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 90 of 105: from “step short” to “strippet”.
- step short verb To diminish the length or rapidity of the step of a march in a military drill according to the established rules.
- stepchild noun A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
- stepper noun A prison treadmill.
- stercorate noun excrement; dung
- stercory noun excrement; dung
- stereome noun sclerenchyma
- sterling noun Synonym of pennyweight (“a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, or ¹⁄₂₀ of a troy ounce”)
- stern verb To steer, to direct the course of (a ship).
- sterquilinous adj Pertaining to a dunghill
- steven noun A request, petition, prayer, or command.
- stew noun A cooking-dish used for boiling; a cauldron.
- stewish adj Suiting a stew (brothel), i.e. lewd or lascivious
- stibbler noun One who cuts the handfuls left by the reaper.
- stibioferrite noun Obsolete name for a mixture of different minerals that are primarily a mixture of bindheimite and jarosite.
- stibiolite noun Obsolete name for the amorphous, pale yellow secondary antimony oxide now known as the mineral stibiconite.
- stibium noun antimony
- stich noun A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet, especially a verse of Scripture.
- stick noun An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
- stickle verb To act as referee or arbiter; to mediate.
- sticky noun Wax.
- stigme noun Anglicised form of stigma
- stiletto noun A beard trimmed into a pointed form.
- still adj Constant; continual.
- stillicidium noun A morbid trickling.
- stilling noun A stillion.
- stillstand noun A standstill.
- stilper noun A person who walks with long strides.
- stimulative noun Something having a stimulating effect; a stimulant, an incentive.
- stimulism noun The theory of medical practice which regarded life as dependent upon stimulation, or excitation, and disease as caused by excess or…
- stinkard noun Any of various malodorous animals.
- stint verb To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
- stipellus noun A small stipule or stipule‑like appendage, especially in liverworts.
- stipend verb To provide (someone) with a stipend (an allowance, a pension, a salary, etc.).
- stipendary adj Of or pertaining to a stipend.
- stir verb To disturb, to disrupt.
- stirrage noun The act of stirring
- stitch noun A contortion, or twist.
- stith noun An anvil; a stithy.
- stock noun A cover for the legs; a stocking.
- stockjob verb To engage in speculative or underhanded trading in stocks or securities, often with an implication of sharp dealing or manipulation.
- stog verb To walk with a heavy or clumsy gait; to plod.
- stoga noun a type of cigar popular in the United States in the latter half of the nineteenth century.
- stoke verb To poke, pierce, thrust.
- stomach verb To be angry.
- stomachal noun A stomachic.
- stomacher noun A type of men's waistcoat.
- stomachful adj sullen; obstinate; perverse
- stomaching noun resentment
- stomapod noun Any of the Stomapoda, a formerly used order of crustaceans corresponding to order Stomatopoda of mantis shrimp.
- stond noun An impediment, obstacle or hindrance
- stone noun A mirror, or its glass.
- stone jug noun A prison.
- stonify verb To petrify (as a mineral, to harden).
- stook noun A handkerchief.
- stool pigeon noun A decoy used in a crooked gambling game.
- stop verb To punctuate.
- storehouse noun A mass or quantity laid up.
- storey noun A building; an edifice.
- story noun History.
- stot noun An inferior horse.
- stound noun An hour.
- stoundmeal adv At times; at intervals
- stoup noun A bucket.
- stour adj Resolute; unyielding.
- stout adj Bold, strong-minded.
- stow intj A cry used by falconers to call their birds back down to hand.
- straight adj Stretched out; fully extended.
- strain verb To hold tightly, to clasp.
- strait verb To confine; put to difficulties.
- straitly adv Closely; intimately.
- strake verb To stretch.
- stramineous adj Pertaining to or made of straw; having little value, insubstantial.
- strange verb To alienate; to estrange.
- strange woman noun A harlot.
- stranger verb To estrange; to alienate.
- strapping adj (of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.
- stratagem noun A violent deed.
- stratosphere noun Collectively, those layers of the Earth’s crust which primarily comprise stratified deposits.
- straught adj Insane, mad, distraught.
- straw verb To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
- straw shoe noun A professional false witness hired by an unscrupulous attorney. Such a man would frequent the vicinity of a courthouse and show his…
- streak verb To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
- stremma noun The dunam, the Turkish unit of land area derived from the Greek unit.
- strength verb To strengthen (all senses).
- streptothrix noun Any of the former genus Streptothrix of bacilli, having long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted. Some…
- stress noun Obsolete form of distress.
- stretch verb To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
- stretcher noun A penis, especially a long penis.
- stricture noun Strictness.
- strife noun That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
- strike noun Fullness of measure; the whole amount produced at one time.
- strike back verb To send (light, heat, a substance) in the direction of its source.
- strike in verb To take action; to become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action.
- strike me lucky intj Exclamation for good luck while making a bargain.
- strike sail verb To acknowledge one's inferiority (to another person); to abate pretension.
- striker noun A harpoon.
- string up verb To die by hanging.
- stringer noun A libertine; a wencher.
- strip verb To pass; to get clear of; to outstrip.
- strippet noun A small stream.