| ailantine | Silk from the ailanthus silk moth, Samia cynthia (family Saturniidae), a very large… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| anguillule | A small eel-shaped creature; esp. one of the animalcules of the family Anguillulidæ, such as the ‘eels’ in sour paste or vinegar. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| a-smear | Smeared. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| autophotograph | A photograph printed by autography (see autography n. 4). Obs. nonce-use. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| Bayreuth | The name of a Bavarian town in which festivals of the music of Richard Wagner have been… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| belaborous | Given to belabouring or thrashing. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| Blondin | A tight-rope, a cable-way. Also fig., a tight-rope walker. Also attrib. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| bogglingly | In a boggling manner. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| bonzess | A female bonze. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| bouldery | Characterized by the presence of boulders. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| bouqueted | Furnished with a bouquet or bouquets. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| button-hole | trans. = button-hold v. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| cabby | A cab-driver. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| capsule | | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| cataloguist | = cataloguer n. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| china-mania | A mania or extravagant fancy for the collection of (old) china. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| chivalrist | An admirer of mediæval chivalry. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| coachfulness | State of being full of coaches. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| coaly | A coal-heaver. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| collodionize | | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| complexionless | Devoid of complexion, i.e. of colour in the cheeks; pale, colourless. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| danceable | Suitable for dancing; fit to dance with. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| deux-temps | A kind of waltz, more rapid than the ordinary or trois-temps waltz, the step consisting… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| emetically | In the manner of an emetic. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| femina | Usu. in pl. The long pale feathers from the wing tips of a female ostrich, used… | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| flirtable | That is ready to flirt or be flirted with. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| fluey | Covered with flue. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| fluffiness | The quality of being fluffy, in various senses. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| frother | An instrument or substance which causes a liquid to form a froth. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| futureless | Without a future, having no future before one. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| gran | A childish or familiar shortening of granny or grandmother. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| gulpy | Marked by gulps or choking. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| hairlet | A small or diminutive hair. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| hennery | An establishment or place for rearing poultry; a place where hens are kept: cf. rookery n. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| hopping | Engaged in hop-picking. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| housemaidenhood | The condition, state, or practice of working as a housemaid. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| jowled | Having jowls or jaws (of a specified kind). | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| lustrify | trans. To make lustrous. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| narcotist | A person addicted to a narcotic drug. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| nobby | = nobbler n. 4. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| non-market | That does not involve a market; (in later use) spec. that does not involve trade or commercial activity. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| nutcracker | trans. With adjective or prepositional phrase as complement: to bring into a certain state by the use of a nutcracker. Obs. rare. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| off time | A time when a person is off duty or free from work; a holiday; a time when customary… | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| old-worldism | = old-worldliness n. | 1885 | Go To Quotation |
| ozoneless | Containing no ozone; without ozone. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| palingenesist | A believer in palingenesis; (also) a person who seeks to regenerate or resuscitate something. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| paludian | = paludal adj. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| panspermist | A person who advocates the theory of panspermia. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| participled | Damned; confounded. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| pébrine | A disease of silkworms caused by the microsporidian parasite Nosema bombycis, and… | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| peckly | Characterized by speckles or spots, speckled. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| Perkin | the dye mauve, first prepared by Perkin in 1856 and the first synthetic dye to be used commercially. Cf. mauveine n. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| perspiry | Moist or stained with perspiration; sweaty. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| photographee | A person who is photographed; the subject of a photograph. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| polygamically | In a polygamic manner. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| pompey | trans. To pamper. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| postbox | Any box where papers, etc., are left for collection. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| prestidigitatory | Of or relating to prestidigitation. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| rampage | The action or an act of rampaging; a state of excitement or violent passion; (also) a… | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| raticide | The action of killing a rat or rats. Also: an instance of this. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| ratling | A young rat. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| rinkist | A skater on a rink. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| rorty | Boisterous, rowdy; saucy; jolly, cheery. Also: dissipated, profligate; (of a song… | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| rouladed | That is a roulade (roulade n. 1b); full of roulades. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| russeting | That is becoming russet in colour. | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| saucepanful | The contents of a saucepan; the amount a saucepan will hold. | 1868 | Go To Quotation |
| shabbify | trans. To make shabby. Also fig. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| short-timer | A child who is allowed to attend school for less than the full number of hours daily (cf. half-timer n.). Obs. exc. Hist. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| skatist | One who is fond of skating. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| small-talkable | That is capable of being engaged in small talk. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| sniggerer | One who sniggers or laughs covertly. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| soupy | Like soup; having the appearance or consistency of soup. | 1869 | Go To Quotation |
| spongeless | Having no sponge. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| stagy | Resembling that used on the stage; dramatically artificial or exaggerated. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| tigery | Tigerish, tiger-like. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| traction-engine | A steam-engine used for drawing heavy loads along an ordinary road; a road-engine… | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| treed | Planted or covered with trees; wooded. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| unassertive | (un- prefix 7.) | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| uncolonial | (un- prefix 7.) | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| undiscussible | (un- prefix 7b 5b.) | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| unhooped | (un- prefix 8.) | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| unrifled | (un- prefix 8 + rifle v.) | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| unsnap | trans. To reverse or undo the action of snapping; to release or detach by undoing a snap or catch. | 1862 | Go To Quotation |
| untusked | (un- prefix 9.) | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| verminy | Infested with vermin; verminous. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| Wagnerian | Of or pertaining to Richard Wagner, his music and theories of musical and dramatic composition. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| wax | intr. to wax up, to burst into anger, ‘flare’ up. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| wodge | A bulky mass; a chunk or lump; a wad (of paper). | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| zonite | A snail of the genus Zonites. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
