Dr. Johnson's Words
 

[CENTER][U][FONT=Garamond][SIZE=5][COLOR=purple][B]Selections from Dr. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/U][/CENTER]

[COLOR=black]Here are some selections from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755. This was not the first dictionary of English, but it was the first to provide quotes to illustrate the usage of words, and it was the most complete up to that point. Most of these words are still "officially legal" words -- they still appear in dictionaries, although they are often flagged as obsolete.[/COLOR]

[B]altiloquence:[/B] high speech; pompous language
[B]anatiferous:[/B] producing geese or ducks
[B]anfractuous:[/B] winding, devious, tortuous
[B]anthelmintic:[/B] worm-killing
[B]appetence:[/B] carnal desire
[B]argillaceous:[/B] clayey
[B]appropinquate:[/B] to draw near
[B]arrision: [/B]the act of smiling upon
[B]astrigerous:[/B] adorned with stars
[B]axillary:[/B] related to the armpit
[B]balbutiate:[/B] stammer
[B]bibacious: [/B]addicted to drinking
[B]blatherskite:[/B] balderdash
[B]blatteration:[/B] producing a continuous clattering noise
[B]caliginous:[/B] dim, obscure, dark
[B]constuprate:[/B] v.t. to violate, defile
[B]crinigerous:[/B] adj. hairy
[B]debacchation:[/B] n. a blustering or rage
[B]debullition:[/B] n. a boiling over
[B]decollate: [/B]vt. behead
[B]delirate:[/B] vi. to rave
[B]deosculation:[/B] n. the act of kissing
[B]depucelate:[/B] vt. to bereave of virginity
[B]desidiose: [/B]adj. idle, lazy
[B]digladiation: [/B]n. combat with swords; any quarrel or contest
[B]discalceation:[/B] n. the act of removing one's shoes
[B]discase:[/B] vt. to undress
[B]edacious: [/B]adj. voracious; devouring; greedy
[B]elumbated:[/B] adj. weakened in the loins
[B]emiction:[/B] n. urine
[B]empiricism: [/B]n. dependence upon experience without knowledge or art; quackery
[B]ereptation:[/B] n. a creeping forth
[B]eristical:[/B] adj. relating to dispute; containing controversies
[B]eructation:[/B] n. the act of belching
[B]esurient:[/B] adj. hungry, voracious
[B]eventerate:[/B] vt. to open by ripping the belly
[B]exanimous:[/B] adj. lifeless, dead
[B]exiguous:[/B] adj. small
[B]expugn: [/B]vt. to conquer
[B]facinorous: [/B]adj. wicked, atrocious; detestably bad.
[B]facund:[/B] adj. eloquent
[B]famble:[/B] vi. to hesitate in speech
[B]fasuous:[/B] adj. proud, haughty
[B]fatiferous:[/B] adj. deadly, mortal, destructive
[B]faxed:[/B] adj. hairy. now obsolete
[B]feculent:[/B] adj. foul, excrementitious
[B]ferity: [/B]n. barbarity, cruelty.
[B]flagitious:[/B] adj. wicked, villainous
[B]flammivomous: [/B]adj. vomiting out flame
[B]fleer:[/B] n. mockery expressed either in words or looks
[B]flexanimous: [/B]adj. having the power to change the disposition of the mind
[B]foutra: [/B]n. an act of contempt
[B]fream:[/B] vi. to growl or grunt as a boar
[B]frigorifick:[/B] adj. causing cold
[B]fribbler:[/B] n. a trifler
[B]frump:[/B] vt. to mock; to browbeat
[B]fungosity: [/B]n. unsolid execresence
[B]fustian:[/B] n. a high swelling kind of writing made up of heterogeneous, or of words and ideas ill associated; bombast
[B]gallimatia: [/B]n. nonsense; talk without meaning
[B]gloze: [/B]vt. to flatter, to wheedle; to fawn
[B]grum:[/B] adj. sour, surly, severe
[B]gry: [/B]n. anything of little value, as the paring of nails
[B]gulosity:[/B] n. greediness, voracity, gluttony
[B]habnab:[/B] adv. at random; without any rule or certainty of effect
[B]hebitate:[/B] vt. to dull, blunt, or stupify
[B]hector: [/B]n. a bully, a blustering, pervicacious, noisy fellow
[B]horrisonous:[/B] adj. sounding dreadfully
[B]humicubation:[/B] n. the act of lying on the ground
[B]hunks: [/B]n. a covetous, sordid wretch; a miser; a curmudgeon
[B]idoneous:[/B] adj. fit, proper, convenient, adequate
[B]illaqueate:[/B] vt. to entangle or entrap
[B]inceptor:[/B] n. a beginner
[B]increpate:[/B] vt. to chide, to reprehend
[B]indigitation:[/B] n. the act of pointing out
[B]infundibuliform: [/B]adj. funnel-shaped
[B]insulse:[/B] adj. dull, insipid, heavy
[B]iirefragable:[/B] adj. uncontroverable
[B]irrision:[/B] n. the act of laughing at another
[B]jactitation:[/B] n. tossing, motion; restlessness
[B]keck: [/B]vi. to heave the stomach; to reach at vomiting
[B]kickshaw: [/B]n. something uncommon, fantastical, or ridiculous
[B]knubble:[/B] vt. to beat
[B]labify: [/B]vt. to weaken or impair
[B]latitation:[/B] n. the state of lying concealed
[B]latitudinarian:[/B] adj. unconfined in thought
[B]lazar:[/B] n. one deformed and nauseous with filthy and pestilential diseases
[B]lief:[/B] adv. willingly
[B]linguacious:[/B] adj. loqaucious
[B]liplabor:[/B] n. action of the lips without concurrence of the mind
[B]luciferous: [/B]adj. giving light; affording means of discovery
[B]lucrific: [/B]adj. producing gain
[B]luctation: [/B]n. struggle, effort, contest
[B]lusk: [/B]adj. idle, lazy, worthless
[B]malefic:[/B] adj. mischievous, hurtful
[B]megrim:[/B] n. disorder of the head
[B]mimographer:[/B] n. a writer of farces
[B]minacious: [/B]adj. full of threats
[B]moidered:[/B] adj. crazed
[B]muliebrity:[/B] n. the female analog of virility
[B]multiscious: [/B]adj. having a variety of knowledge
[B]mundivagant:[/B] adj. wandering through the world
[B]nescience:[/B] n. ignorance
[B]nugacity:[/B] n. futility; trifling talk or behavior
[B]nullibeity:[/B] n. the state of being nowhere
[B]obambulation:[/B] n. the act of walking about
[B]obequitation:[/B] n. the act of riding about
[B]objurgate:[/B] vt. to chide, to reprove
[B]obmutescence:[/B] n. loss of speech
[B]obstupefactive:[/B] adj. obstructing the mental powers
[B]octonocular:[/B] adj. having eight eyes
[B]operose: [/B]adj. laborious; full of trouble and tediousness
[B]ophiophagous: [/B]adj. snake-eating
[B]opsimathy:[/B] n. late education
[B]orgillous:[/B] adj. proud, haughty
[B]oscitancy:[/B] n. the act of yawning
[B]palmipede: [/B]adj. webfooted
[B]pash:[/B] n. a kiss
[B]peccant: [/B]adj. guilty; criminal
[B]pervicacious: [/B]adj. spitefully obstinate; peevishly contumacious
[B]philosopheme:[/B] n. principle of reasoning; theorem
[B]pickthank:[/B] n. an officious fellow, who does what he is not desired; a whispering parasite
[B]pulicose: [/B]adj. abounding with fleas
[B]quiddit: [/B]n. a subtlety, an equivocation
[B]quodlibertarian:[/B] n. one who talks and disputes on any subject
[B]ruderary:[/B] adj. belonging to rubbish
[B]ruricolist:[/B] n. an inhabitant of the country
[B]salutiferous: [/B]adj. healthy
[B]sarculation:[/B] n. the act of weeding
[B]sciolist: [/B]n. one who knows many things superficially
[B]scopulous:[/B] adj. full of rocks
[B]scrannel: [/B]adj. vile; worthless
[B]scrutation:[/B] n. search; examination; inquiry
[B]segnity:[/B] n. sluggishness; inactivity
[B]sermocination:[/B] n. the act or practice of making speeches
[B]spraints: [/B]n. the dung of an otter
[B]stentorophonic: [/B]adj. loudly speaking or sounding
[B]sternutation: [/B]n. the act of sneezing
[B]stultiloquence:[/B] n. foolish talk
[B]subtilize:[/B] vi. to talk with too much refinement
[B]supervacaneousness:[/B] n. needlessness
[B]swink:[/B] vi. toil, drudge
[B]tabefy:[/B] vi. to waste
[B]tenebricose:[/B] adj. dark, gloomy
[B]tentiginous:[/B] adj. stiff, stretched
[B]teratology:[/B] n. bombast, affectation of false sublimity
[B]tergiversation:[/B] n. shift, subterfuge; evasion; change, fickleness
[B]thrasonical: [/B]adj. boastful, bragging
[B]threap: [/B]vi. to argue much or contend
[B]tonguepad:[/B] n. a great talker
[B]torvous:[/B] sour of aspect; stern; severe of countenance
[B]tralatitious:[/B] adj. metaphorical; not literal
[B]uliginous: [/B]adj. slimy or muddy
[B]visionary:[/B] n. one whose imagination is disturbed
[B]yare: [/B]adj. ready, eager
[B]yarr:[/B] vi. to growl or snarl like a dog
[B]ycleped:[/B] called, termed, or named