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 85 of 105: from “shorling” to “skew”.
- shorling noun The skin of a sheep after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep.
- short verb To shorten.
- short-fetched adj shallow
- shorter noun One who makes a dishonest profit by clipping and filing coins.
- shot verb To feed small shot to (a horse), as a fraudulent means of disguising broken-windedness.
- shot-clog noun One who is tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
- shout verb To treat with shouts or clamor.
- shovel hat noun During the period of the popularity of shovel hats as clerical hats: any ecclesiastic, particularly one in traditional garb.
- show noun A pale blue flame at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of firedamp.
- show-glass noun A glass that displays objects; a mirror.
- shower noun A battle, an attack; conflict.
- shred noun A tailor.
- shrew verb To beshrew; to curse.
- shrewd adj Portending, boding.
- shriek owl noun The swift; so called from its cry.
- shrieve verb Obsolete form of shrive.
- shrift noun Forgiveness given by a priest after confession; remission.
- shroudy adj Affording shelter.
- shrove verb To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
- shrub verb To lop; to prune.
- shruff noun Light, dry wood, or material used for fuel.
- shug verb To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch.
- shunt verb To turn aside or away; to divert.
- sibred noun Relationship; kindred.
- sice noun The number six in a game of dice.
- sicker adj Certain.
- sickerness noun the state, condition, or quality of being certain; certainty; assurance.
- sickless adj Free from sickness.
- sickly adj Marked by the occurrence of illness or disease (of a period of time).
- sicle noun A shekel.
- side verb To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
- sideration noun The state of being siderated, or planet-struck.
- siderite noun Magnetic iron ore; lodestone.
- siege noun A seat, especially as used by someone of importance or authority.
- sieve noun A kind of coarse basket.
- sight noun The instrument of seeing; the eye.
- sightful adj Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous
- signation noun A sign given, especially of a cross
- signature noun A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red…
- signaturist noun A holder of the doctrine of signatures impressed upon objects, indicative of character or qualities.
- signifer adj Bearing signs.
- signiorize verb To exercise dominion; to seigniorize.
- silly adj Good; pious.
- sillyhood noun A caul (part of the amnion that encloses a baby's head at birth).
- siluer noun Obsolete typography of silver.
- silver mail noun Rent that has been paid in money.
- simar noun A light covering; a cloak or mantle.
- similiter noun The form by which either party, in pleading, accepts the issue tendered by his/her opponent; a joinder in issue.
- simper verb To glimmer; to twinkle.
- simple noun A physician.
- simplex adj Synonym of heterozygous (“of an organism: having two different alleles in a given gene”).
- simular adj false; specious; counterfeit
- simulate adj Feigned; pretended.
- Sinaic adj Synonym of East Asian, with especial focus on Chinese people and culture: of or related to the Sinosphere.
- since conj When or that.
- sindon noun A fine thin linen muslin or cambric cloth.
- sinew noun A nerve.
- sing small verb To sing softly.
- single adj Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
- single money noun change, small coins
- single time noun A syllable, considered as a metrical unit or unit of time.
- singler adj Singular.
- singly adv Singularly; peculiarly.
- singsong verb To compose poor poetry.
- singular adj Engaged in by only one on a side; single.
- singularist noun One who affects singularity.
- singularity noun Anything singular, rare, or curious.
- singultus noun A fit of gasping or convulsive breathing.
- sinister adj Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest.
- sinople noun A shade of red; sinoper.
- siphonate noun One of the former group Siphonata, a lamellibranch with a siphon.
- siphonobranchiate adj Having a siphon or siphons to convey water to the gills (said of gastropods of the former order Siphonobranchiata.
- siphonostomatous adj Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.
- siphonostome noun Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.
- sir-reverence noun excrement
- sire noun A father; the head of a family; the husband.
- sirky noun A kind of unplaited matting formed by laying the fine cylindrical culms from the upper part of the grass Tripidium bengalense side by side…
- sirrah noun A term of address to an inferior male or more commonly a child. A modern-day equivalent would be "little man".
- sise noun six
- siserary noun A severe rebuke or scolding.
- sister verb To be sister to; to resemble closely.
- Sister Minor noun Synonym of Poor Clare: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.
- sit verb To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.
- sit down verb To take up residence in or settle (an area).
- sit-upons noun Trousers.
- sith noun A journey, way.
- sithe verb To journey, travel, wayfare.
- sithen conj From or since the time that.
- sithence adv Thereupon; subsequently, afterwards.
- six noun Small beer sold at six shillings per barrel.
- sixpence noun The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
- sixty-eleven adj Synonym of seventy-one.
- size noun An assize.
- skainsmate noun A messmate; a companion.
- skeet noun A long-handled shovel or scoop.
- skeg noun A sort of wild plum (Prunus spinosa or Prunus domestica subsp. insititia (syn. Prunus institia)).
- skein noun Synonym of spireme (“the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single…
- skelder noun A vagrant; a cheat.
- skellum noun A scoundrel.
- skew noun One of the stones placed over the end of a gable, or forming the coping of a gable.