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 75 of 105: from “puny” to “quo”.
- puny noun A younger person; a junior.
- pupil noun An orphan who is a minor and under the protection of the state.
- puppet noun A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
- puppetry noun finery; affectation
- puppily adj Befitting a puppy.
- purblind adj Completely blind.
- purchase noun The act or process of seeking and obtaining something (e.g. property, etc.)
- purdah noun A striped cotton cloth which is used to make curtains.
- pure verb To cleanse; to refine.
- pure finder noun Someone who collected dog faeces for sale to tanneries (which used it as a siccative for bookbinding leather). Undertaken by poor people in…
- purgament noun Something excreted or purged; excretion.
- purging noun That which is purged: contamination, a contaminant; refuse; sin; etc.
- purging place noun A body part where excess humors are expelled.
- purport noun A disguise; a covering.
- purpose verb To discourse.
- purpre noun purple
- purse verb To steal purses; to rob.
- purser rigged and parish damned adj Having joined the United States Navy, either because of destitution or in order to flee problems on land.
- pursuit noun prosecution
- purtenance noun possession (something that belongs to someone)
- purvey verb To prepare in advance (for or to do something); to plan, make provision.
- purveyor noun One who arranges or prepares something; an arranger, an orchestrator, a preparer.
- push noun A particular crowd or throng or people.
- put verb To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
- put away verb To fend off, deflect; to dismiss.
- put down verb To set type in lowercase; to switch type from capital to lowercase letters.
- put forth verb To send (someone) out, remove (someone) from a place.
- put in verb To distribute type that is ready for composing.
- put on verb To hurry up; to move swiftly forward.
- put out verb To express.
- putredinous adj Resulting from putrefaction, or partaking in the putrefactive process
- putter-on noun An instigator.
- putting noun Instigation or incitement; enticement.
- puzzle verb To (intentionally) make (something) complicated or confused, and so difficult to resolve or understand; to confuse, to complicate.
- puzzle lock noun A combination lock.
- puzzle-peg noun A piece of wood secured under a dog's jaw to keep the dog's nose away from the ground so that it uses the scent in the air to track its…
- pyrotechny noun The manufacture and use of gunpowder, bombs etc.
- Pythagorean bean noun Synonym of sacred lotus
- pyx verb To place (the host) in a pyx.
- quack verb To make vain and loud pretensions.
- quackle verb To choke.
- quad noun A blank metal block used to fill short lines of type.
- quadrant noun A square or quadrangle.
- quadrat noun A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
- quadrioxalate noun An acid salt of oxalic acid, containing one basic atom and four equivalents of oxalic acid.
- quail noun A prostitute.
- quail pipe noun A woman's tongue
- quaint adj Of a person: cunning, crafty.
- quaintness noun Cunning; craftiness.
- quakebreech noun A coward.
- qualie noun A cauldron.
- qualification noun A quality or attribute.
- quantoid noun The left hand side of a linear differential equation whose right hand side is zero.
- quar noun A quarry.
- quarantine verb To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.
- quarrel verb Followed by at: to disagree with; to take offence.
- quarrier noun Alternative spelling of quariar; quarion.
- quarry noun A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- quart adj Safe, sound; healthy.
- quartary noun Synonym of quartarius, quarter-sextarius, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 0.14 L
- quarter noun Relations between people.
- quarteron noun Obsolete form of quadroon.
- quash verb To crush or dash to pieces.
- quat noun A pustule.
- quatch adj Squat, pudgy, fat.
- quaternity noun Synonym of quarter (“a fourth part”).
- quave verb To quiver or tremble.
- queachy adj Like a queach or thicket; thick, bushy.
- queen verb To act the part of a queen; to behave imperiously; to queen it.
- quell verb To kill.
- quenchcoal noun A person or thing that undermines religious zeal; hence a heartless, uncaring person with respect to religion.
- querier noun A chimney sweep who goes door to door looking for work.
- quest noun A request; a desire; a solicitation.
- question verb To argue; to converse; to dispute.
- questionable adj Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.
- questionist noun A person preparing for, or taking, their final exam at university.
- questman noun One who is legally empowered to look into certain matters, especially abuses of weights and measures.
- queth noun Speech, talk.
- quick adj Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
- quick study noun An actor who is able to learn their lines in a short amount of time.
- quicken verb To make (a drug, liquor, etc.) more effective or stimulating.
- quickset verb To enclose (something) with quickset hedge.
- quilling noun A band of fluted muslin resembling a row of quills.
- quilt verb To beat or thrash.
- Quincy noun A toilet: a fixture for urination and defecation, particularly (humorous) as a personification of the device.
- quine adj Of leaves: arranged in whorls of five.
- quinovatannic acid noun A tannic acid obtained from the bark of Cinchona nova or Cinchona surinamensis, resembling quinotannic acid.
- quinquagenarian noun Synonym of pentecoster: an officer who commands 50 men.
- quinquagenary noun Synonym of pentecoster: an officer who commands 50 men.
- quinquennal noun A position held for 5 years.
- quintary noun A multiple of five.
- quintate verb To seize or destroy one fifth (of something).
- quisby noun A wretch; an idle person.
- quit verb To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
- quitch verb To shake (something); to stir, move.
- quittance verb To acquit; to repay.
- quitter noun Scoria of tin.
- quiver noun A vulva.
- quiz verb To play with a quiz.
- quo verb quoth