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 9 of 105: from “battle” to “bereave”.
- battle noun The main body of an army, as distinct from the vanguard and rear; the battalia.
- battledore noun A child's hornbook for learning the alphabet.
- batty adj Belonging to, or resembling, a bat (mammal).
- bavarese adj Bavarian.
- bawd adj Joyous; riotously gay.
- bawson noun A badger.
- bay noun A berry.
- beadful adj Prayerful.
- beadroll noun A catalogue of people whose souls are to be prayed for.
- beal noun A small inflammatory tumor; pustule.
- bean-belly noun A person who consumes a lot of beans.
- bear verb To carry a burden or burdens.
- bear down verb To maintain one's position against (someone) in a debate; to stand one's ground against.
- bearcat noun A giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, in the family Ursidae).
- beard verb To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
- bearleader noun A captor; also, a guard, a jailer.
- beat noun A precinct.
- beat up verb To attack suddenly; to alarm.
- beaupere noun A father.
- beauty verb To make beautiful.
- beaver eater noun A wolverine.
- beblubbered adj Befouled with blood.
- becall verb To call upon; call forth; challenge.
- becalm verb To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
- becarve verb To cut off.
- becast verb To cover or surround by casting (something) about.
- becatch verb To lay hold of; seize upon.
- because adv For the reason [with that].
- becket noun chough (the bird)
- beclepe verb To complain against; indict; accuse.
- beclip verb To fold in the arms; embrace; clasp.
- become verb To arrive, come (to a place).
- bedeem verb To condemn.
- bedeen adv As a single unit or body; together.
- bedlam noun An insane person; a lunatic; a madman.
- bedo verb To shut; make or put to.
- bedoven adj drenched.
- bedrel adj Bedridden.
- bedrite verb To befoul with ordure; bedirt.
- bedstraw noun Straw placed into a bed.
- bedutch verb To Germanise.
- bee noun A ring or torque; a bracelet.
- beefeater noun One who eats beef; a large, plump person; a well-fed servant.
- beet verb To improve; to mend.
- beetlehead noun A stupid person; a blockhead.
- befall verb To fall.
- befang verb To take hold on; begin or commence upon.
- befight verb To deprive of by fighting.
- befind verb To invent; contrive.
- beforehand adj In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
- beg verb To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.
- beget verb To get or obtain.
- beggary adj beggarly
- bego verb To clothe, dress.
- begrave verb To bury.
- behappen verb To happen to, to befall.
- behave verb To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
- behen noun Behen rubrum or red behen: said in some sources to be Salvia haematodes (now Salvia pratensis subsp. haematodes), but in other sources to…
- behest verb To promise; vow.
- behight verb To vow, promise (someone).
- being noun An abode; a cottage.
- beken verb To make known; reveal.
- belabour verb To labour about; labour over; to work hard upon; to ply diligently.
- belace verb To beat with a strap.
- belay verb To surround; to environ; to enclose.
- belch noun Malt liquor.
- beldame noun A grandmother.
- belead verb To lead away.
- beleave verb To leave behind, abandon.
- belfry noun A movable tower used in sieges.
- Belgic adj Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.
- belie verb To lie around; encompass.
- bell rope noun A lovelock.
- belles-lettres noun The humanities.
- bellower noun A town crier.
- bellowsed adj Deported to a penal colony, transported.
- bellowser noun A sentence of transportation for life.
- belly-god noun A lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton
- belong verb To live in or be from a place.
- belout verb To call (someone) a lout.
- belove verb To please.
- Belyando spew noun An illness afflicting shearers, characterised by vomiting after meals and presumed to have been due to the hard work of shearing bent over…
- bemark verb To mark with the sign of the cross; mark oneself.
- bemean verb To mean; signify; inform.
- bemuse verb To make drunk; to intoxicate.
- ben noun A prayer; a petition.
- bename verb To swear on oath; to solemnly declare; promise; give.
- bencher noun An alderman of a corporation.
- bend noun Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
- bender intj Used to express disbelief or doubt at what one has just heard.
- bendly adj Having a diagonal stripe; bendy.
- bene adj Good.
- benedict adj Having mild and salubrious qualities.
- benefice noun A favour or benefit.
- benefit noun beneficence; liberality
- benettle verb To vex or provoke.
- benighted adj Overtaken by night; especially of a traveller, etc.: caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination.
- benny noun A straw hat.
- benzol noun benzyl alcohol
- bereave verb To take away by destroying, impairing, or spoiling; take away by violence.