| abrogation | The act of abrogating something; the repeal or abolition of a law, custom, institution, etc. Also: the state of being abrogated. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| accomplisher | A person who accomplishes something; a doer, finisher, or perfecter. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| Amorite | A member of any of a group of Semitic tribes who lived in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Syria… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| appointed | Fixed by authority; ordained. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| armlet | An ornament or band worn round the arm. (Sometimes distinguished from bracelet, which is worn only at the wrist.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| avengeance | Avenging; vengeance. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Babylonical | derogatory. = Babylonian adj. 2. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| bald-head | One who has a bald head; also attrib.; transf. a kind of pigeon. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| banqueting | Giving of banquets (obs.); indulgence in luxurious entertainment, feasting, carousal. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| barded | Armed, caparisoned, or covered with bards. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| behold | The imperative of behold v., used to call attention; = lo int. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| belly-ful | A sufficiency; quite as much (of anything) as one wants or cares to take. (Now rather coarse.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| bewitching | The action of influencing by witchcraft; enchantment, fascination. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Bibler | A student or reader of the Bible. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| birthright | Right by birth; the rights, privileges, or possessions to which one is entitled… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| blab | trans. To utter with open mouth; usually with out. Also absol. To talk much or ineptly; to chatter, babble, ‘blether.’ Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| blasphemous | Uttering or expressing profanity, impiously irreverent. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| blazing | Blowing. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| blinded | fig. Having the understanding darkened; deluded; deceived, benighted, foolish. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| blood-guiltiness | Responsibility for bloodshed or killing; blood guilt. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| blood money | A financial reward for causing harm to someone; esp. a payment made for killing a person… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| boll | To quaff the bowl; to booze. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| bolled | Having bolls; esp. having seed vessels, in pod, in seed. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| brawling | Flowing with noise and commotion, as a brook. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| bridle-bit | The bit or mouth-piece of a bridle. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| bucking | The copulation of certain animals. Also attrib. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| butlership | The office of butler. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| by-post | In a building: A side post, a door post. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| cab | A Hebrew dry measure, according to the Rabbins the sixth part of a seah; about 2 5/6 imperial pints. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| calker | A calculator of nativities, etc.; an astrologer; a magician, conjurer. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| checker | A reprover, rebuker, fault-finder; a controller. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| checking | Taunting speech, invective, reproof. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| cheerfulness | Of persons, their dispositions, etc.: Gladsomeness, joyousness, alacrity, readiness. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| childship | The relationship of child to parent; the attainment of this status, filiation, adoption. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| circumciser | One who circumcises. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| col | Short for ‘the epistle of Paul to the Colossians ’ in the New Testament. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| contrairly | contrarily adv.; contrariwise. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| costliness | concr. Costly material; treasure. Obs. rare. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| covering | That covers: see the vb. covering-leaves (see quot.). covering letter: a letter… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| crouching | The action of the verb crouch v., q.v. Cf. crouch n. b. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Danite | A member of the Hebrew tribe of Dan. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| day-time | The time of daylight. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| dedicating | The action of the verb dedicate v.; dedication. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| defenced | Provided with defences; fenced, protected, fortified. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| despitefulness | The quality of being despiteful; contemptuousness, malicious feeling or action, cruelty. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| destroying | That destroys, destructive. destroying angel U.S. = Danite n. 2. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| diffused | Confused, distracted, disordered, obscure. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| disdainedly | Scornfully, disdainfully. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| disfavour | To mar the countenance or appearance of; to disfigure; to render ill-favoured. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| disquieting | The action of disquiet v.; disturbing; disturbance of peace or tranquillity. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| disquietness | The quality or state of being disquiet; want of quiet; unrest; disturbance. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| door-cheek | One of the side-posts of a door; a door-post. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| door-keeper | One who keeps or guards a door; a janitor, porter, ostiary. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| door-post | The post on each side of a door-way, on one of which the door is hung. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| dry-shod | Having one's shoes dry; without wetting the feet. (With go, pass, walk, etc.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| earthly-minded | Having one's thoughts fixed on the earth; concerned with worldly matters. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| eclipsis | An omission of words needful fully to express the sense. Obs. | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| Elul | The name of one of the Jewish months, being the twelfth of the civil and sixth of the ecclesiastical year. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| emptiness | gen. The condition of being void of contents, of not being filled, furnished, or inhabited. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Ethanim | The seventh month (Sept.–Oct.) of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, the first of the… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| fading | That fades, in various senses of the vb. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| fearer | One who fears. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| feignedly | Pretendedly, not really; deceitfully. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| fig-leaf | The leaf of a fig-tree; chiefly in reference to Gen. iii. 7. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| firstling | The first of its kind to be produced, come into being, or appear; the first product or… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| flesh-pot | A pot in which flesh is boiled. Chiefly in phrase the flesh-pots of Egypt (see Exod. xvi.… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| forecast | A plan, scheme, or device made beforehand. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-court | The court or enclosed space in front of a building, the first or outer court. spec.… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-entry | A front entrance, vestibule. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| foreknowledge | Knowledge of an event, etc. before it exists or happens; prescience. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| foreskin | The prepuce. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| free-willing | That gives or is given freely. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| gazing stock | An object of the people's gaze; a person on whom others gaze or stare. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| glister | A glistering; a bright light, brilliance, lustre. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| grave-clothes | With pl. concord. The clothes or wrappings in which a corpse is laid out for burial. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| grey-headed | Having a grey head of hair. to be or grow grey-headed in, to grow old in, to have served in… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| gusted | Having (a particular) taste; -flavoured, -tasted. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Hagarene | A reputed descendant of Hagar the concubine of Abraham and mother of Ishmael; an Arab… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| hallelujah | The exclamation ‘Praise (ye) the Lord (Jah, or Jehovah)’, which occurs in many psalms… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| handbow | An ordinary bow in which the string is drawn and released by hand, as distinguished from a cross-bow n. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| handbreadth | A Unit of lineal measure in many countries and periods, founded on the width of the… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| handfasted | Contracted or engaged by joining of hands; betrothed. Also fig. in spiritual sense. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| handy | Of, or done by, the hand: manual. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| headband | A band worn round the head, a fillet. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| headstone | (head stone) The chief stone in a foundation; the cornerstone of a building. Also fig. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| heaven-gazer | A person who gazes at or studies the sky; = star-gazer n. 1, astronomer. Also (in quot. 1851): = quadrant n. 7. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Hebrewess | A female Hebrew, a Jewess. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| high-priesthood | The office of high priest. Also fig. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| horsegate | A gate for the passage of horses. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| houseward | Towards the house, or a house. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| ingathering | The action of gathering in or collecting (esp. the harvest); a gathering in, collection. Also fig.… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| instructer | One who instructs. (Formerly frequent; now usually instructor n.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Israelitish | Belonging to the Israelites, or to the nation of Israel; Jewish. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Italianish | Italian, Italic. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Jebusite | Name of a tribe of Canaanites, dispossessed of Jerusalem by David. In 17th c., a nickname for Roman Catholics, esp. Jesuits. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| jesting-stock | An object of jest or ridicule; a laughing-stock. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Jewship | The condition or profession of a Jew; Judaism. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| judgess | A female judge; a woman who judges. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Kenite | A member of an ancient nomadic people from S. Palestine, freq. mentioned in the Old Testament. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| killer | One who or that which kills; a slayer, butcher. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| kind-hearted | Having naturally a kind disposition. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| left wing | The division on the left side of an army or fleet in battle array. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Levitical | Pertaining to the Levites or the tribe of Levi. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| licken | intr. To trust to. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| lifter | One who lifts or raises, in either a material or an immaterial sense. Also with up. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| lisping | That lisps; (of sounds or utterance) characterized by a lisp or lisping. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| long-suffering | Bearing provocation or trial with patience. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| loving kindness | Kindness arising from love; tenderness; compassion; an instance of this. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| meat offering | An offering consisting of food (esp. cereal). In later use also: an offering consisting of animal flesh. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| meteline | A measuring line. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| ministering | That ministers or serves; serving as a subordinate agent; performing helpful services; administering, officiating. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Moabitess | A Moabite woman. Freq. with reference to Ruth ‘the Moabitess’ (Ruth 1–4). | 1530 | Go To Quotation |
| Morasthite | A native or inhabitant of Moresheth-Gath, a town near the Philistine city of Gath. Used… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| morning star | A star or planet that is visible in the morning; spec. (with the) the planet Venus when… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| morning watch | Ancient Hist. The last of the three or four watches into which the night was divided in… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| murderous | Of a person: capable of or intent on committing murder; predisposed or inclined to… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| muscatel | More fully muscatel wine. Any of various sweet wines made from muscat or similar grapes; = muscat n. 1. Cf. muscadel n. 1. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| nay-saying | Contradiction, denial. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Nazarite | A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; spec. (freq. with the) Jesus; = Nazarene adj. 2. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Nethinim | Chiefly in Biblical and derived uses: a non-Israelite servant or slave performing menial… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| nipper | A person, animal, etc., that nips (in various senses of nip v.). | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| noonday | The middle of the day; midday. Also fig. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| nursing father | A foster-father. Freq. fig., esp. after biblical use. Cf. nurse-father n. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| nursing mother | A foster-mother; a wet nurse. Also fig. Cf. nurse-mother n. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| off and on | With interruption and resumption of action; intermittently, at intervals, now and again. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| old aged | Of old age; elderly; ancient. Also as n. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| outcrier | A person who raises an outcry; a person who complains or protests. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| out-quencher | A candle-snuffer. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| outstretched | Esp. of the hands or arms: stretched, held, or reaching out. Also: lying stretched out; extended over an area. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| outsweeping | The action of sweeping out or away. Also: †that which is swept out; refuse, dregs (obs.). | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| outwall | An outer wall of a building or enclosure. Also fig. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| overmorrow | On the day after tomorrow. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| perquellies | Meaning uncertain: app. intended to refer to a means of access to a fortified place. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| plantain | A plane tree, esp. Platanus orientalis. More fully plantain tree. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| priesterly | Priestly. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| prod | To poke, dig, or jab with a finger, foot, or other pointed object. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| redeemed | With pl. concord. Chiefly with the. Saved or redeemed people as a class. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| scatterer | One who scatters, in the senses of the verb. Also, something which scatters; a device for broadcasting seed. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| scornfulness | The quality or state of being scornful; contemptuousness; †contemptibleness. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Sebat | The eleventh month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year and fifth of the civil year. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| separated | In senses of the verb: Set apart or asunder, disjoined, withdrawn, etc. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| shapen | trans. To shape, impart a shape to. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| side-door | A door in the side of a building, garden, or the like; a door on one side of, or subsidiary to, the main door. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| side-post | One of the posts at either side of a doorway; a door-post. (Chiefly in Biblical echoes.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Sidonian | A native or inhabitant of Sidon. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| silver-work | Articles made of silver; silver vessels or ornaments; silverware. †Also pl. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| sin-offering | In the older Jewish religion, an offering (of an animal for sacrifice) made as an atonement for sin. Also transf. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| slaught | trans. To kill, slaughter. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| slaughter | trans. To kill (cattle, sheep, or other animals), spec. for food. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| slippery | Having a smooth, polished, or slimy surface which renders foothold insecure. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Sodomitish | Sodomitical; of Sodom. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| sold | Disposed of by sale. Also fig. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| soothsaying | The practice of foretelling the future or the course of future events; prediction, prognostication. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| sparse | absol. To distribute or scatter abroad in giving. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| spider-web | A cobweb. Freq. fig. or in fig. context. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| spoiler | One who pillages, plunders, or robs; a ravager, spoliator, despoiler. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| spreckled | Speckled. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| sprinkler | A vessel or other device used for sprinkling water or other liquid. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| sprited | = sprighted adj. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| stablisher | One who stablishes. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| stillsitting | Sitting still, inactivity. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| strengthening | The action of strengthen v., in various senses; an instance of this. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| suretyship | The position or function of a surety (see surety n. 7a); responsibility or… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| swaddling-clothes | With pl. concord. Clothes consisting of narrow lengths of bandage wrapped round a… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| tableful | As many people as can be seated at a table; all the people sitting at a table. Freq. with of. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| tallness | The quality of being tall; greatness of stature. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| taxus | Mediæval Latin name of the badger: formerly sometimes used in English. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| tent-door | The entrance or opening of a tent. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| Thammuz | The tenth month of the Jewish civil year, and the fourth of the sacred… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| three-forked | Having three forks or prongs; trifurcate. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| trumpeting | Blowing of a trumpet or trumpets; utterance of a sound like that of a trumpet. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| turbulent | Of persons, their attributes and actions: Causing disturbance or commotion; disposed… | 1538 | Go To Quotation |
| twisting | Pruning, clipping. (In quot. 1535 attrib.) rare. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unawares | Without being aware; unconsciously; inadvertently; unintentionally. Cf. unaware adv. 1. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| underwing | A wing placed under, or partly covered by, another. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unequal | Not characterized by equal or fair treatment; inequitable, unjust, unfair. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unfeignedness | The quality of being unfeigned; sincerity, etc. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| un-Greek | One who is not a Greek. rare. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unguiltiness | (un- prefix 12.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unhallow | trans. To deprive of a holy or sacred character; to profane. (Common 1575 – 1660.) | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unoutspeakable | Unutterable. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unpatiency | = unpatience n. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| unpleasant | To the mind or feelings. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| untimely | Of fruit. Also, not fully or properly ripened; immature. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| upstanding | The action of standing (up), or rising to one's feet; the fact of remaining in place. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| voiceless | Having no voice; lacking the power or impulse to make vocal sounds; uttering no words or speech; dumb, mute. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| wash-pot | A vessel for washing one's hands. Obs. exc. fig. in allusion to Ps. lx. 8. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| well-nurtured | | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| well-tuned | Melodious, in good tune. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| wherewithal | interrog. = wherewith adv. 1. arch. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| wherryman | A man employed on a wherry (sense 1 or 2). | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| whoring | The action of whore v.; fornication; also fig.: spec. in biblical use, applied to idolatry… | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| whorish | fig., esp. in religious and controversial use (often = idolatrous): cf. whore n. 2. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| wifish | Belonging to or characteristic of a woman; womanly; in depreciatory sense, womanish. Obs. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| wine-bibber | A tippler, a drunkard. Now literary and arch. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| wondrously | In a wondrous manner; to a wonderful degree; wonderfully, marvellously. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
| yonside | The farther side; the other side. | 1535 | Go To Quotation |
