List of Old English Words in the OED/C

Old English	English
Calends n.	First day of any month in the Roman calendar. In OE. a month; also, a season. 3. fig, a prelude 4. Calendar, a record. (loan word from latin)
Calf-ground n.	Place of birth or early part of life
Callow adj.	Bald, without hair, down of youth. 2. inexperienced, unfledged 3. (geog): bare, low-lying land
Calve vb & n.	Action of glacier losing ice
Camp n.	Combat, martial contest,fight, battle, war. Eg: Camp-ball: an ancient form of football played by large numbers. cf kemp
Camping vb.	Fight, contend in battle, strive, 2. excell, surpass 3.participate in athletics
Cample n.	Wordy conflict, wrangle, scold, answer in anger
Canker n.	Cancer, gangrene, ulcer.
Cankeredly adj.	Spiteful, peevish, malignant
Cankerfret n.	Eat with cancer; rust
Caresome adj.	Troublesome, burdensome
Carl pref.	Prefix denoting maleness, as in carl-cat, carl-crab
Cast vb.	Throw, fling, project. In phrases and combinations such as cast aside, cast down, cast up, cast off.
Chaffer n.	Trade, traffic, dealing, buying and selling. Cognates: Chaffer: trader, dealer.
Chapman n.	Merchant,trader. Chap-woman: female trader; Chapmanship: performance of a chapman. Cognate: Cheap-fare: bargains
Chaffering n.	Bargaining, haggling
Chapman n.	Trader, merchant. Chapmanship, chapmanhood, chap-woman:female trader.
Chare n.	Deed, work, business; domestic work, turning or moving back, return, retreat. After-chare: repentance
Chark, Chirk vb.	Creak, grating, jar. Cognate: charksome, charkful, charkless
Charr vb.	Murmur, complain
Chawn n.	Gap, cleft, chink, rift, fissure, chine
Chawn vb.	Gape open, cleave, asunder, chine
Cheap vb.	Barter, bargain
Cheapgild,Cheaping n.	Market-place,
Cheeselip n.	Common woodlouse
Chel, Cheole n.	Throat
Chike n.	Childishness, childness
Childing adj.	Pregnant, with, bearing child
Childwite n.	Fine paid to the lord for getting his bondswoman with child.
Chilver n.	Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb
Chithe n.	Sprout, bud, tender blade of grass, chive, glume, awn, chit
Chirm vb.	Vociferate, call-out, roar
Chise adj,	Fastidious, neat, tidy
Choke-lewe, Chekelewe n.	Choking, suffocation, strangling
Costlewe adj.	Costly, sumptious, expensive, lavish in expenditure, extravagant
Chough n.	Chatter, prattle, (birds of the crow family
Churchgrith n.	Right of church sanctuary, church peace, abstinence of violence within the church precincts.
Church-hawe n.	Churchyard, kirkyard, garth
Church-litten n.	cemetery, burying enclosure, church cemetery
Churchship n.	Status of a church
Churl n.	Male human, man simply of no rank, low class of freeman. Cognate: Churldom, Churlhood, churliness
Churn vb.	Agitate, stir, upset, trouble
Clake vb.	Hurt, injury, scathe
Claut, cleach, cletch vb.	grasping hard, clutch. 2. scratch, claw, rake, scrape out
Claver, Clifer n.	Talon, claw
Clayly adj.	Earthly; as opposed to spiritually
Claycold adj.	Cold as dead body
Clead, Cleading n.	Clothing, apparell, attire. Cognates: Cleadful: handsomely attired
Cleam, Cloam vb.	Smear, anoint, dedaub, plaster sticky matter to, adhere
Cleat n.	Wedge
Cleave vb.	That which cannot be clefted, or divided; 2. Easy tosplit, apt to split or asunder, fissible, divisible.
Clee, cloat n	Talon, claw
Clem vb.	Pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger
Clem, Clemmings n.	Pangs of hunger.
Cleve n.	Room, chamber, sleeping place
Clib adj.	Eager, sharp, keen. Also Clibby: sticky
Cloam, Cloamen n.	Earthenware, pottery, clay. Also Cloamer: Potter, maker of earthenware
Cloud, Clod n.	Mass of rock, (geog):hill; consolidated nass of earth & sky.
Clough, Cleugh n.	(geog) Ravine or valley with steep sides
Clum vb.	Mutter, murmur
Clumper n.	Mass, lump
Clumse vb.	Become stiff, numb with cold, stupefy, amaze, daze
Coane n.	Chawn, gap, deft, chink
Coath vb.	Swoon
Coathed adj.	Diseased
Codder n.	Leather-worker, saddler
Cotly adv	Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely
Collow vb.	Make black or dirty with soot, blacken, smut, begrime
Collow n.	Soot, smut, grime, coal dust
Commonweal n.	General good, common wellbeing, prosperity of the community, public welfare
Coom n.	Soot formed on a fireplace, blacksmith furnace, refuse
Coomy adj.	Covered or blackened by soot, dust, grime. 2. Soily, smirchy
Coomb n.	(geog)Small valley, hollow, deep hollow or valley
Cop n.	Summit, top, peak, brow, 2. top of anything, esp. of a hill, 3. the head 4. bird's crest. 5. heap, mound, tumulus 6. ridge
Copen vb.	Desire eagerly, long for, yearn deeply
Copener n.	Paramour
Copse n.	Shackle for any part of the body. Fot-copse: leg iron; Hand-copse: manacle; Wear-copse:neck-copse; 2. Hapse for fastening a gate or door; fastener.
Cornmonger n.	Corndealer, often used with the implication of greed and extortion
Costen vb.	Try
Costening n.	Cost, expense
Costnung n.	Temptation
Cot n.	Small house, cottage, poetical connoting smalness, humbleness,( rather than meanness or rudeness expressed by hut.) That is: cot-folk, cot-town.
Cote n.	Small detached house occupied by the poor. Note: Cottage: a slight building for the shelter of animals (pigs,sheep, fowl)
Cote vb.	To enclose animals, pen
Cotland n.	Piece of land (about 5 acres)held by a cotman, cotlander, cotter.
Cotlif n.	Life, living, dwelling in a cot, see: mynster-lif: a monastery.
Cotset n.	Cottage settler, ( In Doomesday Book)
Couth adj.	As of a quality of things: known, well known, familiar, famous, renown.
Courtleet n.	court record. 2. a court district or jurisdiction or district which jurisdiction extends.
Cove n.	in a rock hollow or recess in a rock. 2. Recess in a precipitious mountside. 3. Seltered place or recess in forest, hills, woods. 4.cell in a pigeon coup.
Cowshard n.	Cowdung, sheard, sharn
Craft vb.	Attain, win
Craftedness n.	Possessing a handicraft
Craftful adj.	Skillful
Cradlehood n.	Infancy, babyhood,
Creek n.	Bay 2.Contrivance, Trick, crooked device
Creekward adj.	In a corner, out of the way