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. (Latin loan word )
Calf n.	Young of any bovine family. (b) a dolt; occas. meek, harmless person. 2. A small island lying near a larger one; as in the 'Calf of Man'. Adj: Calfish: raw, untrained.
Calf-ground n.	Place of birth or early part of life
Calf-kill n.	A heath plant (Kalmia latifolia)
Callow adj.	Bald, without hair, down of youth. 2. inexperienced, unfledged 3. bare, low-lying land
Calve vb & n.	Action of glacier losing ice; the ice lost.
Cammock n.	The plant Ononsis spinosa, also called Rest-harrow.
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
Can n.	Vessel for holding liquids, with a handle over the top. 2. Vessel of tin iron in which fruit, fish, etc are sealed up air tight. 3. Chimney pot
Can vb.	The original meaning of the present was 'I have learned'; whence, 'I have known'. 2. To know. 3. To have knowledge. cf canny
Candle n.	Stick of hard wax with a wick. You light the wick to give a steady flame that provides light.
Candlefly n.	A moth.
Canker n.	Cancer, gangrene, ulcer. Anything that frets, corrodes, corrupts or consumes slowly and secretly
Cankeredly adj.	Spiteful, peevish, malignant
Cankerfret n.	Eat with cancer; rust
Canny adj.	Sagacious, prudent, cautious, skilfully cunning.
Cap n.	A head covering, hood, headdress; a top layer. (Latin loan word)
Capsheath n.	The top sheath of a shock or stook, also fig.
Caresome adj.	Troublesome, burdensome
Carf n.	A cut; the cut part of the end of a piece of wood.
Carl pref.	Prefix denoting maleness, as in carl-cat, carl-crab. n 2. a man of the common people, particularly a husband-man 3. villian, base fellow 4. niggard, churl. Carlish, Carlishness.
Carr n.	A rock; now esp. used of insulated rocks of the Northumbrian & Scottish coasts.
Cart n.	A heavy two-wheeled vehicle for carrying loads. 2. A light two-wheeled pleasure vehicle with springs. 3 Loosely, any two or four-wheeled vehicle. Carter.
Cart vb.	To convey or carry in or as a cart. 2. to drive or use a cart
Cart-bote n.	An allownace of wood by the lord to a tenant for making or repairing carts.
Carve vb.	Hew, cut or sculpture (out of stone, ivory or wood). 2. To shape by cutting. 3. Cut up or subdivide.
Cast vb.	Throw, fling, project. 2 In phrases and combinations such as cast aside, cast down, cast up, cast off etc.
Castling n.	The offspring of an untimely birth; an abortion. 2. the second (or third) swarm from one hive in a season
Cat n.	A carnivorous quadruped; a domesticated carnivorous mammal.
Cat-hole n.	Den of the wild cat. OE. only. 2. A hole large enough to let a cat through. Fig, any small or cramped lodging.
Cawl n.	Basket, creel
Chaff n.	The husk of corns or other grains separated by threshing or winnowing. 2. cut hay and straw used for feeding cattle. 3. banter, ridicule, badinage
Chaffer n.	Trade, traffic, dealing, buying and selling. Cognates: Chaffer, Chafferer: trader, dealer. Chaffering: bargaining, haggling
Chaffer vb.	To trade, deal in merchandise, buy and sell, to bargain, haggle about price or terms. 2. haggle or bandy over words.
Chalk n.	An opaque soft white earthy limestone. 2. A chalk-like concretion used in the form of a crayons for drawing.
Chalky adj.	resembling chalk; fragility (esp. of bones)
Chapman n.	Merchant,trader. Chap-woman: female trader; Chafferer, Chapmanship: performance of a chapman. Cognate: Cheap-fare: bargains
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
Cheole, Chel n.	Throat
Chike n.	Childishness, childness
Childing adj.	Pregnant, 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 n.	Choking, suffocation, strangling. Alt spelling: Cheke-lewe
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 Cf: carl
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, apparel, 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 to split, 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.	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 well-being, 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.	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
Cost n.	Way, manner, available course. 2. Hence, probably the modern at nay cost.
Cost n.	The herb called Alecost or Costmary.
Costen vb.	Try
Costening n.	Cost, expense
Costnung n.	Temptation
Cot n.	Small house, cottage, poetical connoting smallness, 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
Cress n.	Name of various cruciferous plants, having mostly edible leaves of a pungent flavour. 2 as a type something of little worth.