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 83 of 105: from “sea apple” to “servage”.
- sea apple noun A sea urchin.
- sea bear noun A sea urchin.
- sea calf noun Synonym of common seal (Phoca vitulina).
- sea cornet noun A whelk.
- sea horse noun A hippopotamus.
- sea pike noun The European hake
- sea star noun A star used for navigation or guidance at sea.
- seam noun Grease; tallow; lard.
- seaplane tender noun a ship designed to tend to the needs of seaplanes, floatplanes and flying boats at sea, for resupply, refueling, sometimes including…
- searce noun A sieve; a strainer.
- search verb To probe or examine (a wound).
- searcher noun An inspector of leather.
- season noun That which gives relish; seasoning.
- seasonable adj Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
- seat verb To rest; to lie down.
- seating noun Haircloth.
- seatment noun The location where a person, facility, or community is established; settlement.
- seave noun A rush (the plant).
- secle noun A century.
- second noun Aid; assistance; help.
- second mourning noun A style of dress dictated by etiquette to be allowable after strict mourning dress is no longer required.
- secondarily adv Secondly; in the second place.
- secret adj Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
- secretary noun Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
- secrete adj Separated.
- secretist noun A dealer in secrets or arcana.
- sect noun A cutting; a scion.
- secure verb To plight or pledge.
- security noun Carelessness; negligence.
- sedate verb To make (someone or something) calm or tranquil; to assuage, to calm, to soothe.
- sedentary adj Inactive; motionless; sluggish; tranquil.
- sedge noun Obsolete spelling of siege.
- sedilia noun A series of seats, typically three, often recessed into the wall, on the south side of the chancel or choir, reserved for the use of…
- seducement noun Seduction.
- see the elephant verb To witness something unexpected and awe-inspiring.
- seedness noun Seedtime.
- seek verb To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
- seel adj Good; fortunate; opportune; happy.
- seem verb To befit; to beseem.
- seeming noun Apprehension; judgement.
- seemless adj Unseemly; unfit; indecorous.
- seethe verb To boil (something); especially, to cook (food) by boiling or stewing; also, to keep (something) boiling.
- seg noun A castrated farm animal.
- seigniorize verb To preside, hold sway.
- seisin noun The act of taking possession.
- seize verb To fasten, fix.
- seizure noun A retention within one's grasp or power; possession; ownership.
- sejunction noun The act of disjoining, or the state of being disjoined.
- seld noun A seat, throne.
- sele noun Happiness, fortune.
- self pron Himself, herself, itself, themself, themselves; that specific (person mentioned).
- self-abuse noun Self-deception.
- self-sufficient adj Overconfident in one's own abilities; arrogant.
- sell noun A seat or stool.
- sellary noun A male prostitute.
- semblable adj similar
- semblably adv In a similar way; similarly.
- semblance noun The chance of something happening; likelihood, probability.
- semblant noun One's outward appearance.
- semblative adj Resembling.
- semble verb To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
- semen contra noun A strong aromatic bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of…
- semi-ape noun A lemur.
- Semi-Saxon adj Relating to Late Old English and early Middle English, the form of the English language belonging to the period from 1100 to either c.…
- seminal noun A seed.
- seminary noun Seminal state or polity.
- seminude adj Partially exposed.
- semioviparous adj Imperfectly viviparous; giving birth to immature young that finish developing outside the mother's body.
- semitertian adj Having a paroxysm every day, and a second stronger one every two days
- senator noun An important church official.
- senatory adj Senatorial.
- sene noun Senna.
- senior noun An elder or presbyter in the early Church.
- seniory noun Position as lord, lordship; primacy.
- sensibilities noun Feelings of gratitude.
- sensibility noun An emotional sense or understanding of something.
- sensible noun Sensation; sensibility.
- sensitive plant noun An organism thought to be intermediate between plants and animals; a zoophyte.
- sensory noun An organ or faculty of sense.
- sentence verb To utter sententiously.
- sententious adj Full of meaning.
- sentinel noun A private soldier.
- separable adj Such that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root.
- separate verb To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
- separatory noun An apparatus used in separating, such as a separating funnel.
- separatrix noun Synonym of decimal point, which replaced such marks.
- sepose verb To set apart.
- septentrion noun The north or northern regions.
- septiferous adj Conveying putrid poison.
- septuary noun Something composed of seven elements.
- sepult verb To bury or inter.
- sequacious adj Likely to follow or yield to physical pressure; easily shaped or molded.
- sequel noun A person's descendants.
- sequent adj That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
- sere adj Of fabrics: threadbare, worn out.
- sermocination noun The making of speeches or sermons; sermonizing.
- sermon verb To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
- serpent verb To wind or meander
- serpentigenous adj Bred of a serpent
- servage noun Servitude, bondage.