| Alician | Resembling or characteristic of the character Alice (see Alice n.) or the books in… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| ambulancier | A man in charge of, or attached to, an ambulance. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| anarchistic | Belonging to, characteristic of, or adhering to anarchists or anarchism. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| antiseptically | In an antiseptic manner, by means of antiseptics. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| areality | Condition in respect of area. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| asphyxiator | An asphyxiating agent; an apparatus for extinguishing fire by the agency of carbonic acid gas, etc. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| assemble | The second beat of the drum, or other signal, ordering soldiers to strike their tents and… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| attorneydom | The body of attorneys collectively or abstractly. (Contemptuous.) | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| attributal | Of the nature of an attribute. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| benzenoid | Derived from, related to, or pertaining to benzene. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| bookiness | Bookishness. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| bootyless | Void of booty. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| bottekin | A kind of small fancy boot. Cf. bootikin n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| Brum | A slang contraction of Brummagem n. adj.; attrib. ‘counterfeit, not genuine’. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| by-election | The choice of a parliamentary representative at a time other than that of a General Election. Also attrib. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| cablegraph | | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| calibred | Of or having calibre: chiefly in compar. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| capitalism | The possession of capital or wealth; an economic system in which private capital or wealth… | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| chokage | A choked up state; obstruction, congestion. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| choppy | Given to change or veer about like the wind; unstable. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| cœlostat | An instrument consisting of a mirror turned by clockwork on an axis parallel to itself and… | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| collectivist | One who adheres to the theory of collectivism. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| communalistic | Of, or relating to, communalism (in various senses). | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| contusion | trans. To affect with contusion, to bruise. (Only in pass.) | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| copering | The trading of the ‘copers’ in the North Sea: see coper n. Also attrib. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| crewless | Without a crew. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| defeminize | trans. To deprive of femininity. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| demobilize | trans. To reduce from a mobilized condition; to disband (forces) so as to make them not liable to be moved in military service. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| deratization | The expulsion or extermination of rats. | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| dill | The space underneath the cabin floor in a wooden fishing vessel, into which the bilge-water drains. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| discohere | Electr. = decohere v. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| dossy | Stylish, smart. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| emancipatress | A female emancipator; one who advocates the ‘emancipation’ of her sex. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| enthetic | Put in; introduced from without. Said of ‘diseases produced by inoculation or… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| entrain | trans. To put into a railway-train. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| estuarial | Of or pertaining to an estuary. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| fiddley | The iron framework round the deck opening that leads to the stoke-hole of a… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| frowst | intr. To take pleasure in staying in a warm, close, ‘fuggy’ atmosphere. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| gasolier | An ornamental frame to hold gaslights, usually hung from the ceiling of a room. Cf. gas chandelier n. at gas n. adj. 3. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| germanium | A chemical element, atomic number 32, which is a hard, silvery-grey metalloid of the carbon group. Symbol Ge. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| giveable | Capable of yielding. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| governorate | The office of governor. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| heliograph | trans. To communicate by heliograph: see heliograph n. 4. Also with obj. clause and absol. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| hydrocarbonic | Relating to, or of the nature of, a hydrocarbon; in quot. 1807, obtained from carburetted hydrogen: see hydrocarbonate n. 1. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| inhumanize | trans. To render inhuman, to make cruel. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| insanitary | Not sanitary or healthful; injurious to health. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| irade | A written decree issued by the Sultan of Turkey. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| irredentism | The policy or programme of the Irredentists. Also in extended use: any policy of… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| irredentist | In Italian politics (after 1878), an adherent of the party which advocated the recovery… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| jay-hawk | trans. To harry as a jay-hawker; to ‘raid’. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| juge | A judge. juge d'instruction, an examining magistrate, a police magistrate. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| knubby | Full of ‘knubs’, or of the form of a ‘knub’. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| lampoonist | A writer of lampoons. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| melanized | Of a person: having a dark skin colour. rare. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| mosking | The practice of pawning articles for more than their true value. Cf. moskeneer v. | 1902 | Go To Quotation |
| multicharge | Designating a gun which has a series of powder chambers along the bore. Now hist. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| necrologue | An obituary notice or article. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| over-dredge | trans. To dredge (an oyster bed) too much, so as to remove too many oysters. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| pan-Islamist | Of, relating to, or advocating pan-Islamism. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| pari-mutuel | Horse Racing. A form of betting in which those backing the first three horses divide the… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| patterner | A person who draws, arranges, or makes patterns. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| petroleuse | A woman or girl who uses petrol to set fire to a building or other property; spec. any of… | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| phalansterist | = phalansterian n. b. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| philatelistic | Of, relating to, or engaged in philately. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| picnicky | Of, relating to, or reminiscent of a picnic; characterized by picnics. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| piebaldism | The condition of being piebald; spec. (Med.) an inherited (autosomal… | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| Pinnipedian | = pinniped adj. 2. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| quadricentennial | A four-hundredth anniversary; a celebration of such an anniversary. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| rationment | The act or process of rationing. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| red leader | A person employed to paint the iron parts of a ship with red lead. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| salvationist | With capital initial. A member of the Salvation Army. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| scalped | Cultivated on a ‘scalp’. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| smacking | attrib. Owning or employing smacks. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| smig | (See quot. 1880.) Also attrib., as smig bait, smig herring. | 1879 | Go To Quotation |
| solarist | One who holds the theory of solar myths, esp. to an excessive degree. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| solidarize | trans. or refl. To bring to solidarity. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| spider | trans. To catch or entrap after the manner of the spider. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| telephotograph | A picture or image electrically reproduced at a distance, a telectrograph; also, an apparatus for doing this. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| turtle-back | An arched structure over the deck of a steamer at the bow, and often also at the stern, to protect it from damage by a heavy sea. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
