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 96 of 105: from “toomongong” to “trepidation”.
- toomongong noun A Malay title, especially known as borne by one of the chiefs of Johor, from whom the island of Singapore was purchased.
- toothful adj Toothsome.
- top intj The signal among tailors and seamstresses for snuffing the candle. The last of them to cry "top" had to snuff the candle.
- tope noun A cannon (weapon).
- topic noun An argument or reason.
- toppy adj Having a top or peak.
- torat verb To tear apart, tear asunder.
- torch noun A cactus with a very elongated body; a ceroid cactus; a torch cactus or torch-thistle.
- torcher noun One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
- tore adj Hard, difficult; wearisome, tedious.
- torment noun A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
- tormentor noun A long meat-fork.
- torpedo noun An explosive device buried underground, to destroy fortifications, troops, or cavalry.
- torpent adj Having no motion or activity; benumbed; torpid.
- torse noun The torso.
- tort adj Twisted.
- tortious adj Wrongful; harmful.
- tortuous adj Injurious; tortious.
- tory-rory adj boisterous, uproarious
- tosh noun Copper; items made of copper.
- tosheroon noun A crown coin; its value
- toss verb To keep in play; to tumble over.
- tot noun A foolish fellow.
- totear verb To tear apart; tear to pieces or shreds; rend.
- tother adj The other (of two).
- totty adj unsteady; dizzy, tottery, or rickety
- touch noun Act or power of exciting emotion.
- touch and go adj Characterized by brief and transitory encounters.
- toupee noun A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
- tour noun A going round; a circuit.
- tourniquet noun A turnstile.
- tout verb To look upon or watch.
- toward adj Promising, likely.
- towel verb To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
- tower verb To soar into.
- towind verb To whirl around; revolve.
- town noun An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor; by extension, the whole of the land which…
- townish adj Pertaining to or inhabiting a town, urban.
- toy noun Love play, amorous dalliance; fondling.
- trace verb To copy; to imitate.
- trachelipod noun One of the Trachelipoda, a former group of mollusks with a spiral shell, and the foot attached to the base of the neck.
- trachelipodous adj of or pertaining to the molluscs of the former order Trachelipoda, that have their foot attached to the neck.
- tract verb To pursue, follow; to track.
- tractable adj Capable of being handled or touched.
- tractile adj Of financial assets: able to be drawn or procured from a place of deposit; liquid.
- trade noun Instruments of any occupation.
- trading adj Frequented by traders.
- tradition verb To transmit by way of tradition; to hand down.
- traducible adj Capable of being derived or propagated.
- traduct noun That which is traduced or translated.
- traductor noun translator.
- traffic island noun An area where rail traffic is low.
- traga noun A more extreme form of dharna, in which the complainant harms or kills himself or some member of his family as a form of vengeance.
- tragic noun A writer of tragedy.
- tragicize verb To speak or write in the manner of a tragedy; to adopt a grandiloquent style.
- train noun The tail of an animal in general.
- traitorly adv Traitorously.
- traject noun A place for passing across; a passage; a ferry.
- tralatitious adj passed around; common
- tram noun The shaft of a cart.
- tramel noun Obsolete spelling of trammel.
- tranquilize verb To become tranquil.
- transcend verb To climb; to mount.
- transcendency noun elevation above the truth; exaggeration
- transcendental noun Synonym of transcendentalist (“one who believes in transcendentalism; a philosopher who asserts that true knowledge is obtained by…
- transcension noun The act of transcending, or surpassing.
- transcorporate verb To transmigrate (transport the soul into another body).
- transcript verb To write a transcript; to transcribe.
- transcription noun A written document.
- transcur verb To run or rove to and fro, to flit
- transformation noun A woman's wig.
- translate verb To cause (a disease or something giving rise to a disease) to move from one body part to another, or (rare) between persons.
- translative adj In the form of a trope; figurative.
- translator noun Synonym of carrier, a person who transports something, now particularly (Roman Catholicism, rare) holy relics.
- transmutation noun Change, alteration.
- transpare verb To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be see-through (literally or figurative)
- transpire verb To perspire.
- transtime verb To change the time of (something).
- transverse adj Not in direct line of descent; collateral.
- trapan noun A person (or occasionally an animal) that traps or tricks another into doing something that benefits them but harms the victim; a…
- trapball noun A game in which a batsman makes a ball hit a trap (device) that sends the ball into the air, where the batsman has to hit it again.
- trape noun A messy or untidy woman.
- travail noun An act of working; labor (US), labour (British).
- travel verb To labour; to travail.
- traverse noun A screen or partition.
- travis noun A wooden frame to confine a horse while the smith is setting his shoes.
- tray noun trouble; annoyance; anger
- tray-trip noun An old game played with dice. It is unknown what the game involved, but it is likely dependent on rolling a 3.
- treacle noun Synonym of cure: an all-powerful curative for some particular affliction.
- tread noun A way; a track or path.
- treasure verb To enrich.
- treasury noun A treasure.
- treat verb To entreat or beseech (someone).
- treatment noun entertainment; treat
- treaty noun The manner or process of treating someone or something; treatment; also, the manner in which someone or something acts or behaves…
- trencher-fed adj Of a hunting dog: lodged at the homes of individual farmers, rather than in kennels, and brought to the hunt as required.
- trencher-man noun A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
- trender noun One who cleans the filth from wool.
- trental noun Synonym of triacontad, any set of thirty things.
- trepidation noun A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the…