List of Old English Words in the OED/CA

Old English	sp	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
Calf-ground	n	Place of birth or early part of life
Calfish	adj	Raw, untrained.
Calf-like	adj	Resembling a calf or some aspect of one.
Calf-love	n	Puppy love.
Call	n	To call out or cry out in a loud voice; shout, shout out. 2. to command or request to come; summon, to order. 3. to ask or invite to come or attend. 4. to communicate or try to communicate with someone by telephone or email. 5. to wake from sleep, as by a call; waken, waken up. 6. to read over (a roll, list or schedule) in a loud voice. 7. to convoke, convene or call a meeting.
Call	vb	To speak loudly, as to attract attention; shout; cry. 2. to make a short visit; stop at a place on some errand or business. 3. to telephone or try to telephone a person.
Call	phr	"To Call a Spade a Spade" - to speak the truth, tosay things they really are.
Call	phr	"To Call Back" - to request for a second interview or audition, following a successful initial review. 2. to request someone telephone. 3. to return a telephone call to someone at a more convenient time. 4. to return to a shop or residence one has previously visited.
Call	phr	"To Call For" - to shout out in order to summon a person. 2. to shout out in a loud voice. 3. to request, demand. 4. to necessitate, demand. 5. to stop at a place and ask for someone.
Call	phr	"To Call Forth" - to induce.
Call	phr	"To Call In" - to communicate to a base etc. by telephone. 2. to summon someone, esp. for help or advice. 3. to withdraw from sale or circulation.
Call	phr	"To Call It a Day" - to retire, cease the activity of the day.
Call	phr	"To Call It a Night" - to go to bed to sleep, to cease what one has been doing for the night.
Call	phr	"To Call It as One Sees It" - to speak frankly and openly about a given topic.
Call	phr	"To Call It Even" - to declare debts resolved.
Call	phr	"To Call Off " - to recall, cancel or call to a halt.
Call	phr	"To Call Off the Dogs" - to ease up on after inflicting great punishment. 2. during a one-sided sports contest, take from the game a number of top-performing players after dominating opponents.
Call	phr	"To Call On" - to visit a person, to pay a call on someone. 3. to require or ask something of persons, to select for a task. 4. to correct, to point out an error or untruth.
Call	phr	"To Call Out" - to specify, esp. in detail. 2. to order into service; to summon into service. 3. to yell out, to vocalise, audibly annonced. 4. to challenge, to denounce.
Call	phr	"To Call Somebody Names" - to insult somebody childishly. 2. to engage in name calling. 3. calling to insult someone childishly.
Call	phr	"To Call the Shots" - to make decisions; to be in cahrge; to give orders.
Call back	n	The returning of something to a previous state. 2. a return telephone call or radio call, esp. one made automatically to authenticate a log-on to a computer network. 3. a product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
Caller	n	A person who makes a visit; a visitor. 2. one who makes a telephone call. 3. a person who calls at bingo.
Call-in	n	To a radio-station program in which members of the public phone in and talk live with the presenter and others phone-ins. 2. such a program described in (1). 3. such a call or caller as described in(1).
Calling	n	A strong urge to be religious. 2. a job, career, ocupation.
Calling-name	n	A name associated with a telephone number or similar identifier. 2. a name an animal has been to respond to. 3. a nickname. 4. a name by which a person is normally identified in conversation.
Call-in show	n	A TV or radio program,esp. a type of talkshow in which the host and sometimes one or more guests converse with members of the listening or viewing audience who telephone the show or program while it is being broadcast or screened. 2. a chat-show.
Call-out	n	Outward bound teelephone call. 2. (slang) an invitation to fight. 3. an act of one child calling out of another. 4. an excerpt from an article (such as in a newspaper, magazine) that is duplicated in a large font alongside the article so aas to grab the attention of the reader and indicate the topic. 5. a summons to someone designated as being on call.
Callow	n	One who is bald. 2. the stratum of vegetable soil lying above the subsoil.
Callow	adj.	Bald, without hair, down of youth. 2. of birds: without feathers, unfledged. inexperienced, unfledged 3. of land: bare, low-lying.
Callow-mouse	n	The bat.
Callowness	n	Immaturity; condition of being callow or immature.
Calve	n	The action of a glacier losing ice; the ice lost.
Calve	vb	To give birth to a calf, said of a kine, deer. 2. to breed from a cow. 3. to assist in giving birth to a calf. 4. to shed a large piece. 5. to cut into slices and pickle. 6. to crimp. 7. to bear or be susceptible of, being calved.
Calver	n	A cow that produces youing. 2. to cut into slices and pickle. 3. to crimp. 4. to bear or be susceptible of, being calved.
Calving	n	The bringing forth of a calf or young. 2. of a glacier, iceberg moving forth or breaking of of the ice-sheet.
Calvish	adj	Resembling a calf; calf-like. 2. doltish, stupid.
Camel	n	Late OE borrowed from semitic- see olfend.
Cammock	n	Probably borrowed from Celtic languages: the plant Ononsis spinosa, also called Rest-harrow or yarrow.
Camp	n	Combat, martial contest, fight, fighting in single combat, 2. battle, war. 3. camp-ball: an ancient form of football played by large numbers. cf: kemp
Camping	vb.	To fight, contend in battle, strive, 2. to excell, surpass. 3. to take part in athletics. 4. to strive with others in doing something. 5. to wrangle, scold.
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. a chimney pot. 4. toilet (sl). 5. the buttocks.(sl). 6. prison (sl). 7. a measure of capacity.
Can	vb	To put into cans or tins.
Can	n	Knowledge, skill, power, ability.
Can	vb	The original meaning of the present was 'I have learned'; whence, 'I have known'. 2. to know; to know how to do anything. 3. To have knowledge; to have have practical knowledge; to be canny 4. to be skill, have ability, skill, knowledge. 5. to be acquainted with.
Can	phr	"Can Do With" - to need, want, to benefit from.
Can	phr	"Can Do Without" - to not want something, because, perhaps, it would make the matter or situation worse or would be simply annoying.
Can	phr	"Can I Buy You a Drink" - indicates the speaker wishes to buy (usually a girl) a drink at a bar. (considered the best way to attract a member of the opposite sex)
Can	phr	"Can I Come In" - indicates that the speaker is asking for permission to enter a house or room.
Can	phr	"Can We Say" - used sarcastically to draw attention to a motive or an agenda.
Can	phr	"Can You Help Me" - a request for help.
Can	phr	"To Can By Heart" - to know by heart.
Can	phr	"To Can It" - to quit doing something, to put an end to something. 3. to silence.
Can	phr	"To Can One's Good" - to know what is good for oneself.
Candle	n	Stick of hard wax with a wick. You light the wick to give a steady flame that provides light. 2. a source of light. 3. that which illumnates the mind.
Candle	n	Day's Candle, world-candle, god's candle, rodor-candle = (firmament's candle) : all poetical terms for the sun.
Candle	n	"Faraday's Candle" - electricity
Candle	n	" A Candle in the Wind" - a fragile or vulnerable thing or person, likely to be put in jeopardy.
Candle	phr	To Hold a Candle to the Devil" - to serve or assist an evil person. 2. to be active in evil causes.
Candle	phr	"Not Worth the Candle" - not worth the mere cost of supplying necessary light.
Candle	phr	"To Smell of The Candle" - to work by night. 2. of a close and prolonged stage.
Candleberry	n	Myrica ceritera, something extended to include galewort.
Candle-end	n	A thing of short duration or little value; a trifle, fragarant.
Candlefly	n	A moth.
Candle-holder	n	A device for holding one or more candles.
Candle-hour	n	Night-time.
Candle-less	adj	Without a candle or candles.
Candle-light	n	The light given or emitted by a candle or candles. 2. the light of life, emotional and spiritual enlightment. 3. the time at which candles are lighted, dusk, nightfall.
Candle-lighter	n	One who lights a candle or candles. 2. an acolyte.
Candle-like	adj	Resembling a candle.
Candlemaker	n	Someone who makes candles, a chandler.
Candlemaking	n	The making or manufacturing of candles.
Candlemas	n	Te festival in the Christian year the commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary and the presentation of infant Jesus in the temple.
Candler	n	A candlemaker, chandler.
Candle-shine	n	The light thrown from a lit candle.
Candlestick	n	A holder or spike with a socket for a candle.
Candle-wax	n	Any material such as tallow, used to make the body of aa candle.
Candlewick	n	The wick of a candle.
Candlewright	n	A candle maker.
Can-do	adj	Confident and willing to get a job done, as a 'can-do man'
Canhouse	n	A brothel, whorehouse, bordello.
Canker	n	A word used in OE. from Latin : cancer, gangrene, ulcer. 2. anything that frets, corrodes, corrupts or consumes slowly and secretly
Canker	vb	To infect or consume with canker (or cancer). 2. to corrode, rust, tarnish, grow rusty. 3. to infect, corrupt, consume slowly and secretly like cancer.
Canker-bitten	adj	Eating or corroded away.
Canker-eaten	adj	Eaten away by cancer
Cankered	adj	Eaten or consumed by cancer. 2. ulcerated, gangrous. 3. rusted, corroded, tarnished. 3. infected, polluted, venomed. 4. infected with evil, depraved corrupted; fig. malignant, envious. 5. ill-hatred, spiteful, ccrabbed, ill-tempered.
Cankeredly	adj.	Spiteful, peevish, malignant, cankerly.
Cankerfret	n.	Eat with cancer; rust
Canker-looked	adj	Looking or resembling cancer: eaten away.
Cankersore	n	An ulcer in the mouth, called an apthous ulcer, cause a break in the mucuous mambrane.
Cankerwort	n	The dandelion.
Can-like	adj	Resembling a can or container.
Canned	adj	Preserved in cans. 2. drunk. 3. previously prepared, not fresh or new, standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.
Canned heat	n	Fuel made from denatured and jellied alcohol and contained in a cannister with a removable top designed to be burned from that cannister.
Canned laughter	n	Previously recorded laughter that is edited into the soundtrack of a TV program.
Canner	n	Someone who or that which cans. 2. someone who lives off container deposits refunds from recycling.
Cannily	adv	Sagacious, skilfully, deftily. 2. cautiously, slyly.
Canniness	n	Sagacity, skilfulness, prudence, cautionness, gentleness, quietness.
Canning	n	Ability, being able.
Cannot	n	Something that cannot be done
Cannot	vb	To be unable to, can't, forbidden or not permitted to do, is forbidden to, is not permitted to. 2. it is logically impossible
Cannot	phr	"Cannot but" - have to, can't help but, cannot help, to be unable to do otherwise than; does not have the ability to..
Cannot	phr	"I Cannot Stand" - (idiomatic) - hate, dislike.
Cannot	phr	"I Cannot Wait" - to eagerly anticipate, to find it unbearable to wait for a forthcoming pleasurable event. 2. to look forward.
Canny	adj	Northern version of cunning. 2. sagacious, prudent, cautious, skilfully cunning. 3. cautiously, slily. softy, comfortably
Can of worms	n	A complex, troublesome situation.
Can-opener	n	an implement for opening cans and tins.
Cap	n	A head covering, hood, headdress; a top layer. (Latin loan word)
Capful	adj	The amount that will fit into a cap. 2. a light puff of wind.
Capless	adj	Without a cap, hat or head-covering.
Caplike	adj	Resembling or like a cap.
Capping	n	The act of taking off or doffing one's hat as a mark of respect.
Capsheath	n	The top sheath of a shock or stook, also fig.
Care	n	Grief, sorrow (obs) 2.close attention; concern; responsibility. 3. worry. 4. maintenance, upkeep. 5. the treatment of those in need (especially as a career or profession.) 6. the state of being cared for by others. 7. the object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Care	vb	To have the care of. 2. to be in need of care. 3. to sorrow with or because of grief. 4. to mourn or lament. 5. to be troubled, uneasy or anxious. 6. to feel great compassion, concern oneself with.
Care	phr	"For All I Care" - I don't care at all
Care	phr	"See If I Care" - I don't care at all
Care	phr	"To Be Cared for" - attended to or looked after.
Care	phr	"To Care For" - to attend to the needs of, especially in the manner of a nurse or aids. 2. to like or appreciate. 3. to consider to be appealing, tasteful or suitable; also negatively as, "I don't' care for bread.'
Care	phr	"You Can Go To the Devil for All I Care" - i don't give a damn about what happens to you.
Care-away	n	Recklessness. 2. roisterer, a reckless fellow. 3. something that drives away.
Care-away	excl	An exclamation of merriment. 2. 'away with care' and 'care begone'
Care-bed	n	A bed of suffering or grief.
Carefree	adj	Free from care or anxiety. 2. without cares; free of concern or worry. 3. easy, casual, carefree. 4. without difficulty, trouble, worry, light-hearted
Care-freeness	n	State or quality of being free, joyous, light-hearted. 2. the property of being light-hearted, joyous, carefree, cheerful. 3. without care, carefree,
Care-freedom	n	The state or quality of being free, carefree, joyous.
Carefreely	adv	In a carefree, light-hearted manner
Careful	adj	Full of care or grief, sorrowful, sad. 2. full of care and anxieties, worry, troubled. 3. having care for, attentive to potential danger, error or harm, cautious. 4. conscientous and painstaking meticulous.
Carefulness	n	The state or quality of being careful.
Careless	adj	Free from care, unworried or without anxiety. 2. not concerned or worried about. 3. not giving sufficient atttention or thought to, esp. concerning the avoidance of harm and mistake.
Carelessly	adv	Given rhe appearance of being careless. 2. relaxedly; done without care or attention, inattentively.
Carelessness	n	Lack of care, or in a manner of inattention, and/or negligently.
Carelesswise	adv	In a carelees manner or way.
Care of	prp	Referring to distribution of mail by a named intermediary, marked 'John Smith, care of...'
Carer	n	Someone who looks after another, either as a job or through personal or familial responsibilty.
Caresome	adj	Troublesome, burdensome
Care Sunday	n	The Sunday immediately preceding Good Friday, but now used generally for the fifth in Lent.
Caretake	vb	To look after a property as a caretaker.
Caretaker	n	One whoo is responsible for the care or a place, thing. 2. someone who takesx care of a person as a guardian, parent, carer.
Caretaker	n	On a short-term basis, temporary.
Caretaking	n	The act of taking care or taking charge of something.
Careware	n	In computing: charity-ware, freeware.
Care-weed	n	Mourning dress, attire or clothes. 2. clothing of care.
Careworn	adj	Showing the signs of long-term stresses.
Carf	n	A cut; the cut part of the end of a piece of wood.
Caring	n	The act of taking care of.
Caring	adj	Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
Caringly	adv	In a caring manner.
Caringness	n	The quality of being caring.
Carl	pfx	Prefix denoting maleness, as in carl-cat, carl-crab. n 2. a man of the common folk or people, countryman, particularly a husband-man 3. villian, base fellow 4. niggard, churl.
Carl	vb	(obsolete) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
Carlish	adj	Snarly, grumpy, coarse. 2. manly, male.
Carlishness	n	The state or quality of maleness. 2. churlishness, niggardish,
Carles-wain	n	(OE.Carles waegn the wain of Carl(Charlemagne) orig. the wain of Arturus, verbally associated with Arturus. Arthur and Charlemagne are associated in legend.) The asterism comprising the seven bright stars in Ursa Major, known also as The Plough.
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, as a dust-cart. 2. a light two-wheeled pleasure vehicle with springs. 3. loosely, any two or four-wheeled vehicle, a chariot.
Cart	vb	To convey or carry in or as a cart. 2. to drive or use a cart.
Carter	n	One or a person who carries or transported a load of goods for payment. 2. a person who transport a load on a cart that is drawn by a beast of burden.
Cart	vb	To convey or carry in or as a cart. 2. to drive or use a cart
Cart	phr	"To Cart Off" - to transport someone, esp one who is incapable of movement.
Cart-bote	n	An allownace of wood by the lord to a tenant for making or repairing carts.
Cartful	adj	As a much as a cart will hold.
Carthorse	n	A large, strong horse used for pulling heavy loads.
Cart-house	n	A shed in which carts are kept.
Cartless	adj	Without a cart.
Cartload	n	An amount that a cart can carry. 2. any large amount.
Cartway	n	A way along which a cart can drive.
Cart-wheel	n	A wheel of a cart. 2. gynmastic manoever whereby the gynmast rotates to one side or the other while keeping arms and legs outstretched, spinning for one or more revolution.
Cartwright	n	A carpenter who makes carts.
Cartwrighting	n	Doing the duties of a cartwright. 2. a wainwright.
Carve	vb	Hew, cut, carve or sculpture (out of stone, ivory or wood). 2. to shape by cutting. 3. cut up or subdivide. 4. to cheat, swindle.
Carve	phr	"To Carve Out" - to cut a smaller or subordinate estate out of a larger one. 2. to hollow by carving. 3. to create (a report, chance, role, career, victory by hard work, or as if by cutting.
Carve	phr	"To Carve Up" - to cut in pieces. 2. the act or instance of dishonesty prearranging the result of a competition. 3. (slang) the distribution of something, as money or a booty.
Carved	adj	Cut, sculptured, engraved in stone or various other materaial.
Carved	phr	"Carved in Stone" - idiomatic expression meaning unchangeablely set in stone.
Carved	phr	"Carved Out" - to cut, hew, chisel out from stone , wood or other materials.
Carver	n	One who carves wood, ivory, stone or certain other materials. 2. a carving with a carving knife. 3. a butcher.
Carver	phr	"To Be One's Own Carver" - to be or choose for oneself at one's own discretion.
Carving	n	A carved only. 2. the craft of producing a carved object.
Carving	adj	That carves or cuts, cutting, sharp.
Carving-knife	n	A large knife made for cutting cooked meat,
Carver-ship	n	The office of a carver (to the monarch)
Cat	n	A carnivorous quadruped; a domesticated carnivorous mammal.
Cat	phr	"A Cat May Look at a King" - there are certain things that an inferior may do in the prescence of a superior. 2. a purported inferior has certain abilities, even in the prescence of a purported superior.
Cat	phr	"Enough to Make a Cat Speak" - said of something extraordinary (frequent of a good drink)
Cat	phr	"Has a Cat Got Your Tongue?" - idiomatic: why are you not saying anything?
Cat	phr	"To Bell the Cat" - from a medieval fable in which the mice want to put a bell around the neck of a cat, but can't agree who should do it. 2. to undertake a dangerous action in the service of a group or community.
Cat	phr	"To Feel Like Something the Cat Brought In" - to feel exhausted or bedrangled
Cat	phr	"To Live a Cat and Dog" - an unhappy married life.
Cat	phr	"To Make a Cat Laugh" -said of something extraordinarily funny.
Cat-and-Dog life	n	An unhappy marriage.
Cat	adj	Suspectful, involving alternating roles of attack and defence.
Cat-and-Mouse play	n	A relationship in which two partners closely monitor and challenge one another in a suspicious or self-protective manner, often because each party is tempting to gain an advantage over the other.
Catcall	n	A shout or whistling expressing dislike, esp. from a crowd or audience: a jeer, a boo. 2. a shout or whistle, or comment of some nature, usually made towards women
Cat call	vb	To make a cat call: a shout or whistling expressing dislike, esp. from a crowd or audience: a jeer, a boo. 2. a shout or whistle, or comment of some nature, usually made towards women
Cat-caller	n	One who makes a cat call: a shout or whistling expressing dislike, esp. from a crowd or audience: a jeer, a boo. 2. a shout or whistle, or comment of some nature, usually made towards women
Catdom	n	The world or realm of cats. 2. cats collectively.
Cat-eyed	adj	Sharp or keen-eyed. 2. sly or stealthful eyed.
Cat fight	n	A fight between cats. 2. an acrimonius fighting or bickering, esp between females.
Catfish	n	Any fish of the order Silurisform, perhaps so named fot it cat-like whiskers
Cat-footed	adj	Stealthily in movement; skilfully balanced of foot
Cat-footedness	n	The quality of stealth in movement; skilful of balance.
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.
Catkind	n	All cats considered as a group.
Cat lady	n	A women, often elderly, who devotes her time to a domestic cat or cats.
Cat-less	adj	Without a cat or cats.
Catlike	adj	Resembling a cat or cats. 2. slow, quiet, deliberate and stealthy.
Catling	n	A little cat, kitten. 2. catgut, a catgut string. 3. in surgery, a double-edged sharp-pointed dismembering knife.
Catloaf	n	(sl) - the loaflike form of a domestic cat sitting with paws and tail tucked underneath the body.
Catlore	n	Folklore relating to cats.
Catmeat	n	Meat for a cat. 2. cat food consisting of meat. 3. someone who is badly beaten.
Cat meat	n	Cat eaten as meat. 2. meat prepared to be given as food to cats.
Catnap	n	A quick deliberate nap, a short amount of time spent sleeping. 2. a brief light sleep.
Catnapper	n	One who has a quick deliberate nap, a short amount of time spent sleeping or a brief light sleep.
Cat-of-nine-tails	n	A whip having often knotted whip cords, formerly used for flogging as a naval punishment. 2. a leather nine tail whip, used in british penal colonies, and in certain armies.
Cat's-eye	n	A precious stone.
Catsitter	n	One who acts as a minder for a cat in the owner's absence.
Cat's-silver	n	Mica
Cat stretch	n	A stretch position naturally and comfortably assumed by a limber feline or imitated by a human (notably as a gymnastic exercise) on all fours with the back normally arched and pointing upwards.
Cat's whisker	n	something considered to be outstanding; the bee's knees, flea's eyebrows.
Cattily	adv	In a catty manner.
Cattiness	n	the quality of being catty, cattishness, spitefulness
Catting	n	Caterwauling, seeking out or going after the oppodite sex (contemptously
Cattish	adj	Feline or catlike, resembling or being of the nature or manner of a cat. 2. spiteful or malicious in charcter. 3. sly, spiteful or marked by malice.
Cattishly	adv	In a cattish manner or spirit. 2. in a spiteful, malicious or sly manner.
Cattishness	n	The property of being cattish. 2. somewhat spiteful, malicious or sly.
Cat-tree	n	A structure of platforms and scratching posts designed for a cat to play on.
Catty	adj	Of or pertaining to cats. 2. concerned with breeding or exhibiting cats. 3. with subtle hostility in an effort to hurt, annoy or upset particularly among women. 4. resembling or characteristic of a cat. 5. spiteful, nasty, malicious, snide,
Catwalk	n	In a nautical sense: an elevated enclosed passage providing access fore and aft of the bridge. 2. a narrow elevated stage on which model s parade. 3. any business of making clothes for fashion shows.
Catwalker	n	A fashion model on the catwalker.
Cat-wise	adv	In the way or manner of a cat.
Catwitted	adj	One or or part to someone who is spiteful, obstinate and small-minded.
Catwort	n	Nepetia cataria, catmint, cat's play.
Caul	n	Cabbage, cole
Cawel	n	OE: cawel, cawl, cole.
Cawel-hert	n	Cawel (cabbage) & Hert (heart with the obsolete meaning of stomach)- applied to the hare.
Cawel-worm	n	Caterpillar, kaleworm.
Cawelwort	n	Colewort, cabbage.
Cawl	n	Cabbage, colewort, cole, cauliflower.
Cawl	n	Basket, creel