| Anglo-Frisian | The hypothetical parent language of the Old English and Old Frisian languages… | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| aphesis | The gradual and unintentional loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word… | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| aphetic | Pertaining to, or resulting from, aphesis. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| blackbird | A common Eurasian thrush, Turdus merula, of which the male has black plumage and a yellow… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| caritive | Applied to the case used (in Caucasian languages, etc.) to express the lack of something. Also absol. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| comitative | Expressing accompaniment; associative. Also as n. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| coyn | A quince. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| delabialize | trans. To deprive of its labial character. | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| graphematic | = graphemic adj. | 1956 | Go To Quotation |
| graphy | A graphic symbol representing a phoneme; = graph n. | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| lemmatic | = lemmatical adj. | 1955 | Go To Quotation |
| marbler | A person who carves or works in marble; a sculptor. Now hist. | 1307 | Go To Quotation |
| measled | Infected with measles, having the rash of measles; (of a pig or pork) affected by cysticercosis (see measles n. 2) (perh. obs.). | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| medialization | The voicing of a consonant; the action of making a consonant a (voiced) unaspirated stop. Cf. medialize v. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| medialize | trans. To voice (a consonant); to make (a consonant) a (voiced) unaspirated stop. | 1861 | Go To Quotation |
| mermaid | An imaginary, partly human sea creature with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail of a fish or cetacean. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| metatony | In Baltic and Slavonic languages: change in syllabic intonation. | 1936 | Go To Quotation |
| Mon-Khmer | A group of Austro-Asiatic languages spoken in South-East Asia, of which the most important are Mon and Khmer. | 1887 | Go To Quotation |
| monophthongization | The process by which a vowel sound changes, or is changed, to a monophthong; an instance or result of this. | 1880 | Go To Quotation |
| muck-fork | A large fork for lifting or spreading dung; = dung-fork n. 1. Also in recent use… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| murder | A flock (of crows). | 1474 | Go To Quotation |
| mutated | That has undergone mutation (in various senses). | 1875 | Go To Quotation |
| mute | A pack (of hounds). | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| neck-hole | The hollow in the back of the neck; the space between the back of the neck and the… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| night-crow | A bird supposed to croak or cry at night and to be of evil omen. Cf. night-raven n. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| non-syllabic | = asyllabic adj.; (Linguistics, of a speech sound) that does not constitute the peak sonority of a syllable. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| nuthatch | Any of various small songbirds of the genus Sitta or the family Sittidae, which creep up… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| obelism | The action or practice of marking something as spurious. | 1860 | Go To Quotation |
| off-break | The act or result of breaking off; a schism. Now rare. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| Osco-Umbrian | Of, belonging to, or designating (any of) a group of ancient Italic languages including Oscan, Umbrian, and related dialects. | 1894 | Go To Quotation |
| oxhide | The hide of an ox; leather made from this. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeotype | A system for phonetic transcription which uses only unmodified Roman letters and other commonly used symbols. | 1867 | Go To Quotation |
| palaeotypic | Of or relating to palaeotype. | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| pant | To breathe hard with quick, short breaths, as from exertion, heat, or agitation; to gasp for breath. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| P-Celt | A speaker of a P-Celtic language. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| peahen | A female peafowl. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| peaked | Having or reaching a peak; projecting, pointed; cut, trimmed, or brought to a peak or point. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| pestle | A club-shaped instrument with a round end, used to crush or pound substances (such… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| phonesis | Utterance of vocal sounds. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| Picuris | A Northern Tiwa language spoken in the pueblo of Picuris in New Mexico. | 1856 | Go To Quotation |
| plane | To make (a surface, etc.) even or smooth; to level; †to spread out evenly or smoothly (obs.).… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| plapper | intr. To make a gentle repetitive slapping or plopping sound, as by moving the… | 1866 | Go To Quotation |
| pocky | Full of or marked with pocks or pustules; pitted; spec. infected with the pox, usually syphilis (now hist.). | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| polyseme | A word or lexical unit that has several or multiple meanings. | 1953 | Go To Quotation |
| polysystemic | Linguistics. That involves several different systems of linguistic analysis. Of a… | 1949 | Go To Quotation |
| prefixal | Of the nature of a prefix; characterized by the use of prefixes; of or relating to a prefix or prefixes. | 1864 | Go To Quotation |
| Q-Celt | A speaker of a Q-Celtic language. | 1891 | Go To Quotation |
| rabbity | Resembling, characteristic of, or suggestive of a rabbit; containing many rabbits. | 1821 | Go To Quotation |
| ray | Any of various broad flattened cartilaginous fishes constituting the order Rajiformes… | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| ripple | trans. To pass (flax or hemp) through a comb (see ripple n.) in order to remove the seeds; to clean of seeds in this manner. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| rippling | The action or process of removing seeds from flax, hemp, etc., by means of a ripple-comb. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| roasting | The action of roast v. (in various senses); an instance of this. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| roasting-iron | = roast-iron n. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| Romanes | The language of the Roma; Romani (see Romany n. 2). | 1863 | Go To Quotation |
| rose tree | A rose plant, esp. a standard rose. | 1350 | Go To Quotation |
| sein | trans. To sign, seal. | 1258 | Go To Quotation |
| sema | = seme n. Also transf. | 1938 | Go To Quotation |
| sextal | Designating a number system based on the number 6 rather than the usual 10. Cf. sexagesimal adj. | 1943 | Go To Quotation |
| sidth | Length; depth. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
| sign | To put a seal upon (a letter or document) as a means of identification or authentication… | 1258 | Go To Quotation |
| Slovincian | An extinct dialect of Kashubian. | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| stalk | An act of stalking game. | 1450 | Go To Quotation |
| superlight | Extremely or exceptionally light. | 1877 | Go To Quotation |
| transitivize | trans. To make (a verb) transitive. | 1979 | Go To Quotation |
| umlaut | A change in the sound of a vowel produced by partial assimilation to an adjacent… | 1852 | Go To Quotation |
| unstressed | (un- prefix 8.) | 1883 | Go To Quotation |
| unsymbolized | (un- prefix 8a(c).) | 1881 | Go To Quotation |
| untrilling | (un- prefix 3 8.) | 1874 | Go To Quotation |
| yary | Quick, sharp; alert, energetic; wary, wide awake; rising early. | 1855 | Go To Quotation |
