List of Old English Words in the OED/CH

Old English	sb	English
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. 2. that which is bought and sold. 3. goods for barter or exchange for sale. 4. wares, goods, merchandise, stuff. 5. 'good chaffer' - a good commodity. 6. cheapfare, chapfare: a good bargain.
Chaf(f)er	n.	A name given to certain beetles, as 'cockchafer, rosechafer'
Chaffer	vb.	To trade, deal in merchandise, buy and sell, to bargain, haggle, deal about price or terms. 2. to treat about, haggle or bandy over prices (or words.) 3. to mingle, interchange, exchange. 4. to talk much and idly.
Chaffer	phr	"To Chaffer Away" - to grant or deal away.
Chaffer	phr	"To Chaffer Down" - to deal down
Chaffer	phr	"To Chaffer Forth" - to offer or entreat.
Chaffer	phr	"To Chaffer Over Words" - to exchange or bandy with or over words.
Chaffered	adj	Trafficked, bartered, haggled, dealt with.
Chafferer	n	A trader, dealer in merchandise, buyer and seller, bargainer, haggler.
Chaffering	n	The action of the verb: trading, buying and selling, dealing, bargaining, haggling.
Chaffwort	n	Chafewort, Chafeweed: a name given to the plant Cinaphalium sylvaticum and other allied species as 'Filago germantica' 2. cudwort or chafewort.
Chaffy	adj	Full of or covered with chaff. 2. consisting of chaff, paleaceous. 3. resembling chaff. 4. fig. (of things and persons) empty and worthless as chaff.
Chalk	n.	An opaque soft white earthy limestone. 2. A chalk-like concretion used in the form of a crayons for drawing.
Chalk	phr	"To Chalk Out" -to draw or mark out with chalk.
Chalked	adj	Marked, rubbed, mixed with chalk.
Chalkiness	n	Having a chalky quality.
Chalking	n	The fertilizing land with chalk. 2. the marking, drawing, writing with chalk. 3. running up an account at an alehouse or pub. 4. tracing out or designing with chalk.
Chalkish	adj	Somewhat chalkish or fragile.
Chalk-line	n	A line drawn by chalk, a straight line (also transfig. and fig.)
Chalk-line	phr	"To Walk a Chalk-line" - to behave with propriety; to keep undeviatingly to a course of action.
Chalk-stone	n	Limestone, lime, a piece of chalk.
Chalk-white	adj	White as chalk.
Chalky	adj.	Resembling chalk; fragility (esp. of bones.) 2. resembling chalk in colour and consistency; chalk-white.
Chap	n	Chapman, buyer, purchaser, seller, customer, fellow, lad. (contemptously; often familiarly and undignified - also applied to a young man.)
Chap	vb	To barter, trade, deal, buy and sell
Chapbook	n	Chapman's book: applied to book-collections and other specimens of popular literature, small phamplets of popular tales, ballads which were formerly sold by iterant dealers (chapman).
Chapfare	n	Cheapfare: a good bargain.
Chapman	n.	Merchant,trader.
Chapmanship	n	The performance of a chapman.
Chap-woman	n	Female trader.
Chare	n.	Deed, work, business; domestic work, turning or moving back, return, retreat. 2. after-chare the returning or coming around again of a time. 3. a turn or movement generally. 4. a turn, piece or stroke of work; housework, cleaning (of a house). 5. a piece of work or business. 6. an occasional turn of work, an odd job, esp. house-work. 7. in plural, the household work of a domestic work; chare work. 8. 'again-chare' - repentance. 5. 'on-chare' - on the turn, in the act of shutting, ajar.
Chare	n.	Narrow lane or wynd; a turn-down.
Chare	vb	To turn up, esp. to turn aside or away (also with by). 2. to lead aside, to drive away. 3. to turn, esp. to turn away or aside, depart, to turn back, return. 4. to turn for one bodily state, belief to another. 5. to do accomplish (a turn of work). 6. to do homework, domestic chores, odd jobs, work by day, as a journey man. 7. to do the cleaning work of a house; a charlady.
Charing	n	To do odd jobs etc.
Charity	n.	A borrowing from ONF: alms-giving in OE. 2. benvolence to the Poor 3, Christian love, esp .of one's fellow man. 4. love, natural affection, spontaneous goodness; fairness, equity.
Chark	vb.	OE. cearcian, to chirk, to creak, to grate, to jar. 2. to make a grating noise with the teeth. 3. to creak as a wheel on an axle; a door on its hinges. 4. To contain constantly; to be querulous.
Charkful	adj
Charkless	adj
Charksome	adj
Charles's Wain	n.	See Carles-wain.
Charlock	n.	Sinapsis arvensis or Field Mustard; also used for other field weeds.
Charr	vb.	Murmur, complain
Charwoman	n	Charlady, a woman hired by the day to do odd jobs of household work.
Charwork	n	Ordinary, routine work.
Chary	adj.	Sorrowful. 2. dear, cherished. 3. careful, cautious, circumspect, wary, 4. shy, fastidious, shy, particular. 5. careful not to waste or part with, frugal, sparing. 6. requiring care or careful handling. 7. charily, carefully.
Chaw	vb.	To chew. 2. mumble 3. ruminate upon, brood over.
Chaw-bacon	n	A bumpkin.
Chawer	n
Chawn	n.	Identical in meaning with chine, but form history is by no means clear. 2. gap, cleft, chink, rift, weft, fissure, chine.
Chawn	vb.	To gape open, cleave, or rip asunder, to cause to gap open, chine
Cheap	n.	The sense "cattle" is found only in OE. 2. barter, buying and selling, merchandizing, gain, profit. 2. a bargain about changing one commodity for another, or giving money, or the like for any commodity, bargaining, trade buying and selling. 3. a market, marketplace (hence in place-names, as Cheapside Eastcheap etc.) 4. that which is given in exchange for a commodity, price, value. 5. exchanged commodity(s), merchandise, goods, chattels, esp cattle. 6. bargain, purchase (from the buyers point of view). 7. 'cheap' as in 'dearcheap' - a dear market, high prices; dearth, scarcity. 8. 'good cheap' - something good in the market for the producer. 9. transfig. - that costs little (trouble, etc.) easily obtained, plentiful, abundant. 10. on good terms, with little effort, cheaply, easily. See: chaffer, chapping, cheaping.
Cheap	vb.	Barter, bargain
Cheap	adj	That may be bought at small cost, low price, inexpensive. 2. transfig. applied to the price itself. 3. the place where the commodity is sold, a market.
Cheapen	vb	To bargain for, ask the price of, bid for, offer a price for. 2. to bargain, chaffer. 3. haggle, bargain about. 4. to make cheap, lower the price. 5. to lower the estimation. 6. caused to be thought little of, bring into contempt, villify. 7. to be cheap fig. and transfig.)
Cheapening	n	The state or action of making cheaper.
Cheaper	n	One who makes things cheaper. 2. one who bids a price, inquires of a price, a bidder, a purchaser.
Cheapfare	n	A fare at a lower rate than the ordinary fare. 2. applied to money at a low rate of interest. 3. bearing a low price in proportion to its intrinsic value; of good value; well worth the price. 4. costing little labor, trouble, effort etc, easily obtained. 5. worthless, paltry, of little value. 6. in poor health, out of sorts, hence cheapness. 7. lightly esteemed, esp. brought into contempt through being made too familiar.
Cheapgild	n.	A market-place, cheaping. 2. the price of what is stolen.
Cheaphouse	n	A house of merchandise.
Cheapie	n	Slang for cheaply produced films, books, etc. 2. a thing of little value, poor or inferior quality. 3. a thing produced on a low budget.
Cheapening	n	Bargaining, buying and selling, marketing, mercantile dealing. 2. a market place.
Cheapish	adj	Somewhat cheap or of low cost.
Cheaply	adv	At or of a low price. 2. at a cheap rate. 3. at small cost (lit. and fig.) 4. in low esteem, lightly, slightingly.
Cheapness	n	Quality of being cheap, low price or cost (also fig.)
Cheapstow	n	A market-place.
Cheapth	n	Cheapness.
Cheek	n.	The jaw, jawbone. 2. side of the face below the eye. 3. insolence in speaking to any one, cool confidence, effrontery, as in the phr. to give cheek. 4. closest intimacy, as in the phr. cheek by jowl. 5. side post of a door, gate.
Cheekbone	n.	The bone of the lower jaw.
Cheek-tooth	n.	A molar
Cheese	n.	The curd of milk separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass
Cheesemonger	n.	One who deals in cheese. 2. a monger of cheese.
Cheeselip	n.	Common woodlouse
Cheole, Chel	n.	Throat
Cherry	n.	A well known stone fruit; the pulpy drupe of certain species of prunus (NO. Rosacae)
Cheery-merry	adj.	Merry, esp, with conviviality
Chesil	n.	Gravel, shingle. Now dial. or in placenames.
Chest	n.	A box, coffer; now mostly a large box of strong construction. 2.coffin. Still dial. 3.case in which certain commodities, as tea, sugar are stored. 4. that part of the body enclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
Chester	n.	A walled town; orig. that had been a roman station in Britain.
Chesterwort	n	See 'Cesterwort.'
Chestnut	n.	The edible nut of the chestnut(Castnea vesca). 2. the hard knob in the skin of the horse at the inner side of the foreleg. 3. a venerable joke or story 4. deep reddish colour
Chew	vb.	To crush bruise or grind by the action of the molar; bite, chomp. 2. masticate food. 3. trans & transfig. to examine or plan deliberately; meditate or ruminate upon
Chicken	n.	The young of the domesticated fowl. 2. a child, one young or inexperienced.
Chicken-hearted	adj.	Of a heart so timorous as a chicken; of a cowardly person.
Chide	vb.	To contend with loud and angry altercation, wrangle, brawl. 2. scold, rebuke, find fault with. 3. drive, compel or repel by chiding.
Chike	n.	Childishness, childness
Chilblain	n.	An inflammatory swelling produced by exposure to cold, affecting the hands and feet, accompanied by burning or with heat, itching and sometimes ulceration.
Childing	adj.	Pregnant, bearing child
Childwite	n.	Fine paid to the lord for getting his bondswoman with child.
Chill	n.	Cold, Coldness
Chill	vb.	To make cold; to affect injuriously with cold. 2. to cause to shiver. 3. fig what tends to repress warmth of feeling; repress deaden in feeling; dampen or dispirit.
Chilver	n.	Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb.
Chime	n.	The rim at the end of a cask formed by ends of the staves. 2. the part of the waterway left the thickest and above the deck plank.
Chin	n.	The part of the face below the upper lip formed by the prominent extremities of the lower jaw. Chinwag, chinless
Chincough	n.	Hooping-cough; From the stem (Saxon):kink- OT., kik, to chink, kink. gasp (by popular etymology connected with chin)
Chine	n.	Deep hollow ravine cut in soft rock by water, as Shanklin's Chine in the Isle of Wight
Chink	vb.	To gasp convulsively for breath in laughing and coughing. Cf Chincough
Chip	n.	A small thin piece of wood or other material, prepared for hewing, cutting, breaking. 2. counter used in a game of chance. 3. anything worthless without flavor, innutritious or dried up. 4. slight fracture caused by chipping.
Chip	vb.	To pare away. 2. hew or cut with an axe; to break off a small fragment etc., 3. crack or break the shell of. 4. In Australia, to harrow
Chirk	vb.	Variant of Chark. 1, To make a strident noise, chirp, squeak, croak 2. To cheer up, to be in a lively spirit
Chithe	n.	Sprout, bud, tender blade of grass, chive, glume, awn, chit.
Chirm	vb.	Vociferate, call-out, roar
Chise	adj.	Fastidious, neat, tidy
Chiule	n.	An Old English or Norse warship
Choke-lewe	n.	Choking, suffocation, strangling. Alt spelling: Cheke-lewe
Choose	vb.	To take by preference all that is available; to select. to gather at pleasure. to pick out by sight.
Chough	n.	Chatter, prattle, (birds of the crow family.)