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.