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 84 of 105: from “servant” to “shore”.
- servant verb To subject.
- service noun Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
- serviette noun A lazy Susan.
- servitude noun Servants collectively.
- sesquialter noun Synonym of sesquialtera, a 1½ note.
- sesquitertia noun A ratio of 4 to 3.
- sess verb To lay a tax upon; to assess.
- session noun The act of sitting, or the state of being seated.
- set verb To begin to move; to go forth.
- set down verb To humiliate.
- set out verb To arrange the necessary type into a printing press in preparation to run it.
- set up verb Synonym of compose (To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset)
- set up to oneself verb To set up (compose, typeset) one portion of text that precedes another portion set up by the same typesetter.
- setdown noun A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.
- sett verb Obsolete spelling of set (particularly as a simple past and past participle).
- setter noun A shill bidder at an auction.
- settle noun A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.)
- several adj Separate, distinct; particular.
- sevum preparatum noun Prepared mutton tallow; the internal fat of the abdomen of the sheep, purified by melting and straining and used to make ointments.
- sew noun Broth, gravy.
- sewage noun sewerage.
- sex noun Women; the human female gender and those who belong to it.
- sexagesm noun Synonym of sexagesimal: a sixtieth part of something.
- sext noun An organ stop of two ranks of pipes an interval of a sixth apart.
- sextan adj That recurs on the sixth day
- sextary noun A sacristy.
- sexual adj Pertaining to the female sex.
- sexual orientation noun The process of orientation with regard to a sexual goal or potential partner.
- shab noun Scabies.
- shack noun Grain fallen to the ground and left after harvest.
- shackle verb To combine (a substance) with another substance.
- shade verb To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
- shadow noun A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
- shaft noun The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
- shag adj Hairy; shaggy.
- shagbag noun A shabby person; a worthless or unfortunate person.
- shagged adj Unkempt; clothed in rags; ragged.
- shaggytuft noun A rug made of cotton shag.
- shakefork noun A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
- shaken adj Of a cask: taken to pieces which are then tied up together for transportation.
- shaler noun A girl or young woman.
- shalk noun A servant.
- shall verb To owe.
- shallow adj Not deep in tone.
- shame verb To feel shame, be ashamed.
- shameless adj Not subject to other people’s shaming or reproach.
- shamer noun Something which makes someone feel ashamed.
- shanghai noun A kind of daub.
- shape verb To imagine; to conceive.
- sharawadgi noun A style of landscape gardening or architecture in which rigid lines and symmetry are avoided in favour of an organic appearance.
- share verb To cut; to shear; to cleave; to divide.
- shark verb To steal or obtain through fraud.
- sharp verb To sharpen.
- sharpness noun edge or blade
- shash noun The scarf of a turban.
- shatter verb To scatter about.
- shaver noun An extortionate bargainer; a sharper.
- shaving cloth noun An emery cloth used for shaving wood.
- shaving iron noun A razor.
- sheal noun A shell or pod.
- sheathe verb To abandon or cease (animosity, etc.)
- shebang noun A vehicle.
- shed noun A distinction or dividing-line.
- shed a tear verb To take a dram, or glass of spirits.
- sheep-biter noun A sheepdog that worries (chases or attacks) sheep.
- sheep-silver noun Mica.
- sheeps noun genitive of sheep
- sheepshead noun A foolish person.
- sheer adj Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
- sheerly adv At once.
- shelfy adj Full of strata of rock.
- shell out noun A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.
- shelve verb To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.
- Shemitic adj Semitic
- shend verb To disgrace or put to shame.
- shid noun A piece of firewood four feet long.
- shide noun A piece of wood (a thin board or plank, or a strip of wood split off); a measure of firewood, variously defined as e.g. four feet long and…
- shield noun A toilet seat.
- shield beetle noun Cossyphidae spp., now in the family Tenebrionidae of darkling beetles.
- shift noun A share, a portion assigned on division.
- shig noun A shilling.
- shilf noun straw or reeds.
- shill verb To shell.
- Shillibeer noun A bus (passenger vehicle).
- shiny adj Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
- shipman noun The master of a ship; shiplord.
- shire noun A district or province governed by a person; specifically (Christianity), the province of an archbishop, the see of a bishop, etc.
- shittle adj Unsettled; uneasy; disturbed.
- shive noun A sheave.
- shiver noun A thin slice; a shive.
- shock verb To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter.
- shoehorn noun Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement.
- shoeing-horn noun Anything that facilitates a transaction; that which smooths the way or greases the wheels.
- shoful noun A Hansom cab.
- shole noun Obsolete form of shoal.
- shool noun A shovel.
- shoot verb To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
- shooter sowar noun The rider of a dromedary or swift camel, attached to the establishment of the viceroy on the march, and of other high officials in Upper…
- shoplift noun A shoplifter.
- shore verb To arrive at the shore