| abaton | A place to which access is restricted, esp. a sacred space or enclosure; a sanctuary. | 1829 | Go To Quotation |
| accessit | In France: an honourable mention in an examination or competition. Also with… | 1753 | Go To Quotation |
| acerbitous | Characterized by acerbity; acerbic. | 1870 | Go To Quotation |
| advisal | The action of advising someone or something; the state or fact of being advised. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| aegrotat | In a university or college: a certificate that a student is too ill to attend an examination, etc. Cf. aeger adj. n. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| aftershock | A less powerful shock, often one of a series, occurring after the main shock of an earthquake. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| Albert | A gold coin formerly current in Flanders and the Netherlands. rare. | 1740 | Go To Quotation |
| all-or-nothing | Watchmaking. all-or-nothing piece n. a part of the mechanism in a repeating watch which… | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| Americanitis | An attitude or psychological condition considered as particularly characteristic… | 1882 | Go To Quotation |
| ancestrian | = ancestrial adj. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglification | The action or process of making something or someone English (or British) in character; = anglicization n. 1. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglo-Saxonist | An expert in or student of Old English language, literature, and culture. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglo-Scandinavian | Of, relating to, or involving England and Scandinavia; esp. relating to the Vikings in England or their culture. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| Anglo-Welsh | With pl. concord. With the. English-speaking Welsh people, considered collectively… | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| anigh | Nigh, near to. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| Ante-Communion | In full Ante-Communion Service, a popular term for that part of the Communion Service in… | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-Gallic | = anti-Gallican adj. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| anti-Gallican | One opposed to the French. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| antiseptic | Counteracting putrefaction; antiputrescent. | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| appendicularian | A member of this family. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| aqua- | Latin aqua ‘water’ used as a combining form or quasi- adj., esp. in expressions… | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| archaeologically | In an archæological manner, from an archæological point of view. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| archiepiscopate | An archbishop's tenure of office; also = archbishopric n. | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| arter | = after adv. prep. conj. | 1745 | Go To Quotation |
| automatize | trans. To reduce (a person) to an automaton. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| back bench | Any one of the benches in the House of Commons or similar assembly occupied by members who… | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| back-head | False hair worn at the back of the head; a chignon. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| Bahaman | Of, relating to, or native to the Bahamas; = Bahamian adj. | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| bailer | A ball so bowled as to hit the bails. | 1833 | Go To Quotation |
| baneberry | The fruit of a plant Actæa spicata (family Ranunculaceæ); also the plant itself, otherwise called Herb Christopher. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| barghest | A goblin, fabled to appear in the form of a large dog, with various horrible… | 1732 | Go To Quotation |
| baseplate | A sheet of metal situated at or forming the bottom of an object. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| batsman | One who handles the bat at cricket. batsman's wicket, a cricket pitch more favourable to the batsman than to the bowler. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| battue | The driving of game from cover (by beating the bushes, etc. in which they lodge) to a… | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| bestowal | presentation, gift. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| bettermost | Best (relatively, rather than absolutely). | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| biographize | trans. To write a biography of; to portray biographically. Usually in pass. Also intr. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| bivalved | in Zool. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| blackguardly | Of or characteristic of a blackguard (blackguard n. 6); worthless; (of language) scurrilous. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| blood-stopper | A substance, device, etc., which stops bleeding. Cf. blood-stauncher n. 1. | 1754 | Go To Quotation |
| bluer | One who blues metal. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| buggy | A light one-horse (sometimes two-horse) vehicle, for one or two persons. Those in use… | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| -busting | Forming adjectives designating something which bursts or breaks something denoted by… | 1761 | Go To Quotation |
| cachalot | A genus of whales, belonging to the family Catodontidæ, distinguished by the presence of… | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| camisole | A kind of sleeved jacket or jersey. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| cannelure | A groove, fluting; also called channelure n. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| cantarist | A chantry priest. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| cantonment | The place of lodging assigned to a section of a force when cantoned out; also (often in pl.)… | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| carene | (See quot. 1755.) | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| Carlism | Attachment to Don Carlos, second son of Charles IV of Spain, and his heirs, as… | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| cervanthropy | | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| chalypsography | Steel engraving. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| chore | ‘A small piece of domestic work, a little job, a char’ (Bartlett Dict. Americanisms); see chare… | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| chryselephantine | Of gold and ivory: applied to statues overlaid with gold and ivory, such as the Olympian Zeus and Athene Parthenos of Phidias. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| claimant | One who makes or enters a claim; one who has a claim upon anything. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| cloisonné | Divided into compartments: applied to enamels. Also short for cloisonné enamel, and attrib. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| co-estate | An estate or state possessing co-ordinate authority or rank with another. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| cogon | More fully cogon grass. A tall perennial rhizomatous grass, Imperata cylindrica… | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| comatose | Affected with coma; in a state of coma. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| comedietta | A species of drama of a slighter character than comedy; a short or slight comedy. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| Confessionalian | One who advocates the principle that a church should have a formal Confession of Faith. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| configurative | Of or pertaining to configuration. | 1787 | Go To Quotation |
| contrepied | The contrary course; the opposite. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| Corsican | A native or inhabitant of Corsica; the Corsican dialect of Italian. | 1739 | Go To Quotation |
| death-worm | = death-watch n. 1. Obs. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| debarkation | The action of landing from a ship; disembarkation. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| deficit | A falling short, a deficiency; the amount by which a sum of money, or the like, falls… | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| dismast | trans. To deprive (a ship) of masts; to break down the masts of. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| dizdar | The warden of a castle or fort. | 1768 | Go To Quotation |
| Doctrinarian | pl. The Brethren of Christian Doctrine, or Christian Brothers (French doctrinaires), a… | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| droit de suite | Feudal Law. The legal right of a lord to seize a serf who has fled, or the property of such… | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| Druidic | Of or pertaining to the Druids. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| electric atmosphere | The space around an electrically charged object within which its electrical properties are manifested. | 1745 | Go To Quotation |
| electrization | The action or process of electrifying something, electrification; spec. the… | 1745 | Go To Quotation |
| electrometer | Originally: an instrument for ascertaining the presence of an electric charge on an… | 1749 | Go To Quotation |
| Europeanly | In a European way or style; on a European scale. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| ewte | | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| eye-draught | A drawing or plan made by the eye, not by actual measurement. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| face-to-facedly | In a face-to-face manner; directly. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Faustian | Of or pertaining to Johann Faust (in Latinized form Johannes Faustus), a wandering… | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| Feinne | With pl. concord. The soldiers of the ancient Irish militia. Cf. Fenian n. adj. and Fian(n) n. | 1782 | Go To Quotation |
| fenestella | A small window-like niche in the wall on the south side of the altar, containing the piscina and often the credence. | 1797 | Go To Quotation |
| fiddle-bow | The stringed bow with which a fiddle is played; = fiddlestick n. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| filigree-work | Work in filigree. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| flanching | The sloping fillet of cement or mortar in which the base of a chimney-pot is bedded. Also called flanched work. | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| Fletcherian | Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Fletcher or his works. | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| float-ways | In the manner of a float (or single-cut file), like a float. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| fore-cabin | A cabin in the forepart of the vessel; spec. one for second-class passengers in… | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| formularization | The action of formularizing; also, a formularized statement. | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| fossiled | Converted into a fossil, fossilized. Freq. fig. | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| fossilry | A collection of fossils. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| funster | One who makes fun. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| furry | A festival observed at Helston, Cornwall, on the eighth of May; also, a peculiar dance used… | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| gambler | One who habitually plays for money, esp. for extravagantly high stakes (see the vb.). | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| garrotte | trans. To execute by means of the garrotte. | 1851 | Go To Quotation |
| geodete | = geodesist n. | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| Georgian | Of or relating to any of the first four Georges, kings of Great Britain from 1714 to 1830… | 1745 | Go To Quotation |
| gimp | A neckerchief or stomacher (worn by a nun). | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| ginkgo | The maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba) native to China and Japan and cultivated… | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| God-fearing | That fears God, deeply religious. | 1835 | Go To Quotation |
| golah | A store-house for grain, salt, etc. | 1771 | Go To Quotation |
| grape-shot | Small cast iron balls, strongly connected together, so as to form a charge for cannon (see quots. 1769 1867). | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| great go | University slang. The final examination for the degree of B.A. (At Oxford now called greats.) (Cf. little-go n.) | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| grog | A drink consisting of spirits (originally rum) and water. half and half grog, a drink made… | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| groggy | Intoxicated. Also, characterized by drinking habits, bibulous. | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| guaranty | = guarantee v. 3. Also, to secure (a person) in the possession of something. | 1732 | Go To Quotation |
| guarda-costa | A Spanish vessel used for the protection of the coast; a custom-house cutter. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| Guatemalan | A native or inhabitant of Guatemala, the most northern republic of Central America, bordering on Mexico. | 1823 | Go To Quotation |
| gun-lock | attrib., as gun-lock hammer, gun-lock maker, gun-lock screw, gun-lock spring. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| guttling | The action of guttle v.; gormandizing. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| hazing | A sound beating, a thrashing. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| historicize | trans. To make (a person or thing) historical or the subject of a history; to situate in a historical context. Also intr. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| hotbed | trans. To promote the rapid growth or development of (a person or thing). Now rare. | 1826 | Go To Quotation |
| house-training | Instruction or schooling given or undertaken at home, esp. in housekeeping (housekeeping n. 1b); an instance of this. Now rare. | 1848 | Go To Quotation |
| huzz | (See quot. 1747.) | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| ice-island | A ice field or floe regarded as an extensive island; (also) spec. = iceberg n. 2a. | 1750 | Go To Quotation |
| ignotism | A mistake due to ignorance. | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| impracticability | Incapability of being done or carried out; practical impossibility. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| incontemptible | Defined by N.E.D. as ‘not to be despised’ and cited from Johnson's Debates in Parliament… | 1743 | Go To Quotation |
| inflatable | Capable of being inflated, blown out, or distended with air or gas. | 1878 | Go To Quotation |
| isochronism | The character or property of being isochronous, or of oscillating or taking place in equal spaces of time. | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| kephalo- | Variant of cephalo- comb._form, combining < Greek κεϕαλή head, preferred by some… | 1802 | Go To Quotation |
| keystoned | Constructed or fitted with a keystone. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| knick | trans. and intr. To snap, or crack lightly (the fingers, etc.); to ‘knack’ lightly. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| knife-handle | Popular name of species of Razor-shell, Solen siliqua or S. ensis. Chiefly U.S. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| lammie | A thick quilted woollen over-garment worn by sailors in cold weather. Also lammy coat, lammy suit. | 1886 | Go To Quotation |
| lapilli | With pl. concord. Small stones or pebbles; now only spec. of the fragments of stone ejected from volcanoes. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| laureateship | The personality of a laureate (used jocosely, with possessive pron., as a title). | 1732 | Go To Quotation |
| law-hand | The style of hand-writing used for legal documents. Also occas., matter written in this hand. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| Lazarist | ‘The popular name for the “Congregation of the Priests of the Mission” founded by St.… | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| levelization | ‘The act of levelling or reducing to equality’. | 1859 | Go To Quotation |
| litho- | ? one who examines stones. | 1693 | Go To Quotation |
| livraison | A part, number, or fascicule (of a work published by instalments). | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| Lorrainer | A native or inhabitant of Lorraine. Also attrib. Cf. Lotharingian n. adj. | 1743 | Go To Quotation |
| lugger | (See quot. 1867.) | 1757 | Go To Quotation |
| lunge | quasi- trans. with cognate obj. To deliver (a kick, a thrust); also with out. | 1735 | Go To Quotation |
| lycoperdon | The fungus Puff-ball, Lycoperdon Bovista. | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
| macaronicism | Macaronic style. | 1830 | Go To Quotation |
| machicolated | Provided with machicolations. Also fig. (in quot. 1849 prob.: crenellated) and as pa. pple. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| mag | A magazine publication; = magazine n. 6b. | 1742 | Go To Quotation |
| manis | Originally: a pangolin, a scaly anteater. Now (usually) (in form Manis): the genus… | 1750 | Go To Quotation |
| man-milliner | A male milliner. Hence derogatory: a vain, trifling, or effeminate man (rare in later use). | 1787 | Go To Quotation |
| manumisable | Able to be released from a legal burden or obligation. | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| martyrologe | = martyrology n. 1a. Now rare. | 1500 | Go To Quotation |
| mast | A heavy wooden cue, the broad end of which is used for hitting the ball. Cf. mace n. 3a. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| Messidor | The tenth month of the French revolutionary calendar (introduced in 1793), lasting from 19 June to 18 July. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| meteorette | A small shooting star. | 1876 | Go To Quotation |
| mezzotint | trans. To engrave in mezzotint. | 1827 | Go To Quotation |
| miscopy | An error in copying. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| monture | A mount, frame, or setting; (also) the manner in which something is set or mounted. See mounture n. 4 8. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| mottoed | Inscribed with or bearing a motto. | 1738 | Go To Quotation |
| mounseer | A Frenchman; (also) a French ship. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| muddlesome | Characterized by muddling. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| multidimensional | Chiefly Science. Of or relating to space, or a space, of more than three (occas.: more than two) dimensions. | 1884 | Go To Quotation |
| mux | Eng. regional (south-west.). Mud, dirt, mire; a muddy or miry state. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| nacred | Covered with or surrounded by nacre; having the pearly lustre of nacre. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| neo-Latin | Of or relating to Latin as used since the late 14th cent. by authors seeking (esp.… | 1850 | Go To Quotation |
| nervo- | | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| nickel | A hard silvery-white chemical element, atomic number 28, which is one of the transition… | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| niellist | A person skilled in, or specializing in, the art of niello. | 1841 | Go To Quotation |
| nif | = if conj. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| non-effective | A member of the armed forces who is not available for active service (opposed to effective n. 2a). Also in extended use. | 1741 | Go To Quotation |
| non-electrized | Not electrified. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| Northern Irishman | A man from the north of Ireland (now usu. from Northern Ireland). Cf. Ulsterman n. at Ulster n. 4b. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| numismatic | Of or relating to coins, coinage, or medals. | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| numismatist | An expert in or student of numismatics; a coin collector. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| oversaturate | trans. To saturate excessively; to provide with more than sufficient of a substance… | 1745 | Go To Quotation |
| palmsunning | The action of gathering willow branches on or for Palm Sunday. Cf. palming n. | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| pandour | A member of a military force originally organized in Croatia in 1741 by Baron Franz… | 1742 | Go To Quotation |
| pension fund | A fund from which pensions are paid. | 1757 | Go To Quotation |
| percurration | A journey; a crossing. | 1785 | Go To Quotation |
| philogenitive | Favouring procreation; (also) sexually indulgent. Cf. philoprogenitive adj. 2. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| phosphoretic | Containing or combined with phosphorus. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| pickaxe | trans. To break or work at with a pickaxe. Also with away, down, open, etc. Also fig. and in extended use. | 1800 | Go To Quotation |
| pictarnie | A tern (genus Sterna). Also (rare): the black-headed gull, Larus ridibundus. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| pig metal | Metal, usually iron, as it comes from a smelting furnace in the form of pigs (pig n. 11). | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| pikanier | A soldier armed with a pike; a pikeman. | 1816 | Go To Quotation |
| pile-driven | Supported on or secured by piles driven into the ground. Also fig. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| pokeweed | A large-leaved, coarse, succulent North American plant, Phytolacca americana (family Phytolaccaceae… | 1751 | Go To Quotation |
| polemist | = polemicist n. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| polypharmacy | The use of multiple drugs or medicines for several concurrent disorders (now esp.… | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| pomology | The branch of horticulture concerned with the cultivation of fruit. Also (rare): a treatise on this subject. | 1818 | Go To Quotation |
| Popish | Of, relating to, or characteristic of the poet Alexander Pope or his work; = Popean adj. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| populated | That has been devastated or ravaged. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| Prairial | The ninth month of the French revolutionary calendar (introduced in 1793), lasting from 20 May to 18 June. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| priori | = high priori n. at high adj. 17g. | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| pro | = pro-proctor n. | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| prolocutress | = prolocutrix n. | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| prude | intr. To act prudishly; to affect prudish opinions, attitudes, etc. Also †trans. with it. | 1736 | Go To Quotation |
| pugilism | The art, sport, or practice of fighting with fists; boxing. Also fig. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| pulka | A Lapp one-person travelling-sledge shaped like the front half of a boat, typically drawn… | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| puttish | Doltish; stupid. See put n. | 1738 | Go To Quotation |
| quidding | The action of quid v. (in various senses). | 1778 | Go To Quotation |
| quirk | intr. To grunt, croak, groan, sigh, etc.; to grumble, complain. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| quirking | That grunts, croaks, etc.; that grumbles. Cf. quirk v. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| quixotish | = quixotic adj. | 1743 | Go To Quotation |
| reapport | trans. To report (a person or thing); to give a report or account of. | 1486 | Go To Quotation |
| re-Christianize | trans. To Christianize again. | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| re-endowment | Renewed endowment; esp. the action or fact of re-endowing an institution with money. Also: an instance of this. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| religionizing | That religionizes. | 1822 | Go To Quotation |
| removalist | A person in favour of the removal of something. | 1831 | Go To Quotation |
| renaissant | Freq. with capital initial. Of or relating to the Renaissance. In quot. 1886 as n.: the Renaissance style. Cf. Renaissance n. 1a. | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| reposting | The action of posting a letter, etc., for a second or further time. Cf. remailing n. 1. | 1834 | Go To Quotation |
| re-sort | trans. To sort again or differently. | 1836 | Go To Quotation |
| ret. | = retired adj. 4. Cf. ret'd adj. | 1767 | Go To Quotation |
| retable | A structure at the back of an altar consisting of a shelf for ornaments, or of a frame enclosing a reredos or similar decoration. | 1817 | Go To Quotation |
| retroposition | Relocation to an earlier time. Obs. rare. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| rhythmometer | A metronome. | 1812 | Go To Quotation |
| rhyton | A type of drinking vessel, often in the form of an animal's head, with an opening at the… | 1820 | Go To Quotation |
| ridge tiling | A set of ridge tiles on a roof. Also (occas.): the action of fixing ridge tiles on a roof. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| rightship | Justice, correctness; (also) truth, sense. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| rock-bird | A seabird that frequents rocky cliffs; esp. the puffin, Fratercula arctica. | 1765 | Go To Quotation |
| rodless | Without a rod or rods; having no rod; esp. having no fishing rod. | 1825 | Go To Quotation |
| Roquefort | (a proprietary name for) a soft blue cheese with a strong flavour made from ewes' milk… | 1762 | Go To Quotation |
| routineer | A person who acts according to routine; spec. one who adheres to an established or… | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| Roxburghe | attrib. Designating a style of bookbinding designed for the Roxburghe Club and characterized… | 1839 | Go To Quotation |
| rumple | An act of breaking, a breach. | 1746 | Go To Quotation |
| saffranon | = safflower n. 1. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| saggar | A protecting case of baked fire-proof clay in which the finer ceramic wares are… | 1752 | Go To Quotation |
| sangaree | A cold drink composed of wine diluted and spiced, used chiefly in tropical countries. | 1736 | Go To Quotation |
| scald | = scalded adj. | 1791 | Go To Quotation |
| secreter | One who conceals or hides away. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| senatorial | With reference to modern senates. | 1742 | Go To Quotation |
| sherry | Under the influence of sherry; drunk. | 1770 | Go To Quotation |
| sirship | The position of a Sir; baronetcy. | 1873 | Go To Quotation |
| sleep-at-noon | (See quots.) | 1779 | Go To Quotation |
| sleep-walker | One who walks while asleep; a somnambulist. | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| smasher | Anything uncommon, extraordinary, or unusual, esp. unusually large or excellent. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| snap-shooting | The practice of taking snap-shots (see snap-shot n. 1 and 2). | 1872 | Go To Quotation |
| snouch | A jibe, jeer, or scoff. | 1780 | Go To Quotation |
| sourer | One who sours or causes sourness. | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| spiflicate | trans. To deal with in such a way as to confound or overcome completely; to treat… | 1749 | Go To Quotation |
| squabblement | Squabbling; petty quarrelling. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| station house | A building in which a coastguard or coastguard service is based; a coastguard station. | 1805 | Go To Quotation |
| stive | Dust; esp. the floating dust of flour during the operation of grinding. | 1793 | Go To Quotation |
| stoop-gallant | Something that humbles ‘gallants’; originally, a name for the ‘sweating sickness’; later used gen. Also attrib. or adj. | 1551 | Go To Quotation |
| stunkard | Sulky, sullen. | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| subsultive | Involving or characterized by sudden leaps, jerks, or starts; (also) moving by jerks or starts. | 1750 | Go To Quotation |
| Sudder | Chief, supreme: applied esp. to high government departments or officials. | 1787 | Go To Quotation |
| Sunday outer | A person (esp. a domestic servant) who is taking his or her Sunday out. | 1837 | Go To Quotation |
| supp | A supplement to a book, periodical, or document; = supplement n. 1b. Often as the second… | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| sustentaculum | A supporting part or structure; esp. the sustentaculum tali (see Compounds); Zool. a… | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| swindling | The action of swindle v.; the practice of a swindler; fraud or imposition for purposes of gain; systematic cheating. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| tag | A children's game in which one player pursues the others until he touches one of them, who in turn becomes pursuer; = tig n. | 1738 | Go To Quotation |
| technicist | A person skilled in the formal or practical technique of a particular art or… | 1828 | Go To Quotation |
| telegraphic | In reference to the earlier ‘telegraphs’ or signalling devices. Now rare. | 1794 | Go To Quotation |
| Thrips | Erroneously applied to any one of the Jassidæ, a hemipterous family of leaf-hoppers that feed on the grape-vine. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| tilt-hammer | A heavy hammer used in forging, fixed on a pivot and acted upon by a cam-wheel or… | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| tindle | In pl., A name given locally to small fires lighted out of doors at the beginning of May and November. (Cf. tandle n.) | 1784 | Go To Quotation |
| tinley | Variant of tindle n. dial. | 1788 | Go To Quotation |
| tire | In ribbon-weaving: A cord which pulls the high-lisses (lisse n.) up. | 1759 | Go To Quotation |
| tomahawk | trans. To strike, cut, or kill with a tomahawk. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| touting | The action of tout v. | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| trachomedusan | A hydrozoan of this sub-order. | 1907 | Go To Quotation |
| trant | intr. To follow the occupation of a tranter. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| trippist | = tripper n. 4. | 1792 | Go To Quotation |
| tubercled | Furnished or affected with tubercles; tuberculate. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| twitch | intr. To gather and destroy twitch or couch-grass; also trans. to clean (land) from twitch. | 1795 | Go To Quotation |
| Ukrainer | = Ukrainian n. a. | 1814 | Go To Quotation |
| ultimatum | In diplomacy, the final terms presented by one power (or group of powers) to… | 1731 | Go To Quotation |
| unefficacious | (un- prefix 7 5b.) | 1744 | Go To Quotation |
| unelectrified | (un- prefix 8.) | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| unliterally | (un- prefix 11.) | 1737 | Go To Quotation |
| unluminous | (un- prefix 7.) | 1773 | Go To Quotation |
| unmidwifed | (un- prefix 9.) | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| variolist | One who prefers smallpox to vaccination. | 1799 | Go To Quotation |
| veigle | trans. To inveigle. Also absol. | 1745 | Go To Quotation |
| Vendean | An inhabitant of La Vendée, esp. one who took part in the insurrection of 1793 against the Republic. | 1796 | Go To Quotation |
| verseless | Lacking verse or poetry; unable to compose verses. | 1738 | Go To Quotation |
| versiculus | A versicle. Chiefly in pl. | 1755 | Go To Quotation |
| veterinary | veterinary art, veterinary science, etc. | 1790 | Go To Quotation |
| Visitandine | A nun belonging to the Order of the Visitation, founded in 1610 by Mme. de Chantal… | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| waterproof | Impervious to water; capable of resisting the deleterious action of water. | 1736 | Go To Quotation |
| well-served | | 1747 | Go To Quotation |
| white gold | Platinum. Obs. | 1764 | Go To Quotation |
| Wrenean | Of or pertaining to, following or consonant with the architectural theories or practices of… | 1813 | Go To Quotation |
| xebec | A small three-masted (originally two-masted) vessel, commonly lateen-rigged but with… | 1756 | Go To Quotation |
