| Alawite | = Alawi n. | 1922 | Go To Quotation |
| Alexandra | a long (often artificial) ringlet or curl, esp. one dropping from behind one ear and… | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| anachronous | Involving anachronism; out of proper chronological position, out of date. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| auntship | = aunthood n. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| Bass | Bass's ale or beer, the ‘India Pale Ale’ or ‘Bitter Beer’ manufactured by Messrs. Bass &… | 1849 | Go To Quotation |
| bricken | Of brick. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| briolette | A pear-shaped diamond, having facets cut in all directions. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| broderie anglaise | Open embroidery on linen, cambric, etc. Also ellipt., broderie. | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| Broken Hill | Used attrib. with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil remains found at… | 1921 | Go To Quotation |
| caddess | A female cad. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| causeuse | A small sofa on which two persons can sit. | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| centenarial | Of or pertaining to a centenary. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| cheekiness | ‘Cheeky’ quality, cool presumption, effrontery, impudence. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| confederalist | A member of a confederation. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| contributress | A female (literary) contributor. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| Cubism | An important early twentieth-century revolutionary pictorial movement arising out of… | 1911 | Go To Quotation |
| elephanticide | The killing of an elephant. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| Gallup | Used attrib. (chiefly in Gallup poll) to denote an assessment of public opinion… | 1940 | Go To Quotation |
| Garde Mobile | A French military force, now chiefly engaged in police activity; also (usu. with lower-case initials), a member of this force. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| Gardner | Used attrib. and absol. to designate a type of machine gun invented by Gardner, which has two to five barrels side by side. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Garibaldi | A kind of blouse worn by women, originally made of a bright red stuff, in imitation of… | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| Grangerize | trans. To illustrate (a book) by the addition of prints, engravings, etc., especially such as have been cut out of other books. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| grooveless | Having no grooves. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| harmonium | A keyboard instrument, the tones of which are produced by free metal ‘reeds’… | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| havel | ? A heald or heddle. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| havil | A small kind of crab. | 1857 | Go To Quotation |
| kamerad | Comrade, companion: the exclamation used as an appeal for quarter by a German-speaking… | 1914 | Go To Quotation |
| kinetheodolite | A telescope used to follow the path of a projectile, aircraft, or the like, and mounted… | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| lose | An instance of losing (a race). lose bet, lose game, one in which the loser of the game wins the stakes. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| loud-hailer | A megaphone or other device for amplifying the voice, especially as used at sea. Also transf. and attrib. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| mushroomer | A person who gathers mushrooms. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| nanity | The condition of being abnormally deficient or underdeveloped in a particular characteristic. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| nobbling | The action of nobble v. in various senses. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| non-unionist | That does not belong to or support a trade union. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| ostreal | Of or relating to oysters. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| ping | To make a short, resonant, high-pitched (usually metallic) ringing sound; to emit such a… | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| Polacanthus | A genus of nodosaurid dinosaurs characterized by large bony spines that were probably… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| preachiness | The quality or state of being preachy; an inclination or tendency to preach; a preaching manner or style. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| professionalized | Rendered professional; made into a profession. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| punted | Of a river: that has many punts on it. | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| pyroleter | A kind of fire extinguisher, used esp. on ships, in which solutions of hydrochloric… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| recce | = reconnaissance n.; a survey of this kind. Cf. recco n., recon n. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| recuperance | Recuperation. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| sax-horn | The name given to a group of brass musical instruments of the trumpet kind, invented by… | 1844 | Go To Quotation |
| Seraskierate | The War Office at Constantinople. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| slopper | A dealer in slop-clothing. | 1854 | Go To Quotation |
| sloyd | A system of manual instruction or training in elementary woodwork, etc., originally developed and taught in Sweden. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| soldierliness | The quality of being soldierly. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| Speclette | A pair of spectacles that folds at the bridge (see quot. 1962). | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| stokerless | Without a stoker. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| superreality | Heightened or transcendent reality; spec. = surreality n. at surreal adj. Derivatives. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| swelter | A sweltering condition. Also in phr. (slang) to do a swelter, to perspire. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| talkee | = talkee-talkee n. 2. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| tankodrome | An area where military tanks are kept. | 1918 | Go To Quotation |
| telecine | The broadcasting of cinematographic film on television, or its conversion into… | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| unheed | trans. To pay no heed to, to disregard. (Cf. unheeding adj. 2.) | 1847 | Go To Quotation |
| unhelpable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| verism | The literary or artistic style practised or advocated by the verists. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
