Obsoleteness: alternatives and connections

An obsolete or colloquial contraction of the old form hem, them.

A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it…

An obsolete form of admiral.

To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.

A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."

An obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender threads.

Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.

An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

An obsolete name for the cornet-a-piston.

A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

Cessation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse.

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable o…

Obsolete; out of use; state; insipid.

Plural of eye; -- now obsolete, or used only in poetry.

A flood; a creek or inlet; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London.

The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness; one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common law; -- an ob…

An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metal…