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 76 of 105: from “quod” to “realty”.
- quod verb Quoth.
- quoin noun A form of wedge used to prevent casks from moving.
- quotation noun A quota, a share.
- quotient noun A quotum or quota.
- rabble noun A bewildered or meaningless string of words.
- race verb To pass down certain phenotypic traits to offspring.
- rachiglossan noun Any member of the Rachiglossa, a former classification that included a number of carnivorous marine neogastropod families.
- rachis noun The spinal column, or the vertebrae of the spine.
- rack verb To alternately concatenate two words to magical effect.
- racketer noun One who is dissipated and given to carousing.
- rackless adj heedless, regardless, careless
- rade noun Obsolete spelling of road.
- radiate verb To broadcast by radio.
- radicality noun Germinal principle; source; origination.
- radicate verb To take root; to become established.
- radicative adj causing to take root, establishing
- radio star noun A discrete astronomical radio source
- radiology noun The use of radioactive substances in diagnosis and treatment (which today is the province of nuclear medicine).
- radiophonic adj Of or pertaining to the radiophone.
- radium verb To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium.
- raffle noun A game of dice in which the player who throws three of the same number wins all the stakes.
- rag noun A banknote.
- rag-shop noun A bank (financial institution).
- rage verb To enrage.
- raggie adj ragged; rough
- raggy adj Foggy, misty (and typically cold), with drizzling rain.
- ragman noun A document having many names or seals, such as a papal bull.
- rail noun An item of clothing; a cloak or other garment; a dress.
- railroad sickness noun A condition of fatigue, irritability, etc. said to have been caused by travelling on the new railways and seeing objects pass at high speed.
- raise verb To call up the forces of, to raise the troops from.
- rake up verb To cover up, to hide (like covering live embers by raking ashes over them).
- ralph noun A raven.
- ramage adj of a person or thing: wild; untamed
- rammel noun Refuse matter.
- rammish adj rank, foul, or lascivious.
- ramp verb To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.
- ramshackle verb To ransack.
- rand verb To rant; to storm.
- random noun Speed, full speed; impetuosity, force.
- randy noun An impudent beggar.
- rangale noun The ranks or body of an army.
- range verb To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over.
- rangeable adj Arrangeable; classifiable.
- ranger noun That which separates or arranges; a sieve.
- rangle verb To range about in an irregular manner.
- rank adj Strong in growth; growing with vigour or rapidity, hence, coarse or gross.
- rankness noun Exuberance, excessiveness.
- ransack verb To look for or seek out (someone).
- ransom verb To deliver, especially in context of sin or relevant penalties.
- ranter noun A jovial fellow.
- rantipole adj Rude; unruly.
- rape adv Quickly; hastily.
- rapid adj Happy.
- rappel verb To call back a hawk.
- rapper noun A sword.
- rapt verb To transport or ravish.
- raptor noun One who ravishes or plunders.
- rapture noun The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
- rapturist noun A religious enthusiast or zealot.
- rare adj Early.
- rascaille noun A rascal.
- rascette noun The wrist.
- rase noun An act of cutting, scraping, or scratching; also, an erasure.
- rash verb To forcefully move or push (someone or something) in a certain direction.
- rasure noun Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
- rat verb To tear, rip, rend.
- rate noun The worth of something; value.
- rathe adv Quickly.
- rather adj Prior; earlier; former.
- rational adj synonymous replacement for "condensed" in condensed formula.
- ratten verb To sabotage machinery or tools as part of an industrial dispute, particularly the tools of a workman who went against the union.
- rattery noun apostasy; traitorousness
- rattle verb To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise.
- rattle off verb To rail at; to scold.
- rauening adj Obsolete typography of ravening.
- rave verb To rush wildly or furiously.
- ravel verb To destroy or ruin (something), like unravelling fabric.
- raven noun A person who brings bad news or makes pessimistic predictions.
- ravener noun One who, or that which, ravens or plunders.
- ravin adj Ravenous.
- ravined adj Ravenous.
- ravissant adj Ravishing; exquisite.
- raw adj Not covered; bare; bald.
- rawk noun A mark.
- ray noun Sight; perception; vision; from an old theory of vision, that sight was something which proceeded from the eye to the object seen.
- rayon noun A ray or beam of light.
- raze noun A slight wound; a scratch; also, a cut, a slit.
- razzmatazz noun Energy, excitement, vigor.
- re-view verb Obsolete spelling of review.
- reach noun An article to obtain an advantage.
- reacher noun An exaggeration
- read verb To think, believe; to consider (that).
- read for press verb To read and inspect a text in order to locate errors prior to printing or publication; to proofread.
- reader noun A wallet or pocketbook.
- reading book noun A book of church lessons; a lectionary.
- real noun A realist.
- reality noun Loyalty; devotion.
- realize verb To have an actual or real experience of (something).
- realm noun The spiritual state of which God is the head; the Kingdom of Heaven.
- realty noun Reality.