Disused words from Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language:

• figure-flinger: a pretender to astrology and prediction
• pissburnt: stained with urine
• blinkard: one that has bad eyes
• centuriator: a name given to historians, who distinguish times by centuries
• longimanous: long-handed; having long hands
• candlewaster: that which consumes candles; a spendthrift
• carecrazed: broken with care and solicitude
• overyeared: too old
• scarefire: a fright by fire; a fire breaking out so as to raise terror
• traveltainted: harrassed; fatigued with travel
• vowfellow: one bound by the same vow

“Those who have been persuaded to think well of my design, require that it should fix our language, and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without opposition,” he had written in the preface. “[But] when we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years.”