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 70 of 105: from “picnic” to “plumbery”.
- picnic noun An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.
- picromel noun A colourless viscous substance having a bittersweet taste, formerly supposed to be the essential principle of bile, but later identified as…
- pictural noun A picture.
- piddle verb Synonym of peck: to attack or eat with a beak.
- pie noun Magpie.
- piece noun A castle; a fortified building.
- piece of goods noun A person, especially one with undesirable flaws or other notable characteristics.
- piecer noun A child employed in a cotton mill or spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
- pieman noun The man who called heads or tails in street gambling games of coin tossing.
- piepowder noun Chiefly in court of piepowders, etc. (sense 2): a traveller, particularly one on foot; a wayfarer; specifically, a travelling merchant.
- pig noun A sixpence.
- pig iron noun An iron plate which is hung between a piece of meat and the fire used to cook it to prevent the meat from burning if the fire is too hot.
- pig's whisper noun A low or inaudible whisper.
- pigeonhole noun A seat in the top row of the gallery of a theatre.
- pigeonholes noun An outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets (probably small compartments).
- pigman noun A dealer in crockery.
- pigment noun Wine flavoured with spices and honey.
- pigstick verb To hunt pigs.
- pike noun A pick, a pickaxe.
- pilch noun A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.
- pilcher noun One who wears a pilch.
- pile noun The reverse (or tails) of a coin.
- pill verb To peel; to remove the outer layer of hair, skin, or bark.
- pillaloo noun A chorus of sorrow or distress
- piller noun A plunderer or thief.
- pillicock noun A boy or man.
- pimping adj Puny; sickly.
- pin noun A mood, a state of being.
- pinch verb To be stingy or covetous; to live sparingly.
- pinder noun One who impounds; a poundkeeper.
- pineapple noun A pinecone; the cone of the fir.
- piner noun A torturer.
- pingle noun A small piece of enclosed ground.
- pinic acid noun An acid which is the chief constituent of common resin.
- pink adj Half-shut; winking.
- pinner noun One who pins or impounds cattle; a pinder.
- pip noun A pippin, seed of any kind.
- piper noun A broken-winded hack horse.
- pipeweed noun The redrattle (Pedicularis flammea), a parasitic plant having hollow stems.
- pique noun In pique of honour: a matter, a point.
- pistle noun Synonym of epistle.
- pitch noun Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
- pitcher noun One who puts counterfeit money into circulation.
- pitcher-bawd noun An elder, worn-out, or semi-retired prostitute working in a tavern, who is only desired for fetching pitchers of beer for patrons.
- piteous adj Showing devotion to God.
- pith noun Synonym of diploe (“the thin layer of soft, spongy, or cancellate tissue between the bone plates which constitute the skull”).
- pity noun Piety.
- placable adj Having the effect of pacifying, appeasing or pleasing.
- placard noun A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
- placate adj Placid, peaceful.
- place noun An area to fight: a battlefield or the contested ground in a battle.
- placitum noun A court, or cause in court.
- plack noun A coin used in the Netherlands in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- placket noun A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.
- plage noun A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
- plagiary noun A kidnapper.
- plagiostomous adj Of or pertaining to fish of the former order Plagiostomi, generally corresponding to the sharks, rays, and skates.
- plain verb To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
- plain sailing noun Obsolete spelling of plane sailing (“a technique for navigation using the assumption that the journey occurs over a plane or flat surface…
- planch noun A plank.
- plancher verb To form using planks.
- planetarian noun astrologer
- planetic adj Ever-changing; erratic, turbulent.
- planetical adj Pertaining to the planets and/or their motions.
- plant noun A young tree, vine, shrub, or herb; a sapling.
- plantal adj Belonging to plants.
- plash intj Used to represent the sound made by something hitting the surface of water or some other liquid, or by water or some other liquid hitting…
- plasson noun A mass of undifferentiated anucleate protoplasm supposed to be the simplest structure of living organisms
- plastic noun A sculptor, moulder.
- plat noun A plot, a scheme.
- plate noun Silver or gold, in the form of a coin, or less often silver or gold utensils or dishes.
- platform verb To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
- Platonist noun A platonic lover.
- plausibility noun The quality of deserving applause, praiseworthiness; something worthy of praise.
- plausible adj Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
- plausive adj Applauding; showing praise.
- play pendulum verb To swing or oscillate in the manner of a pendulum.
- pleasance noun Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
- pleasant noun A wit; a humorist; a buffoon.
- pleasantly adv Ludicrously; facetiously.
- plebe noun The plebs, the plebeian class.
- plebeiance noun plebeianism
- plectospondylous adj Of or pertaining to the Plectospondyli, a former suborder of fish having the anterior vertebrae coalesced, such as the carp.
- plenal adj full; complete
- plene adj Full, complete, whole.
- plenteous adj Having plenty; abounding; rich.
- plentiful adj Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
- plenty adj Plentiful.
- pleroma noun Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory…
- plessigraph noun An instrument for the percussion, delineation and measurement of organs of the body, producing a visible record indicating changes in the…
- plethory noun A plethora; a dangerous excess of something.
- plight noun Good health.
- ploat verb To pluck or strip off.
- plod noun A puddle.
- plough verb To fail (a student).
- ploy noun Employment.
- pluck verb To reject (a student) after they fail an examination for a degree.
- plumage noun Feathers which are fed to a hawk to cause it to regurgitate, for the purpose of cleaning its crop; a type of casting.
- plumb verb To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
- plumbery noun The business of a plumber; plumbing