstand verb To stand still; remain; stay.
- atstunt verb To bring to an end; put a stop to.
- attach verb To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- attagen noun A grey partridge (Perdix perdix) of Eurasia.
- attain verb To reach (someone) after being behind them.
- attaint adj Convicted, attainted.
- attainture noun A state of being found guilty of an offence.
- attempt verb To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
- attend verb To look after (someone or something); to tend.
- attendance noun Attention paid to something; careful regard.
- attendancy noun Obsolete form of attendance.
- attent noun Attention.
- attentat noun Anything whatsoever, as a ruling, by the judge of a lower court in a matter pending an appeal.
- attest verb To call to witness; to invoke.
- attollent adj Lifting up, raising (said of muscles, especially the levator palpebrae superioris ).
- audient noun A catechumen (“convert to Christianity under instruction before baptism”) in the early Christian Church.
- audit noun A general receptacle or receiver.
- aught verb Obsolete or dialectal form of ought
- august verb To make ripe; ripen.
- aula noun The anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain leading to the lateral ventricles.
- auln noun An ell (unit of measure).
- aunt noun Any elderly woman.
- aura noun A gentle breeze, a zephyr.
- aurelian noun A collector of butterflies.
- auric adj Of, or pertaining to the ear; aural.
- auspice noun Divination from the actions of birds.
- austerity noun Sourness and harshness to the taste.
- austringer noun A keeper of goshawks.
- autem noun A church.
- autem cackler noun A Dissenter; a Protestant who is not a follower of the Established Church (i.e. Church of England, Church of Scotland, etc).
- autem gogler noun A religious- or spiritual-based con artist or scam operator.
- autem mort noun A married woman.
- authentic adj Authoritative.
- authenticity noun The quality of being authentic (of established authority).
- author noun Principal; the primary participant in a crime.
- autism noun A diagnosis involving a pathological tendency to engage in self-centered fantasy thinking, historically considered a symptom of insanity or…
- autographometer noun An instrument on wheels for recording the topography and height changes of any route over which it is drawn or propelled.
- autospray noun A medicine provided in the form of a spray for topical application.
- auxesis noun Arrangement of a series in ascending order.
- auxiliar adj auxiliary
- avail noun Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.
- avale verb To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall
- avant-garde noun The vanguard of an army or other force.
- avaunt noun A vaunt; a boast.
- avel verb To pull away.
- avenge verb To take vengeance.
- aventure noun accident; chance; adventure
- aver verb To avouch, prove, or verify the existence or happening of (something), or to offer to do so.
- average noun Customs duty or similar charge payable on transported goods.
- averse verb To turn away.
- aversion noun The act of turning away from an object.
- aviator noun An experimenter in aviation.
- avocation noun A calling away; a diversion.
- avocative adj Calling off.
- avoid verb To make empty; to clear.
- avoidance noun The act of annulling; annulment.
- avoirdupois noun Merchandise.
- avolate verb To escape; to dissipate into the air.
- avouch noun evidence; declaration
- avow noun avowal
- avowance noun An act of avowing; an avowal.
- avowry noun Avowal (open affirmation or admission).
- await noun A waiting for; ambush.
- awayward adv Turned aside.
- awe noun A bucket (blade) attached to water wheels.
- aweless adj Inspiring no awe.
- awf noun An elf.
- awful adj Terror-stricken.
- awfully adv Fearfully.
- awk adj Odd; out of order; perverse.
- awkly adv In an unlucky or perverse manner.
- awrath verb Anger; enrage.
- axle noun Shoulder.
- ayel noun A grandfather.
- azotic adj Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote
- azulmic acid noun A black substance deposited during the spontaneous decomposition of hydrocyanic acid, and resembling ulmic acid.
- baal noun A Catholic or Orthodox icon of a saint.
- babish verb To make or treat as babish.
- Babylonian adj Roman Catholic (with reference to e.g. Revelation 14–18).
- Babylonish adj Pertaining to Rome and papal power.
- babymaker noun A dollmaker.
- baccated adj Set or adorned with pearls.
- bachelor noun An unmarried woman.
- back noun That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
- back house noun Alternative form of backhouse: any outbuilding; an outhouse.
- back up verb To run a printing press in reverse.
- back- prefix False; pseudo-.
- backed adj Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
- backfriend noun A person who pretends to be someone's friend; a false friend, a secret enemy.
- backside noun The back side of a page: a verso.
- backward adv In the past.
- backwardation noun In the London Stock Exchange: a fee paid by a seller on settlement day either to the buyer or to a third party who lends stock, when the…
- backworm noun Synonym of filanders (“a disease of hawks”).
- badge noun A brand on the hand of a thief, etc.