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 89 of 105: from “sprite” to “stench”.
- sprite noun Alternative form of spright (“frame of mind, disposition”).
- spruce noun Prussian leather; pruce.
- sprug verb To smarten (make smart).
- sprung adj cracked or strained.
- sprunny adj neat; spruce
- sprunt verb To make quick or convulsive movements; to start, to jump.
- spud noun Anything short and thick.
- spuddle verb To make a lot of fuss about trivial things, as if they were important
- spuddy noun A seller of potatoes.
- spulzie noun plunder; booty
- spunk noun A spark.
- spurgall verb To gall or wound with a spur.
- spurn noun Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.
- spurt noun A shoot; a bud.
- squab verb To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.
- squadron noun A body of troops drawn up in a square.
- squally adj Having unproductive wet spots due to poor drainage.
- squander verb To scatter; to disperse.
- square noun A true measure, standard, or pattern.
- squarer noun Quarreler, wrangler.
- squash intj The sound of something relatively heavy splashing or squelching into water.
- squat noun A sudden or crushing fall.
- squeeze noun A person's neck.
- squilla noun A squill, a sea onion.
- squinance noun The quinsy.
- squire noun A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure.
- squirrelling noun The sport of hunting squirrels.
- squirt verb To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
- ß symbol A ligature representing in italic text.
- St. Hugh's bones noun A shoemaker's tools.
- stable-stand noun The position of a person found standing in the forest with a crossbow or longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with…
- stabulation noun The act of stabling or housing animals.
- stade noun in a journey.
- stag noun A romping girl; a tomboy.
- stagely adj Suited or related to the stage; theatrical.
- staggering bob noun A newborn calf.
- staith noun A shore or a riverbank.
- staithe noun A riverbank
- stale verb To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer).
- stalely adv Of old; long since.
- stalker noun A kind of fishing net.
- stall verb To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
- stallage noun The erection and use of a stall at a fair or market.
- stalworth adj Stalwart.
- stam verb To confound.
- stamina noun The basic elements of a thing; rudimentary structures or qualities.
- staminal adj Of or pertaining to the stamina or basic structure or constitution of a thing.
- stampedo noun Synonym of stampede.
- stance noun A stanza.
- stanch adv Possibly strictly.
- stanchless adj Incapable of being satisfied.
- stand verb To be in some particular state; to have essence or being; to be; to consist.
- stand out verb To maintain, to persist in claiming (that).
- stand with verb To argue or dispute with (especially in the context of haggling or bargaining).
- stander noun A standel.
- standing noun The location on a street where a market trader habitually operates.
- stang noun A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.
- stank adj Weak; worn out.
- staple noun A post; prop; support
- star-reed noun A South American plant, Aristolochia mathewsii syn.Arisolochia fragrantissima used in Peru against dysentery, etc.
- stare verb To stand out; to project; to bristle.
- starfish noun Any many-armed or tentacled sea invertebrate, whether cnidarian, echinoderm, or cephalopod.
- staring adj Sensational, lurid.
- stark adj Hard, firm; obdurate.
- starken adj Stark; complete, absolute.
- starn noun The European starling.
- startle verb To deter; to cause to deviate.
- startup noun A kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people.
- starve verb To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
- state adj Stately.
- stateful adj Full of state; stately.
- station noun The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
- station wagon noun A vehicle (either horse-drawn or motorized) providing transport to and from a railway station for passengers and their luggage.
- stationary noun One who, or that which, is stationary, such as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.
- statism noun Synonym of secularism: subservience of religious issues to political officials and expediency.
- stative adj Of or relating to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters.
- stature noun Statue.
- staunch noun That which stanches or checks a flow.
- staunching noun A stanchion.
- stay noun Hindrance; let; check.
- stay out verb To outstay; to stay longer than.
- stay time noun Something that halts or arrests the passage of time.
- stead verb To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful.
- steam noun Any exhalation.
- steamer noun A steam fire engine, that is, a steam boiler and engine driving a pump, which are all mounted on wheels.
- steaning noun A ford over a river.
- steel verb To back with steel.
- steel wine noun Wine, usually sherry, in which steel filings were placed for a considerable time; once used as a medicine.
- steem noun A gleam of light; a flame.
- steep adj Difficult to access; not easy reached; lofty; elevated; high.
- steer noun A helmsman; a pilot.
- steerless adj Having no rudder.
- steg noun A gander.
- stele noun An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
- stell verb To portray; delineate; display.
- stellation noun The radiation of light.
- stelled adj Firmly placed or fixed.
- stem verb To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- stem-winder noun Something top-notch or first-rate.
- stench verb To cause to emit a disagreeable odour; to cause to stink.