The following are a list of the sources for the Archaic Dictionary / Archaic Definitions of the Week.

• 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue – busk, pompkin, sixes and sevens, zad.
• A Sea of Words – froward, jackass & jackass rig, lickerous, quillon, quoin.
• The Book of Beasts : A Latin Bestiary of the 12th Century – picus (woodpecker), ybis.
• Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable – funk, new year’s gifts.
• Colonial American English: A Glossary – gimp & pinchbeck.
• Continuum Dictionary of Religion – almoner, ancilia.
• Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World – ghiyar & zunnar.
• Depraved and Insulting English – mageira, skimmington.
• Dictionary & Native’s Guide to the Unknown American Language – ewer, simoleon, tony.
• Dictionary of Early English – demonocracy, facinorous, glebe, igly, nicker, ugsome.
• Dictionary of Newfoundland English – ballicatter, yess.
• Dictionary of the American West – heifer brand, jacket.
• Dictionary of the Marine – cockswain, futtocks, horse in the snow.
• Dictionary of Superstitions – white bird.
• Dictionary of Theories – effluxes.
• Encyclopedia of Civil War Usage – mossyback, possum beer.
• Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your Dictionary Forgot – pinguescent.
• Endangered Words: A Collection of Rare Gems for Book Lovers – kumatage, lychnobite.
• Forgotten English – handfasting, karrows.
• Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth – big heads.
• Hans Wehr Dictionary of Arabic – ammariya.
• Historical Dictionary of Slang – cock-loft.
• Johnson’s Dictionary – fret, hoiden, ospray, promptuary.
• Literary Terms: A Dictionary – gesta.
• Oxford Dictionary of Word Histories – fallow, lilo.
• Partidge’s Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English – x-chaser.
• Pirate Dictionary – disembogue, rummage.
• Prostitute Dictionary of the Old West – cat wagon.
• Sailor’s Word Book – secular inequality.
• Ship to Shore: Everyday Words and Phrases Derived from the Sea – jollies.
• Weird and Wonderful Words – vease.
• What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society – redingote.
• Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life from Prohibition Through World War II – house dick.
• Wordsworth Dictionary of Obscenity and Taboo –belly.