| ambulance | A moving hospital, which follows an army in its movements, so as to afford the… | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| amusette | A light field-cannon, invented by Marshal Saxe, formerly used in mountain warfare. | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| anhelant | Breathing, inhaling. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| Anschluss | Annexation or union, spec. of Austria to Germany (either the actual union in 1938 or as proposed before that date). | 1924 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-Jacobin | Opposed to the Jacobins, one of the revolutionary parties in France in 1789; hence, opposed… | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-Jacobinism | The practice and principles of the Anti-Jacobins. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| Argentine | A native or inhabitant of Argentina. Also, a horse or pony of a breed peculiar to Argentina. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| Arracacha | A genus of umbelliferous plants, with tuberous roots, found in the north of South America… | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| assoiler | Absolving (from excommunication). | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| assumable | That may be assumed. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| autocratress | A title of a female tsar of Russia. More fully Autocratress of all the Russias. Cf. autocrat n. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| autographic | Handwritten; = autograph adj. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| backgammon | To defeat at backgammon, or by winning a backgammon. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| bacteriocidal | = bactericidal adj. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| blay | = blae adj. 5 (‘unbleached’). Frequent in Irish use. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| bloc | In Continental politics, a combination of divergent political parties which supports… | 1903 | Go To Quotation |
| blockading | That blockades; besetting. | 1708 | Go To Quotation |
| bludgeoned | Armed with a bludgeon, or with bludgeons. | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| bludgeonist | One who strikes with or as with a bludgeon. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| bobstay | ‘A rope used to confine the bowsprit of a ship downward to the stem... [Its use] is to… | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| braggade | Brag; boasting. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| brat | A fish: the turbot, birt, or bret. Also attrib., as in brat-net. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| bull-baiter | One who baits bulls. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| Bund | A league, confederacy, or association; spec. (a) the confederation of German states; (b)… | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| Bundesrat | A federal council; spec. (a) the upper house of the German or Austrian parliament; (b) the federal council of Switzerland. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| burkundaz | ‘A matchlock man, but commonly applied to a native of Hindustan, armed with a sword and… | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| caddee | | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| cantorial | Pertaining to a cantor or precentor; applied to that side (the north side) of the choir… | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| cassoon | Archit. a sunken panel. (= caisson n. 1a 3.) | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| cautionment | = caution n. 1. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| censurate | A censorial body. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| Charter School | The name given to schools established in Ireland by the Charter Society founded in… | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| Chartist | One of the body of political reformers (chiefly of the working classes) who arose in 1837 –… | 1838 | Go To Quotation |
| chasse-marée | A coasting-vessel, generally lugger-rigged, used on the French side of the Channel. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| chelingo | A kind of large boat used on the Coromandel Coast; see quot. 1790. | 1761 | Go To Quotation |
| choragic | Pertaining to a choragus. choragic monument n. one erected in honour of a choragus. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| chucker | A small pebble used in the game of check-stones or ‘chucks’. (Cf. checker n.) | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| circar | A province or division of Hindustan under the Moguls. Northern Circars n. a… | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| circuitor | One who goes his rounds, a travelling inspector, visitor, ranger. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| circumvolutionary | Of or pertaining to circumvolution. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| cleanse | A cleansing. Obs. | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| clinical | Med. Of or pertaining to the sick-bed, spec. to that of indoor hospital patients… | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| coalesced | Grown together; allied, entered into coalition. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| coalified | Turned into coal. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| comby | Having combs or a comb-like structure; full of interstices like a honey-comb; favose. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| comitat | = comitatus n. | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| concoctor | A digester; a promoter of digestion. Obs. | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| conscriptional | Of or belonging to conscription. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| constabulary | Of or pertaining to petty constables or to police officers; belonging to the… | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| constitutionality | The quality of being in accordance with the constitution; constitutional character. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| contributional | Of or pertaining to a contribution. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| conventionalist | A member or supporter of the French Convention of 1792. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| copiator | One who copies out documents. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| copsing | = coppicing n., copsewood. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| coralligenous | Coral-producing. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| corcle | A name for the embryo in the seed of a plant. | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| cork-jacket | A jacket made partly of cork, or lined with cork, to support a person in the water. | 1761 | Go To Quotation |
| corporator | A member of a corporation, esp. of a municipal corporation. | 1787 | Go To Quotation |
| Correggiesque | Characteristic of, or in the style of, the Italian painter Correggio. | 1761 | Go To Quotation |
| co-state | A state allied with another. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| cradling | That cradles or forms a cradle. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| cremate | To consume by fire, to burn; spec. to reduce (a corpse) to ashes. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| cretin | One of a class of dwarfed and specially deformed idiots found in certain valleys of the… | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| Crown prince | The prince who is heir-apparent or designate to a sovereign throne, esp. in Germany and the Northern European countries. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| cudbear | The lichen Lecanora tartarea. | 1767 | Go To Quotation |
| culvert | A channel, conduit, or tunneled drain of masonry or brick-work conveying a stream of… | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| curatage | The office of a curator or guardian; provision of curators or guardians. Obs. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| cut-off | = cut-away adj. | 1840 | Go To Quotation |
| decrepidity | = decrepitude n. | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| defalcator | One guilty of defalcation; one who has misappropriated money or other property committed to his care. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| denationalize | trans. To deprive of nationality; to take his proper nationality from (a person, a ship… | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| denaturalization | The action of denaturalizing, or condition of being denaturalized. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| depasturage | Right of pasture. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| dermoid | Resembling or of the nature of skin. (Sometimes loosely, Of or belonging to the skin, dermal.) | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| dermoidal | = dermoid adj. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| despotize | intr. To act the part of a despot; to rule as a despot. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| dignifiedly | In a dignified manner; with dignity or its appearance. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| diorama | A mode of scenic representation in which a picture, some portions of which are… | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| diramation | Branching out, ramification. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| disreputable | The reverse of reputable; such as to bring into disrepute or reflect discredit; discreditable. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| drogher | A West Indian coasting vessel; hence transferred to other slow clumsy coasting craft. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| emigrated | That has left his native land to settle in another. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| encyclic | = encyclical adj. 1 2. | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| ennobler | One who or that which ennobles. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| epizooty | An epizootic disease. | 1783 | Go To Quotation |
| epurate | trans. To purify. lit and fig. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| ethnocide | The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group, esp. within a larger community. | 1974 | Go To Quotation |
| excruciatingly | To an excruciating degree; in an extremely painful manner. Often hyperbolically in humorous use. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| executibility | Capability of being executed, performed, or carried out. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| facultative | Of enactments, etc.: Conveying a ‘faculty’ or permission; permissive as opposed… | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| Falange | A Spanish political party, founded in 1933 as a Fascist movement by J. A. Primo de… | 1937 | Go To Quotation |
| faucial | Bot. Pertaining to the fauces or ‘throat’ of a flower. | 1807 | Go To Quotation |
| figure-head | A piece of ornamental carving, usually a bust or full-length figure, placed over the cut-water of a ship. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| filature | An establishment for reeling silk. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| financical | = financial adj. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| flabbergast | trans. To put (a person) in such confusion that he does not for the moment know what to do… | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| flasker | (See quot. 1816.) | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| fleshify | | 1769 | Go To Quotation |
| floe | A sheet of floating ice, of greater or less extent; a detached portion of a field of ice. Also ice-floe. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| forcibility | The quality of being forcible. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| forebudding | ? = fore-body n. 2. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| fraternization | The action of fraternizing or uniting as brothers, the state or condition of fraternity, fraternal association. | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| gabber | A chatterer, prater. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| gardevin | A case or closet for wine-bottles. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| gelataneous | Of the nature of jelly. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| gig | trans. ? To befool, hoax. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| gig | trans. To spear (fish) with a gig. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| guggling | That guggles, in the senses of the verb. | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| guillotine | An instrument used in France (esp. during the Revolution) for beheading, consisting of… | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| guillotine | trans. To behead by the guillotine. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| guitarist | One who plays the guitar. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| hattery | A hat manufactory. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| Heimwehr | Formerly, the German or the Austrian Home Defence Force. Also attrib. | 1931 | Go To Quotation |
| hierocratical | = hierocratic adj. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| Homerize | intr. To imitate the Homeric poems in style or content. Now rare. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| howdah | A seat to contain two or more persons, usually fitted with a railing and a canopy, erected on the back of an elephant. | 1775 | Go To Quotation |
| hutted | Furnished with or consisting of huts. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| iceland | A country or region covered with or characterized by the presence of ice (in early use… | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| idiomatism | An idiomatic expression. | 1772 | Go To Quotation |
| illegitimatize | trans. = illegitimate v. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| imagery work | (a) = imagery n. 1b. Obs. (b) = imagery n. 1a. Now chiefly hist. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| indention | = indentation n. 1 2. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| inductee | A person inducted into military service. Also transf. | 1941 | Go To Quotation |
| inequivocal | Not equivocal, unequivocal. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| inhaler | An appliance enabling a person to breathe with safety in a deleterious atmosphere or under water; a respirator. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| inscriptive | Of the nature of an inscription; belonging to or used in inscriptions (quot. 1888). | 1740 | Go To Quotation |
| institutress | A female institutor. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| insurable | Capable of being, or proper to be, insured (in sense 5 of the verb); sufficient to form… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| intolerantly | In an intolerant manner or spirit; without tolerance. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| invermination | The condition of being infested with (intestinal) worms. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| Islamitish | = Islamitic adj. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| Jacobinic | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the French Jacobins; ultra-democratic. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| junk | To cut or divide into junks or chunks. | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| jurisprudist | = jurisprudent n. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| jussion | Order, command. letters of jussion, letters by which the French king ordered the parliament to register an ordinance. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| khoum | A unit of currency in Mauritania (introduced in 1973) equal to one-fifth of an ouguiya. | 1974 | Go To Quotation |
| kisan | In India, a peasant, an agricultural worker. | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| knick-knackery | A fanciful dish or confection, = knick-knack n. 2. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| knock-out | of, or in connection with, an auction sale (see quots.). | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| lengthenment | The fact of being lengthened. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| lock-up | a house of detention, spec. (see quot. 1785). | 1767 | Go To Quotation |
| loi-cadre | A general outline law, the principles of which can be applied by the government in succeeding parallel situations. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| long shot | A shot fired at a distance; a distant range; also attrib. | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| lota | A spheroidal water-pot, usually made of polished brass. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| lucubratist | = lucubrator n. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| Luddism | The practices of the Luddites. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| Luddite | A member of an organized band of English mechanics and their friends, who (1811 –… | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| lunel | A sweet muscat wine. Also lunel-wine. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| lye | trans. To treat with lye. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| magistratial | Relating to or characteristic of a magistrate. | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| manchette | = machete n. | 1761 | Go To Quotation |
| manoeuvre | Mil. and Naut. The planned or regulated movement of troops, armoured vehicles, vessels… | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| mass | trans. To massage. Also (occas.) used intr. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| mast-yard | A yard in which ships' masts are made. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| megameter | An instrument for determining longitude from the position of the stars, esp. one which… | 1768 | Go To Quotation |
| meloplast | An empty staff used as an aid in teaching staff notation. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| merwoman | A mermaid, esp. an older or married one. Also in extended use. | 1811 | Go To Quotation |
| mezza voce | More fully a mezza voce. With half of the possible vocal (or occas. instrumental)… | 1776 | Go To Quotation |
| mobilization | Econ. and Finance. The action or process of bringing into circulation or realizing… | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| moderatism | The adoption or advocacy of a moderate view or course of action in any subject of… | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| monoxyle | A canoe or boat made from a single trunk or piece of timber; = monoxylon n. | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| moss rose | A cultivar of the Provence (cabbage) rose, Rosa centifolia, with a mosslike covering of glands on the calyx and pedicel. | 1777 | Go To Quotation |
| mysticity | The quality or fact of being mystical; belief in mysticism. | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| nem. diss. | Esp. with reference to a motion carried: (with) no one dissenting. Cf. nem. con. adv. | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| Nizam | (The title of) the hereditary ruler of Hyderabad, a former state of Southern India… | 1769 | Go To Quotation |
| Nizamat | The territory, office, or authority of the Nizam. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| nomadical | Characteristic of a nomad; itinerant. Cf. nomadic adj. 1a 2. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| non-consumption | Refusal or failure to consume certain articles of food. | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| non-united | Not united; (Orthodox Church) that is not part of or does not constitute a Uniate Church (now rare). | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| obliviscence | Forgetting; an instance of this; (Psychol.) deterioration of the ability to… | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| operameter | An apparatus for registering the number of revolutions, strokes, or cycles of a mechanism, esp. in a manufacturing process. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| organzined | Of silk: that has been made into organzine. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| outflank | Mil. To extend or get beyond the flank of (an opposing army); to outmanoeuvre (an adversary) by a flanking movement. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| overschippen | The transferral of goods from one ship to another; trans-shipment. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| paktong | A silver-coloured cupro-nickel alloy, either the Chinese alloy paitung (paitung n.), or… | 1776 | Go To Quotation |
| palatinal | Of or belonging to a palatinate; = palatinate n. 1. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| panification | Bread-making; conversion into the substance of bread, esp. regarded as a chemical process. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| paramilitary | Designating, of, or relating to a force or unit whose function and organization are… | 1935 | Go To Quotation |
| pig-faced | Having a face resembling that of a pig. | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| pinkroot | The root of any of several American plants of the genus Spigelia (family Loganiaceae), used… | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| piqué | A stiff fabric, typically of cotton, woven in a strongly ribbed or raised pattern… | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| pleasureful | Full of pleasure; pleasing, delightful. | 1502 | Go To Quotation |
| pneumatologist | An expert in pneumatology. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| polyandrism | = polyandry n. 1a. | 1801 | Go To Quotation |
| polycentrist | Advocating or practising polycentrism. Also as n.: a person who advocates or practices polycentrism. | 1963 | Go To Quotation |
| polypetal | = polypetalous adj. 1. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| polyploidogenic | Inducing polyploidization. | 1944 | Go To Quotation |
| pressroom | The cabin on a ship in which men newly pressed into the navy were confined. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| provisorily | In a provisory way; provisionally. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| put-up | orig. Criminals' slang. Of a crime: planned in advance by conspiracy with other persons… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| quassi | The wood or bark of the Suriname quassia tree, Quassia amara (cf. quassia n. 2a); the tree itself. Usu. attrib. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| referendum | The process or principle of referring an important political question (e.g.… | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| residentiary | Residual; of small value. | 1774 | Go To Quotation |
| resurrect | trans. To restore (a dead person) to life; to raise from the dead or from the grave. Also in extended use. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| resurrectionist | A person who illegally exhumes bodies in order to sell them to anatomists; a… | 1777 | Go To Quotation |
| retrip | A second or subsequent trip; esp. a return journey. | 1760 | Go To Quotation |
| retrospectory | That looks back on the past; retrospective. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| rice grain | An individual seed of rice, esp. after removal of the husk. Also (as a mass noun): rice as a food grain. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| Ringwood | Designating a type of strong ale originally brewed at Ringwood in Hampshire. Formerly also †absol.: ale of this type. | 1772 | Go To Quotation |
| roller | trans. To form or shape (wool) into rolls. Cf. roller n. 12a. Obs. rare. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| Russo-Greek | = orthodox adj. 3; esp. Russian Orthodox. Now rare. | 1776 | Go To Quotation |
| sansculotte | In the French Revolution, a republican of the poorer classes in Paris. Hence gen. an extreme republican or revolutionary. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| scoot | To go suddenly and swiftly, to dart; to go away hurriedly. Often with advs. | 1758 | Go To Quotation |
| scrutin | In French combinations, referring to contrasting electoral systems: scrutin d'arrondissement… | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| secernent | A secreting organ. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| semaphore | An apparatus for making signals, consisting of an upright post with one or more arms moving in a vertical plane. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Septembrize | trans. To treat (a person or group of people) in a manner characteristic of… | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| Septinsular | etc.: the Ionian Islands. Also as n. pl. the people of the Ionian Islands. | 1809 | Go To Quotation |
| sheather | One who or that which sheathes. | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| Showa | The traditionally auspicious name or reign-title given to the period of rule of the Japanese emperor Hirohito (1926 – 89). | 1927 | Go To Quotation |
| signalment | A description of a person wanted by the police; a hue and cry (hue and cry n. 1b). Also: a distinguishing mark. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| single-horse | Of vehicles: Made to be drawn by a single horse; one-horse. | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| skip | In mining or quarrying, a bucket, box, basket, cage, or wagon, in which materials or men… | 1815 | Go To Quotation |
| snick | trans. To cause to click or sound sharply. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| snitcher | (See quot. 1762) Obs. | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| sodden | trans. To make sodden; to soak in, or saturate with, water. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| souchong | One of the finer varieties of black tea. Also attrib. | 1761 | Go To Quotation |
| sovnarkhoz | In the U.S.S.R.: a regional council for the local regulation of the economy. | 1958 | Go To Quotation |
| Sovnarkom | The highest executive and administrative organ of government of the U.S.S.R. (renamed… | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| spectrological | Pertaining to spectres or apparitions. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| spray | A spree or drinking-bout; frolic. | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| stadholderate | The office or dignity of stadholder. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| stadholderian | Pertaining to a stadholder or to the office of stadholder; attached to the party of the stadholder. | 1787 | Go To Quotation |
| stag | ? variant of stack n. 6. | 1776 | Go To Quotation |
| stalactitic | Having the form or structure of a stalactite, resembling or pertaining to stalactites. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| starvation | The action of starving or subjecting to famine. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| steek | A strike (of workmen). | 1769 | Go To Quotation |
| steening | concr. The lining of a well or other excavation. | 1767 | Go To Quotation |
| stillion | A stand for a cask; a gantry. Also, a stand or frame on which pottery is placed in the drying kiln (Knight). | 1803 | Go To Quotation |
| strass | A vitreous composition used as a basis in the manufacture of artificial stones: = paste n. 8. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| subedari | = subahship n. | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| Suez | Used attrib. and absol. to denote the military and political crisis which resulted… | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| table-turner | A participant in a seance at which table-turning occurs; (also) a medium. Cf. table-rapping n. | 1853 | Go To Quotation |
| tache | trans. To dry (tea) in a ‘tache’ or shallow pan. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| tachygraph | One who practises tachygraphy; a writer of shorthand, a stenographer; spec. one of… | 1810 | Go To Quotation |
| taffrail | The aftermost portion of the poop-rail of a ship. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| tail-board | The board at the hinder end of a cart, barrow, van, etc.; usually one attached to the bottom… | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| tallageable | Liable to be tallaged or taxed. | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| tarantella | A rapid whirling South Italian dance popular with the peasantry since the fifteenth… | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| telegraph | An apparatus for transmitting messages to a distance, usually by signs of some kind.… | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| terrorism | Government by intimidation as directed and carried out by the party in power in France… | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| tertius gaudens | A third party that benefits by the conflict or estrangement of two others. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| tolerantism | The principles of a tolerant (see tolerant n.). | 1824 | Go To Quotation |
| tontine | A financial scheme by which the subscribers to a loan or common fund receive each… | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| torpefy | trans. To render torpid, benumb, deaden, paralyse. Also fig. | 1808 | Go To Quotation |
| tour d'horizon | An extensive tour. Usu. fig., a broad, general survey. | 1952 | Go To Quotation |
| tracker | One who tracks or tows a vessel; a tower; also, a towing-vessel, a tugboat. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| tricoloured | = tricolour adj. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| tricycle | A three-wheeled coach or omnibus drawn by two horses, formerly used in Paris. Obs. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| under-habit | (under- prefix 2b(a).) | 1772 | Go To Quotation |
| under-marshalman | (under- prefix 3a(a).) | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| unintermittingly | (un- prefix 11; cf. unintermitting adj.) | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| unliquidated | Not cleared off or paid. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| untitheable | (un- prefix 7b.) | 1776 | Go To Quotation |
| Vauxhall | Used ellipt. for Vauxhall Gardens, a popular pleasure resort from the 17th to the middle… | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| Venezuelan | Of or pertaining to the republic of Venezuela in the north of South America. | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| verder | In plural. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| Vichyite | = Vichyist n. at Vichy n. Derivatives. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| Viet Cong | (A member of) the Communist guerilla force(s) active in Vietnam between 1954 and 1976. | 1957 | Go To Quotation |
| vigonia | vicuña-wool. | 1763 | Go To Quotation |
| virtival | A bush or metal support for an axle. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| Vopo | (A member of) the Volkspolizei (see Volkspolizei n. at Volk n. 2). | 1954 | Go To Quotation |
| ward-room | The mess-cabin of naval commissioned officers above the rank of sub-lieutenant; hence, the commissioned officers as a body. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| wranglesome | Given to wrangling; quarrelsome; contentious, peevish. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| yager | Anglicized spelling of German jäger, jaeger: see jäger n. 1 2. | 1804 | Go To Quotation |
