| abjective | That tends to lower or demoralize a person. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| amateurishness | The quality of being amateurish; the appearance of being an amateur, and not a professional worker. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Andromedid | = Andromed(e n. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| annexionist | One who aims at or advocates annexation; = annexationist n. Often attrib. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| antechamber | intr. and trans. To wait or wait for in or as in an antechamber: cf. antechambering n. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| apronful | The quantity that can be held in an apron. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| a-rake | On the rake; inclined from the perpendicular. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| arbitrationist | One who is in favour of arbitration. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| argentocracy | The rule or paramount influence of money. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| armoried | Decked with armorial bearings or escutcheons. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| assessing | That assesses or fixes assessments. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| automobilist | A person who drives or uses an automobile; a motorist. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| avitic | = avital adj. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| baby farmer | A person who practises baby farming or who runs a baby farm. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| baby farming | The lodging and care of (typically unwanted) babies or young children for profit. Also… | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| bakerdom | condition of a baker. ˈbakership n. skill as a baker. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| banjolin | A musical instrument combining the characteristics of the banjo and mandolin. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| baronethood | The degree or rank of baronet; baronetcy. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| bathing | That bathes. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| bayoneting | Stabbing with a bayonet. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| bearing | Acting as a ‘bear’ in Stock Exchange transactions. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| beerage | Brewers collectively, esp. those who are made into peers; the beer industry; also… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| bengaline | A new (French) name for poplin, a mixed fabric of silk and worsted. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| bestuur | Government, administration; i.e. in the Dutch-speaking parts of South Africa. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| biblicize | trans. To subject to the Bible. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| bikemanship | Skill in riding a bicycle or motorcycle. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| biliously | In a bilious or ill-tempered manner. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| bonus | trans. To give a bonus to; to assist or promote by bonuses. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| boulevarded | Provided with boulevards. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| bow-head | In full bow-head whale. The Arctic right whale, Balæna mysticetus. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| brashness | The state or quality of being brash, impetuous, crude, etc. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Brethrenism | The principles and system of the Protestant sect calling themselves Brethren or Christian Brethren… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| bubblement | Effervescence (lit. and fig.). | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| cabbing | Cab-driving, cab-letting. (Also attrib.) | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| cacodemonic | Of the nature of a cacodemon. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| caliphal | Of or pertaining to a caliph. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| calmative | A medical agent which quiets inordinate action of an organ; transf. and fig. anything which has a calming effect. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| calumny | To calumniate. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| canonistical | Having relation to canonistic matters; also = canonistic adj. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| captress | A female captor. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| carrapato | A tick of the genus Ixodes. Also attrib., as carrapato disease (quot. 1903). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| cashable | Capable of being cashed. Also fig. (cf. cash-value n. at cash n. 2). | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| catdom | The condition or quality of cats; the world of cats. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| centenarize | | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| chairman | trans. To preside over (a meeting) as chairman; = chair v. 1d. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| chassepot | The type of breech-loading, centre-fire needle-gun adopted as the rifle of the French army in 1866. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| chattery | Characterized by chattering. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| chauvinism | Exaggerated patriotism of a bellicose sort; blind enthusiasm for national glory… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| chawl | An Indian lodging-house. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| chronophotography | An early term for cinematic photography. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| circumstantive | Of or pertaining to circumstance: as, the circumstantive relations expressed by adverbs. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| clique | To combine in, or act as, a clique. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| closure | trans. To apply the closure to (a debate or speaker). | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| clumber | Name of a breed of spaniels. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| collapsibility | The quality of being collapsible. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| collegiality | Colleagueship; the relation between colleagues. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| comfortlessness | Comfortless quality. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| comique | A comic actor or performer; a singer of comic songs. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| commonal | Pertaining to the commonalty. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| compositress | A female compositor (in a printing office). | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| conciliant | = conciliatory adj. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| conciliatoriness | The state or quality of being conciliatory. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| condoner | One that condones. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| confraternal | Of or like a confrere; having the spirit of confraternity. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| congregant | One of those who congregate anywhere; a member of a congregation; esp. a member of a Jewish congregation. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Congressionalist | A supporter of a congress; a member of a congressional party. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| congressionist | A member or supporter of a congress. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| contrabassist | One who plays the contrabass. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| convening | That convenes. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| copyholding | Tenure by copy. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| corkscrewy | Like a corkscrew, spiral. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| co-signatory | One who signs (a document, treaty, etc.) jointly with another or others; a joint signatory. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| costeress | A female ‘coster’. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| coteful | As many as fill a cote. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| counteractant | A counteracting agency or force. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| countryless | Without a country. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| coxless | Without a coxswain, coxwainless. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| crépon | A stuff resembling crape, but of firmer substance, made of fine worsted, silk, or a combination of the two. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| crime passionnel | A crime committed in a fit of passion; spec. a murder motivated by jealousy. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| crocodiling | Walking in a crocodile (crocodile n. 4). | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| curarize | To administer curare to (an animal), esp. in a physiological experiment, in order to… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| custumal | Having to do with the customs of a city, etc. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| cyclist | One who rides a cycle or practises cycling. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| daubreelite | A black sulphide of chromium, found in meteoric iron. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| dead end | A closed end of a water-pipe, passage, etc., through which there is no way; also attrib. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| decorable | Capable of decoration. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| deflation | The release of air from something inflated. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| delivering | That delivers: see the verb. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| demilitarize | trans. To take away the military organization from. (In quot. 1883 referring to… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| democratization | The action of rendering, or process of becoming, democratic. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| demonstrant | One who demonstrates or takes part in a public demonstration. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| demonstrational | Of or pertaining to demonstration. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| depoetize | trans. To deprive of the character of a poet; also, to deprive of poetic character; = depoeticize v. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| detoxicate | trans. To deprive of poisonous qualities. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| dib-hole | The hole at the bottom of the shaft, which receives the drainage of a mine, in order to… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| directable | Capable of being directed. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| director | trans. To manage as a director. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| disentrammel | trans. To free from its trammels, or from an entrammelled state. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| disintegrant | Disintegrating, or becoming disintegrated. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| dissolutionist | One who advocates or aims at dissolution. Also attrib. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dock | trans. To place (a prisoner) in the dock. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| dole | trans. To pare and thin (leather or skins). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| dongola | In dongola race: a race in which a punt or the like is propelled by paddling, by three or four pairs (usually male and female). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| doublure | An ornamental lining, usually of leather, on the inside of a book-cover. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| dripless | Without a drip; that does not drip. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| drivee | One who is driven or conveyed in a carriage; one taken for a drive. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| dynamitard | = dynamiter n. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| eke | A male salmon. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| eliminating | That eliminates. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| emigrational | Of or pertaining to emigration n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| employing | That employs. rare. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| encystment | Biol. The process of becoming surrounded by a cyst. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| entrainment | The act or fact of entering a train. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| epiglottic | Of or pertaining to the epiglottis. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| equivocate | A word identical in form but not in meaning. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| expeditor | One who or that which expedites; spec. in Comm. (orig. U.S.), a person employed to ensure… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| exterminative | Tending to exterminate. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| exterritorialize | trans. To secure the privileges of exterritoriality for; to withdraw (a person) from… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| facty | Full of facts. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| faradaism | = faradism n. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| flusher | One who is employed to flush sewers. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| forcite | A variety of dynamite (see quot. 1889). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| frog-marching | The action of subjecting or fact of being subjected to a frog-march; an instance of this. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| fundable | Capable of being funded. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| gaffe | A blunder, an instance of clumsy stupidity, a ‘faux pas’. | 1909 | Go To Quotation |
| gallinicide | The killing of hens or poultry. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| ganging | The combining of work-people into gangs or companies. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| gearless | Of a motor: Having no gear for the transmission of motion; acting directly. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| geisha | A Japanese girl whose profession is to entertain men by dancing and singing; loosely, a Japanese prostitute. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| gestate | trans. To carry in the womb during the period between conception and birth. Also fig. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| glossograph | A contrivance for reproducing speech automatically by electrical action. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Graecophil | A lover of Greece or of what is Greek. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| graphologist | A person versed in graphology. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| Gregory-powder | The ‘compound powder of rhubarb’ (Pulvis rhei composita) of the British Pharmacopœia. Usually called Gregory's powder. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| grooviness | The condition of being ‘groovy’; tendency to routine. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| half | Obs. and dial. f. halve v. (q.v.); also colloq. in sense To ‘be half’, go halves. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| headliner | One who writes headlines. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| hegemonist | An advocate of hegemony. | 1898 | Go To Quotation |
| herculite | A kind of explosive: see quot. 1892. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| hierarchize | trans. To arrange in a hierarchy or gradation of orders. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| humoresque | A composition of a humorous or capricious character. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| impeachability | The quality of being impeachable. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| impersonative | Having the faculty of impersonating; of the nature of or relating to histrionic impersonation. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| indaba | Originally: a Zulu or Xhosa tribal gathering, consultation, or council meeting; (later… | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| indefinition | A condition of being indefinite, of lacking definition. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Indophile | A lover or champion of the native inhabitants and interests of India. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| infallibilist | One who believes in or upholds the infallibility of some person or thing, esp. (in… | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| inflatant | That which inflates; an inflating agent. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| inleading | That leads in; introductory. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| in-quarto | A volume in quarto; a quarto book. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| insetter | A person who, or device which, insets sheets. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| institutionalize | trans. To render institutional; to convert into or treat as an institution. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| interjector | One who interjects or interpolates. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| interpellant | One who addresses an interpellation (in the French or other foreign Chamber). | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| interverbal | Placed between words. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| interviewee | One who is interviewed, esp. by a member of the press or a broadcasting organization. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| inventories | A name familiarly given to the Inventions Exhibition held in London in 1885. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| jay-hawker | A name given to members of the bands who carried on irregular warfare in and… | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| journalese | The style of language supposed to be characteristic of public journals; ‘newspaper’ or ‘penny-a-liner's’ English. | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| juratorial | Of or belonging to a jury. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| kerosene | trans. To saturate with kerosene, esp. in order to render inflammable. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| kleptic | Thievish. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| knublet | A small knub or lump. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| kraal | trans. To enclose in a kraal or stockade. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Labourism | Support for the rights and interests of working people, esp. considered as a political… | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| lamper | (See quot. 1886.) | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| landing | That lands; in Mil. phr. landing force, landing party. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| leadered | Treated in a leading article; made the subject of a leader. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| leather-neck | A sailor's name for a soldier, from the leather stock he used to wear. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| limbo | A South African name for a kind of coarse calico. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| loof | = loofah n. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| loppy | Of the sea: ‘Lumpy’, ‘choppy’; cf. lopping adj. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| lorette | A courtesan of a class which at one time had its headquarters in the vicinity of the Church of Notre Dame de Lorette in Paris. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| lucigen | An illuminant produced by burning a spray of oil mixed with air. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| maffick | intr. To celebrate uproariously, rejoice extravagantly, esp. on an occasion… | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| Manchesterism | The principles advocated by or attributed to the Manchester school (see Manchester n. 2a). | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| Manichaeanized | Affected by Manichaean doctrine. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Marinism | The literary style characteristic of Marini, marked by extravagant imagery and wordplay, fashionable in 17th-cent. Italy. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| mashing | Of a man: attractive, dashing. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| mezzograph | A photographic print imitating the effect of mezzotint. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| mid-winterly | = mid-wintry adj. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| millennialism | = millenarianism n. | 1906 | Go To Quotation |
| miserdom | Miserliness. Also fig. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| monkliness | Monastic character or life, monasticism. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| moonlighting | That takes part in moonlighting; that moonlights (in various senses). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| morphiomaniac | = morphinomaniac n. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| mother ship | A ship (subsequently also an aeroplane, spacecraft, etc.) escorting or having charge of… | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| mot juste | The precisely appropriate word or expression. Freq. in le mot juste. | 1896 | Go To Quotation |
| naggle | Pettiness, nagging. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| nationalizer | An advocate or supporter of the nationalization of land, property, industry, etc. Freq. in land-nationalizer. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| novelese | The style of writing supposedly characteristic of inferior novels. | 1900 | Go To Quotation |
| objectionability | Objectionableness; (also, occas.) an objection. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| oblongitudinal | Oblong. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| occupiable | Able or fit to be occupied. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| off-drive | trans. To drive (a ball) to the off side. Freq. also with the bowler as object. Occas. used intr. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| old-maidhood | The state or condition of being an old maid. | 1871 | Go To Quotation |
| old soldier | trans. To use flattery or deceit to persuade or cajole. Cf. to come the old soldier at old soldier n. 1c. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| oleographic | Relating to oleographs or oleography; of the nature of or resembling an oleograph. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| olivet | An oval button or piece of wood covered with silk or worsted and used for fastening a… | 1819 | Go To Quotation |
| omophagist | An eater of raw flesh. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| one-acter | A play or other production consisting of only one act. Also fig. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| operatized | Put into operatic form. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| organizationist | Originally: a person who is an organizer for or an advocate of charity organizations.… | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| outcasting | The action of expelling or removing (a person) from his or her caste. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| outstill | In India: a private still licensed by government and situated outside the limits of… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| overmatter | Surplus materials; matter remaining over or in excess, esp. surplus text. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| over-rule | The rule of a higher or supreme power; overall authority. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| overspill | The relocation of surplus population from a particular city, country, etc., to a… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| pacemaker | A competitor (usually a person or horse) who sets the pace for one or more other competitors… | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| pansophism | = pansophy n. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| parochialization | The action or process of making parochial (in various senses). | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| Pecksniffery | Language or behaviour reminiscent of Pecksniff (cf. Pecksniff n.); hypocrisy, officiousness. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| phossy jaw | Necrosis of the upper or lower jawbone (maxilla or mandible), often accompanied… | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| photograver | A person who produces plates or prints by photo-engraving; a photo-engraver. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| photogravure | trans. To reproduce by photogravure. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| pietic | Pious. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Piffer | A member of the Punjab Irregular Frontier Force, a military unit raised in 1849 chiefly… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| pigswill | Kitchen refuse and scraps (esp. in liquid form) used as food for pigs; (fig.) something… | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| pikeish | Of, relating to, or suggestive of a pike. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| piline | Of the nature of hair; hairy. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| pinge | intr. = ping v. 1a. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| pipeline | trans. To convey by a pipeline. Also: to provide (an oilfield, etc.) with a pipeline (rare). | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| pivoting | That pivots. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| place-kicker | A player who specializes in taking place-kicks. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| pollutant | A polluting agent; esp. a noxious or poisonous substance which pollutes the environment. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| polydactylism | = polydactyly n. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| pooled | That is shared in common; that has been combined or collected for the common benefit. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| pop-in visit | = pop visit n. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| poser | A person who poses; a poseur. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| pressible | = pressable adj. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| primroser | Polit. slang. With capital initial. An adherent of the Primrose League. Now rare. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| pteridoid | Of a plant: (originally) †belonging or allied to the ferns (obs.); (now) spec. belonging… | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| quad | trans. To twist together (insulated conductors) so as to form a quad (quad n.). Cf. quadded adj., quadruplex v. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| quitting | That quits; that is in the process of quitting. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| Rasputinism | The principles and practices considered characteristic of Rasputin, esp. debauchery… | 1918 | Go To Quotation |
| readaptive | Of, relating to, or involving readaptation; capable of readapting. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| reboisement | The action or process of reforesting; reforestation. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| recitalist | A person who gives a recital of music or dance. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| refill | That which serves to refill something; a fresh supply (esp. prepared or packaged) of… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| reflotation | The action or an act of refloat v. (in various senses). | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| refurbishment | The action or process of refurbishing something, esp. a building, room, etc.; renovation. Also: an instance of this. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| regrettably | In a regrettable manner; so as to cause regret. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| relay | A shellfish that has been moved from one bed to another. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| remarque | trans. Engraving. To insert as a remarque. Obs. rare. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| rephrasing | The action or an act of expressing something differently. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| rifleite | A kind of smokeless powder for use in certain kinds of rifle. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| roburite | A flameless high explosive based on ammonium nitrate and chlorodinitrobenzene. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| rocketing | Of a game bird, esp. a pheasant: that rockets (rocket v. 3a). | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| rompster | = romper n. 1. | 1893 | Go To Quotation |
| round-table | intr. To take part in a round-table conference or discussion. Cf. Round Table n. 5. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| rugged | Provided or covered with a rug or rugs. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| Russo-Japanese | Of, relating to, or involving Russia and Japan. | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| Russophobic | Hostile or antipathetic to Russia, its people, culture, etc. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| sacerdotalist | One who advocates or defends sacerdotalism. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| sanitariness | The condition of being sanitary. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| scabbarded | Sheathed. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| scaremonger | One who occupies himself in spreading alarming reports; an alarmist. Hence as v. intr.… | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| scrapping | Fighting; boxing. Also attrib. Also transf. in gen. use. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| scrum | Rugby Football. = scrimmage n. 4. Also ellipt. for scrum-half. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| scupper | trans. To surprise and massacre. Mil. slang. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| search-light | An electric arc-lamp fitted with a reflector and suspended in a frame so that it may throw… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| sensationally | With respect to sensation or feeling. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| serio-comedy | A serio-comic piece. Also transf. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| shereefian | Of or pertaining to the Shereef of Morocco. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| shirr | trans. To gather or draw up (textile material) by means of parallel threads. = gauge v. 8. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| silage | Green fodder preserved by pressure in a silo or stack; = ensilage n. 2. Also attrib. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| skillet | (See quot. 1888.) Also in more general applications. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| slippy | Slim; slender. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| slummer | One who visits the slums, esp. from charitable or philanthropic motives. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| slumward(s | In the direction of the slums. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| smackful | As much or as many as a (fishing-) smack can hold or carry. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| solicitee | One who is solicited. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| solidarily | In a solidary manner; with solidarity. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| solution | trans. To treat with, fasten or secure by, a solution. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| songy | Having the qualities of a song. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| spaceship | A manned spacecraft. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| special pleader | A special plea; a piece of one-sided pleading. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| spectrogram | A photograph of a spectrum. Hence, more widely, a visual representation of a spectrum of any kind. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| spillway | A channel or slope built to carry away surplus water from a reservoir. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| spottily | In a spotty manner; without uniformity. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| sprayed | That has been sprinkled with spray; subjected to spray. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| sprigger | One who ornaments a textile fabric or other material with sprigs. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| stagged | = stag-headed adj. 2. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| stewy | Suggestive of being stewed; having a stewed flavour; resembling stew. | 1895 | Go To Quotation |
| sublimification | The action or process of making a person or thing pure, noble, or perfect; elevation to… | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| suggestionable | = suggestible adj. 1. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| sulphonal | Diethyl-sulphone-dimethyl-methane, a white crystalline substance, used as a hypnotic. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| suspendible | Capable of being, or liable to be, suspended. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| tandstickor | More fully, tandstickor match, a cheap kind of lucifer match imported from Sweden. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| telegraphese | The concise and elliptical style in which telegrams are worded. Also attrib. or as adj. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| tenemented | Let in tenements or separate dwellings: said of a building, house, or house property. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| terne | Of or pertaining to terne-plate. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| thriller | One who or that which thrills; spec. (slang or colloq.) a sensational play, film, or story (cf. shocker n. 1). | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| tip | trans. To give a ‘tip’ or piece of private information about; esp. to mention or indicate… | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| tipping | The giving of ‘tips’ or private information as to the chances of sporting events, etc. Also attrib. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| tragedietta | A slight or short tragedy; a dramatic sketch of tragic character. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| triceratops | A genus of gigantic predentate dinosaurs of the family Ceratopsidæ, having a strong… | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| -type | Appended to adjs. and ns. or n. phrs. forming adjs. with the sense ‘of the specified… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| typhonic | Having the character of a whirlwind or tornado; tempestuous. (In quots. in allusion to Greek τυϕωνικός in Acts xxvii. 14.) | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Uitlander | = outlander n. 2. | 1892 | Go To Quotation |
| unaggressiveness | (un- prefix 12.) | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| unappreciation | (un- prefix 12 5b.) | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| unbriefed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| uncaptured | (un- prefix 8.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| unchafed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| uncompetitive | (un- prefix 7.) | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| unexploited | (un- prefix 8.) | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| unforested | Not covered with forest; not included in a deer-forest. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| unlegally | (un- prefix 11.) | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
| unwealthiness | (un- prefix 12. Cf. unwealthy adj.) | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| upkeep | Maintenance in good condition or repair; also, the cost of such. (Freq. from 1885.) | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| velocipedal | Of or relating to, depicting, a velocipede. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| verberative | Addicted to the practice of flogging. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| vertebration | fig. ‘Backbone’; strength or firmness. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| vesiculate | trans. To make vesicular or full of air-cells. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| virific | Virulent, poisonous. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| viticultural | Of or pertaining to viticulture; connected with the growing of vines. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| vocabularian | One who gives much or undue attention to words. | 1899 | Go To Quotation |
| voile | A thin semi-transparent cotton or woollen material much used for blouses and dresses. | 1889 | Go To Quotation |
| voltage | Electromotive force reckoned or expressed in volts. Also fig. | 1890 | Go To Quotation |
| waled | Marked with weals. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| welling | The action of making a well or shaft; in quot. 1865 concr., shaft-work. | 1865 | Go To Quotation |
| Welsbach | Used attrib. to designate the gas mantle (mantle n. 16b), invented by von Welsbach, and the lamps employing it. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| writ | trans. To serve (a person) with a writ or summons. Also refl. | 1888 | Go To Quotation |
