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|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.
 
|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.
 
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|Charkful ||adj||Full of grating, creakingm grating noise. 2, quarrelsome.
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|Charkless ||adj||Without or lacking a creaky, grating noise. 2, without quarrel or compliant.
 
|Charkless ||adj||Without or lacking a creaky, grating noise. 2, without quarrel or compliant.
 
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|Charksome ||adj||Creaky, grating, chirky. 2. querulous.
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|Charksome ||adj||Creaky, grating, chirky. 2. querulous.
 
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|Charles's Wain ||n.||See Carles-wain.
 
|Charles's Wain ||n.||See Carles-wain.
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|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.
 
|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.
 
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|Chaw ||vb.||To chew. 2. mumble 3. ruminate upon, brood over.
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|Chaw ||vb.||To chew. 2. mumble 3. ruminate upon, brood over.
 
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|Chaw-bacon ||n||A bumpkin.
 
|Chaw-bacon ||n||A bumpkin.
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|Cheapness ||n||Quality of being cheap, low price or cost (also fig.)
 
|Cheapness ||n||Quality of being cheap, low price or cost (also fig.)
 
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|Cheap shot ||n||A deliberate, unsportsmanlike act of aggression against an opponent. 2. a remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerable target.
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|Cheapstead ||n||A market place.
 
|Cheapstead ||n||A market place.
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|Cheek-tooth ||n.||A molar tooth or grinder.
 
|Cheek-tooth ||n.||A molar tooth or grinder.
 
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|Cheeky ||adj||Impertinent, impudent, impertinently bold, often endearing or amusing. 2. eaten or drunk as indulgence.
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|Cheese ||n.||The curd of milk separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass
 
|Cheese ||n.||The curd of milk separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass
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|Chested ||adj||Enclosed in a coffin or chest. 2. having a chest, chiefly in combination, as bare-chested, deep-chested.
 
|Chested ||adj||Enclosed in a coffin or chest. 2. having a chest, chiefly in combination, as bare-chested, deep-chested.
 
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|Chester ||n.||A latin word adopted by the Angles and Saxons for a walled town or city; orig. one that had been a Roman station in Britain.
 
|Chester ||n.||A latin word adopted by the Angles and Saxons for a walled town or city; orig. one that had been a Roman station in Britain.
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|Child-bed ||n||Confinement. 2. the bed in which a child is born. 3. the womb: the child's bed or bairn's bed.
 
|Child-bed ||n||Confinement. 2. the bed in which a child is born. 3. the womb: the child's bed or bairn's bed.
 
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|Childbirth ||n||The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as a culmination of pregnancy.
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|Childed ||adj||Provided with a child or children.
 
|Childed ||adj||Provided with a child or children.
 
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|Childerhood ||n||The state of being children of a certain parent; childhood. 2.
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|Childerhood ||n||The state of being children of a certain parent; childhood. 2.
 
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|Childerless ||adj||Childless; without children.
 
|Childerless ||adj||Childless; without children.
 
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|Childermas ||n||The festival of the (slaughter) of the Holy Innocents by Herod. 2. childer-tide.
 
|Childermas ||n||The festival of the (slaughter) of the Holy Innocents by Herod. 2. childer-tide.
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|Child-great ||adj||With child; pregnant.
 
|Child-great ||adj||With child; pregnant.
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|Childheady ||adj||Childish.
 
|Childheady ||adj||Childish.
 
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|Childhood ||n||The state of being a child. 2. time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty. 3. the early stages of development of something.
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|Childing ||adj.||Pregnant, bearing child, child-bearing, child-delivery, parturition. 2. that bears a child or children. 3. breeding, in-labour. 3. fertile(fig.); fruitful, applied to some plants which produce younger or similar florets around an older blossom.
 
|Childing ||adj.||Pregnant, bearing child, child-bearing, child-delivery, parturition. 2. that bears a child or children. 3. breeding, in-labour. 3. fertile(fig.); fruitful, applied to some plants which produce younger or similar florets around an older blossom.
 
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|Childish ||adj||Behaving immaturely.
 
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|Childmind ||vb||The look after children while their parents are absence. 2. to babysit.
 
|Childmind ||vb||The look after children while their parents are absence. 2. to babysit.
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|Childling ||n||A little child.
 
|Childling ||n||A little child.
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|Childly ||adj||Of, belonging to, or natural to a child, filial.
 
|Childly ||adj||Of, belonging to, or natural to a child, filial.
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|Child-minded ||adj||Being minded as a child.
 
|Child-minded ||adj||Being minded as a child.
 
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|Childship ||n||The relationship of a child to a parent, filiation, adoption.
 
|Childship ||n||The relationship of a child to a parent, filiation, adoption.
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|Childwife ||n||A woman in childbed, or who has lately given birth to a child. 2. a midwife. 3. a wife who is a child, or very young.
 
|Childwife ||n||A woman in childbed, or who has lately given birth to a child. 2. a midwife. 3. a wife who is a child, or very young.
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|Chill ||phr||"To Take the Chill Off" - to raise something to temperature heat.
 
|Chill ||phr||"To Take the Chill Off" - to raise something to temperature heat.
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|Chill ||phr||"To Throw a Chill Over" - to dampen the warmth or ardour of someone.
 
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|Chilliness ||n||A chilly state or condition.
 
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|Chilver ||n.||Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb.
 
|Chilver ||n.||Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb.
 
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|Chin ||n.||The part of the face below the upper lip formed by the prominent extremities of the lower jaw. 2. to press chin to chin. 3. to bring up to the chin. 4. to chat, chatter. 5. to talk to, address, esp. boldly or impudent.
 
|Chin ||n.||The part of the face below the upper lip formed by the prominent extremities of the lower jaw. 2. to press chin to chin. 3. to bring up to the chin. 4. to chat, chatter. 5. to talk to, address, esp. boldly or impudent.
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|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 ||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.

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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.
Chalk phr "To Chalk Up" - to attribute, credit, blame. 2. to achieve something.
Chalk phr "To Chalk Up To" - to attribute or account for something.
Chalkboard n A slate board to write on with chalk, and a predecessor of the whiteboard.
Chalk dust n A fine white powder remaining after chalk is erased from a chalk board.
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-like ad having the characteristics of chalk.
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-talk n An informal lecture on an academic subject. 2. a music hall act in which the performer makes chalk caricaturesvw whilst recites a monologue.
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 Full of grating, creakingm grating noise. 2, quarrelsome.
Charkless adj Without or lacking a creaky, grating noise. 2, without quarrel or compliant.
Charksome adj Creaky, grating, chirky. 2. querulous.
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 One who chews; a chewer. 2. one who ruminates or broods over something.
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.)
Cheap shot n A deliberate, unsportsmanlike act of aggression against an opponent. 2. a remark that unfairly disparages an obvious vulnerable target.
Cheapstead n A market place.
Cheapstow n A market-place.
Cheapth n Cheapness.
Cheek n. The jaw, jawbone, later called 'cheekbone'. 2. side of the face below the eye in man and beast. 3. the chops or fauces, the swallow. 4. the fleshy lateral wall of the mouth insolence in speaking to any one, cool confidence, effrontery, as in the phr. to give cheek. 5. closest intimacy, as in the phr. cheek by jowl. 6. side post of a door, gate, window. 7. the buttocks. 7. fig. of the sea; the heavens, night personified.
Cheek vb To cheek it out; to bold it out.
Cheek phr "To Be Cheek to Cheek" - applied to dancing, where the partner have or are cheek to cheek
Cheek phr "To Have Cheek" - to have audacity, boldness, effrontery.
Cheek phr "With One's Own Cheek" - to oneself, for one's own private use (vulgar)
Cheekbone n. The bone of the lower jaw.
Cheeked adj Having some specific type of cheek.
Cheekiness n Cheeky quality, cool, presumptiouness, effrontery, impudence.
Cheekish adj Cheeky, saucy, impudent, cool effrontery.
Cheek-tooth n. A molar tooth or grinder.
Cheeky adj Impertinent, impudent, impertinently bold, often endearing or amusing. 2. eaten or drunk as indulgence.
Cheese n. The curd of milk separated from the whey and pressed into a solid mass
Cheese phr "To Cheese Off" - to annoy, displease, be fed up.
Cheese cloth n A looseley woven cotton, originally used to wrap cheese, but used for various other purposes, such as culinary tasks and crop protection.
Cheese maker n A maker or producer of cheese.
Cheesemonger n. One who deals in cheese. 2. a monger of cheese.
Cheesemongering n The action of making, buying and selling cheese.
Cheeselip n. Common woodlouse
Cheesiness n The quality, condition, or state of being cheesy.
Cheesy adj Of or belonging to cheese. 2. consisting of cheese, or the nature of cheese, abounding in cheese. 3. resembling cheese in appearance or consistence. 4. (sl) - fine or showy. 5. second rate, cheap and nasty.
Chelle n OE. cylle, cyll, a leather bag, flagon, vessel.
Cheole, Chel n. Throat
Cherry n. A well known stone fruit; the pulpy drupe of certain species of prunus (NO. Rosacae)
Chesil n. OE. cisil, ceasel, cysel: a collective noun for small pebbles, such as those of the sea, beach. 2. gravel, shingle, silicecous stone or pebble. 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.
Chest n OE ceast, appears a later refashioning of the OE ceas by the addition of the ordinary 't' of nouns of action.: strife, contention, matter of dispute.
Chest vb To put in a coffin. 2. to enclose in a chest or box; to stow away. 3. of a horse: to come against or strike with a chest.
Chest phr "To Get It (something) Of One's Chest" -
Chest-deep adj So deep as to reach the chest.
Chested adj Enclosed in a coffin or chest. 2. having a chest, chiefly in combination, as bare-chested, deep-chested.
Chestedness n
Chester n. A latin word adopted by the Angles and Saxons for a walled town or city; orig. one that had been a Roman station in Britain.
Chesterwort n See 'Cesterwort.'
Chestful adj Q.uantity of articles that can fit in a box or chest
Chesting n In Scotland, the putting of a corpse into a coffin with entertainment given on this melancholy occasion.
Chestless adj Without a prominent chest, most of flat -chested women and girls.
Chestlike adj Resembling a trunk, suitcase, or chest-like, rectangular piece of luggage.
Chest wall n The outer surface of the thorax or chest.
Chesty adj Conceited and self-assertive. 2. having one's chest thrust outed as a sign of self-importance. 2. inclined to be weak or prone to chest complaints. 3. of a woman having prominent breasts.
Cheves-born adj Cebis, born of a concubine; a bastard.
Chevesse n A concubine, mistress, leman.
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
Chew phr "To Chew Off" - to reprimand, scold, rebuke.
Chew phr "To Chew On" - to consider, ponder, chew over.
Chew phr "To Chew Out" - to lecture, scold, reprimand, rebuke.
Chew phr "To Chew Over" - to think deeply about, ponder, mull over.
Chew phr "To Chew the Cud" - to think deeply, consider profoundly before answering. 2. to think deeply, ruminate.
Chew phr "To Chew the Fat" = to discuss a matter, esp. complainly; to reiterate an old grievance, to grumble, to argue, to talk or chat, to spin a yarn
Chewed adj Bruised and reduced between the teeth; masticated.
Chewer n One that chews, spec. one that chews tobacco.
Chewiness n The state of being chewy: having pliable or springy texture when chewed.
Chewing n Ruminating, masticating.
Chewish adj Somewhat chewy.
Chewth n The act of chewing.
Chewy adj Suitable for chewing (also transfig.)
Chibe n OE. cipe - an onion, shallot, scallion, chipe.
Chick n A chicken, esp. a young one; something the young of any bird. 2. applied to human off-spring esp. in alliteration with child, as 'neither chick or child.'
Chickdonm n The world or sphere of young women, 'chicks'.
Chicken n. The young of the domesticated fowl. 2. a child, one young or inexperienced.
Chicken phr "She No Longer a Chicken" - that is no longer young.
Chicken phr "To Chicken Out" - to fail to act when required to do so; to back down from motives of cowardice.
Chicken-brained adj Silly, stupid, stulty, empty-headed.
Chicken-feed n Food for poultry; also, fig. a thing of little importance.
Chicken-heart n One with a heart as faint as that of a chicken. 2. a cowardly person.
Chicken-hearted adj. Of a heart so timorous as a chicken; of a cowardly person. 2. being faint-hearted or weak when a show of strength and fortitude is called for.
Chickenhood n The state of being of a chicken.
Chicken house n Cage in which chickens are kept, a chicken coop.
Chicken-meat n Food (meat) for consumption by chicken and fowls. 2. meat made from chicken.
Chicken thief n A pilferer.
Chicken wort n Chicken weed, 'Stellaria media.'
Chidden adj Reproved, rebuked, scolded.
Chide n Chiding, quarrelling, wrangling. 2. angry rebuke, a reproof. 2. the chide of streams and the hum of bees.'
Chide vb. To contend with loud and angry altercation, wrangle, brawl. 2. scold, rebuke, find fault with. 3. drive, compel or repel by chiding, ' Thy Word bids Winds and Waves be still. And chides them into rest. 4. said of loud and vociferous hounds and brawling streams.
Chider n A quarrelsome person, a brawler, scolder. 2. one who scolds or rebukes with vehemence.
Chiding n The action of quarreling with angry words, contention, vehement expression of displeasure. 2. scolding, rebuking, reproof. 3. brawling or loud barking spec. of fox-hounds. 4. fig. & transfig. of noise of wind and water. 5. the chiding that gives loud and vehement utterance of displeasure.
Chidingly adv In a chiding manner.
Chidingness n The state or condition of 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.
Child n
Child vb To bear a child, to be delivered of, or to bring forth a child.
Child-bearing adj The bringing forth or bearing of a child, parturition, gestation.
Child-bed n Confinement. 2. the bed in which a child is born. 3. the womb: the child's bed or bairn's bed.
Childbirth n The fact or action of giving birth to a child, as a culmination of pregnancy.
Child bride n
Childcare n
Child carer n
Childcaring n
Childed adj Provided with a child or children.
Childerhood n The state of being children of a certain parent; childhood. 2.
Childerless adj Childless; without children.
Childermas n The festival of the (slaughter) of the Holy Innocents by Herod. 2. childer-tide.
Child free adj
Child-great adj With child; pregnant.
Childheady adj Childish.
Childhood n The state of being a child. 2. time during which one is a child, from between infancy and puberty. 3. the early stages of development of something.
Childing adj. Pregnant, bearing child, child-bearing, child-delivery, parturition. 2. that bears a child or children. 3. breeding, in-labour. 3. fertile(fig.); fruitful, applied to some plants which produce younger or similar florets around an older blossom.
Childish adj Behaving immaturely.
Childlessly adv
Childlessness n
Childmind vb The look after children while their parents are absence. 2. to babysit.
Childminder n One who looks after children while their parents are absence. 2. a babysitter.
Childmindishly adv
Childishness n Quality or conduct natural to a child. 2. quality or conduct not befitting mature age, puerility, silliness. 3. an act of childishness.
Childless adj Having no children, without off-spring.
Childlessness n Childless condition or quality.
Childlike adj filial, belonging to, or becoming a child. 2. like a child, childish.
Childlikeness n A childly nature
Childling n A little child.
Childlore n
Child love n
Child lover n
Childly adj Of, belonging to, or natural to a child, filial.
Child-minded adj Being minded as a child.
Childminding adj The action or occupation of looking after children while their parents are absence. 2. baby-sitting.
Children n
Children phr "Children Should Be Seen but Not Heard"
Childship n The relationship of a child to a parent, filiation, adoption.
Children's home n
Childwife n A woman in childbed, or who has lately given birth to a child. 2. a midwife. 3. a wife who is a child, or very young.
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.
Chill phr "To Chill One's Blood" - to terrify, cause dread and fear.
Chill phr "To Take the Chill Off" - to raise something to temperature heat.
Chill phr "To Chill Down" - to relax or take time out; to calm down; unwind. 2. to hang out spend time together; or with another person or group.
Chill phr "To Throw a Chill Over" - to dampen the warmth or ardour of someone.
Chill phr "To Chill Down" - wind down, unwind, let off some steam, chill out.
Chilled adj Cooled, almost frozen, very cool.
Chiller n Something that chills, esp. a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled food, etc. 2. a frightening, dramatic work, such as a book, or film.
Chilliness n A chilly state or condition.
Chilling n
Chilling adj Become cold; causing cold. 2. causing mild or moderate fear. 2. fig. very strong physical or psychological unpleasant effect.
Chillingly adv
Chillsome adj Somewhat chilly
Chilly adj Cold enough to cause shivering or sudenly feeling cold.
Chilver n. Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb.
Chime n An instrumental music producing a sound when struck, similar to a bell or actually a bell, a cymbal. 2. an individual ringing component of a set of bells or chimes. 3. a door bell or door-chime. 4. a small bell or ringing or tone-making device, as a component or other device, a set of chimes or bells. 5. a series of chiming sounds. 6. a small hammer or other device used to strike a bell or chime.
Chime n. The rim at the end of a cask formed by ends of the staves; a chimble. 2. the part of the waterway left the thickest and above the deck plank.
Chime vb To make a sound of a chime. 2. to cause to strike or sound in harmony, to play a tune, as upon chime. 3. to make a wide correspondence of sound; to jingle.
Chime vb To groove the ends of cask staves.
Chime phr "To Chime in With" - to talk, to join in conversation, or discussion.
Chimed adj Rung in harmonious succession, rimed.
Chiming n An instance of chiming; a sound that chimes.
Chiming adj A bell-like sound; a ringing tone.
Chin n. The part of the face below the upper lip formed by the prominent extremities of the lower jaw. 2. to press chin to chin. 3. to bring up to the chin. 4. to chat, chatter. 5. to talk to, address, esp. boldly or impudent.
Chincough n. Hooping-cough; from the stem (Saxon):kink- OT., kik, to chink, kink. gasp (by popular etymology connected with chin). 2. violent and covulsive coughing.
Chine n. A fissure, crack in the surface (of the earth), cleft, crack, chink, leak. 2. cut, incision. 3. deep hollow ravine cut in soft rock by water, and descending steeply to the sea, as Shanklin's Chine on the Isle of Wight. 4. crevice, chasm, gap.
Chine vb To burst asunder, split open, open in fissures, crack, chine. 2. to split off, split, burst, separate by fissure,
Chink vb. To gasp convulsively for breath in laughing and coughing. 2. to lose one's breath spasmodically in coughing and laughing. 3. to open in cracks and clefts.
Chinked adj Cracked, fissures, splitted.
Chinking n Splitting, fissuring, cracking, chining.
Chinless adj Without a chin.
Chinning n (sl)talk.
Chinny adj Talkative, having a conspicious chin.
Chinwag n An informal conversation, usually about everyday matters, chat, gossip.
Chinwag vb To chat informally, gossip.
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, grate, chirp, squeak, croak 2. to make a noise with the teeth.. 3. to creak as a door. 4. to chirp as a bird, squeak as a mouse. 5. to cheer or brighten up, to be in a lively spirit or be cheerful.
Chirk adj Lively, in good spirit, cheerful. 2. strident, grating, grinding.
Chirm n Noise, din, chirt, vociferation. 2. chatter, vocal noise (in later time, esp. of birds) 3. a mingled din of many, as chirping birds in flock, dinning school children in play.
Chirm vb. To vociferate, call-out, cry out, roar. 2. warble as a bird.
Chirming n The action or state of being noisy, vociferous, chirting, or dinning.
Chise adj. Fastidious, neat, tidy, dainty as to eating. 2. particularly nice and choosy,
Chithe n. Sprout, bud, tender blade or sprout of grass or any plant, tiny shoot, chive, glume, awn, a mote, chit.
Chiule n. An Old English or Norse warship
Choke vb
Choke-lewe n. Choking, suffocation, strangling; alternate 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, prattler, prater (birds of the crow family, esp. the jackdaw)
Chrism n A borrowing from latin, oil of the sacrements in Eastern and Western churches. See 'chrisom'
Christ n
Christ-child n
Christ dust n Flour
Christ's-hair n Scolopendrum vulgar
Christ's thorn n Name given to several thorny shrubs.
Christ's wort n A plant that flowers around Christmas time.
Christdom n Christendom; the rule of Christ.
Christen n Of persons: Christian; of things: Christian.
Christen vb To convert to or make Christian. 2. to baptise. 3. to give or bestow a personal name.
Christened adj Converted to Christianity; baptised.
Christenness n The state or condition of being a Christian.
Christening n Conversion to christianity. 2. becoming a christian.
Christenly adv In the Christian way or manner.
Christhood n The state or condition of being Christ, the messiah.
Christless adj Without Christ or his spirit.
Christ-like adj Like Christ
Christlikeness n Having a likeness to Christ
Christmas n
Christmas tide n
Church n
Church n
Church vb
Church-bell n
Church-book n One belonging to, or used in connexion with the church.
Churchdom n The existence or standing of the church. 2. ecclesiastical status. 3. the system and workings of the church.
Church-folk n Church-goers; members of the church.
Church-gang n Going to church; attendance at church. 2. churching of a woman after child birth.
Church-goer n One who regularly goes to church.
Church-going n The regularly going to church.
Churchwort n The penny royal
Church-grith n Church peace: abstention from violence within the precinct of a church; right of sanctuary.
Church-hallowing n Consecration of a church.
Church-hawe n A churchyard.
Church-hay n A churchyard.
Church-house n A manse or house attached to or near a church for the use of clergy.
Churchiness n Churchy qualities.
Churchish adj
Church-key n Keys to the Churchdoor; fig. alluding to "the power of the keys."
Churchless adj Without a church. 2. not attending or belonging to a church. 3. not sanctioned or blessed by the church, unhallowed, unholy.
Churchliness adj The quality of being churchly. 2. loyalty to the church.
Church-litten n A burying enclosure; a churchyard, cemetery.
Churchly adj Of, pertaining or befitting a church. 2. ecclesiastical.
Churchman n A clergyman
Church owl n The Barn owl.
Churchman-ship n Position, quality or action of a churchman.
Church-mouse n Someone as poor as a church mouse.
Church-quake n Convulsion or upheaval in the church.
Church-scot n Church tribute: in OE. times a custom of corn collected on St Martin's Day; extended to other contributions in kind and money made for the support of the clergy, or demanded as a n ecclesiastical due.
Churchship n The status of the church; the being of a church. 2. an ecclesiastical organization or body.
Church-soken n Territory of a church; inhabitants of a church district.
Church-tale n A periodic festive gathering held in connexion with a church.
Churchward adj The custodian of the church (building) 2. a man in orders who has charge of a church.
Churchwarden n One of the lay officers (usually two)
Churchway adv Manner or usage of a church.
Churchwork n Work for or on behalf of a church.
Churchy adj
Churchyard n The yard or enclosed piece of land on which the church stands, formerly used as a burial ground for the local parishioners. 2. a burial ground or cemetery. 3. the precincts of the church.
Churl n A male human being, a man; esp. 'man' as a correlative to wife, husband. 2. in OE times: a man simply in and out of work, a lowly freeman. 3. in more general application: a noble, gentleman, a tenant.. 4. a tenant in pure villeinage, serf, bondsman. 5. serf, bondsman, villein, the position to which the anglo-saxon churl were reduced after the Norman Conquest. 6. countryman, peasant, rustic, boor. 7. disparagely: a rude fellow, low-bred person. 8. one who is sordid, hard or stingy in money matters, a niggard, miser.
Churl vb To take a husband. 2. to play the churl or be niggard towards someone. 3. to begrudge, grumble like a churl.
Churldom n In various senses of the word: the state of being a churl or bondsman. 2. churlhood. 3. those intentionally boorish or rude in behaviour collectively, surly-hood, harshhood.
Churled adj Made a churl or churlish.
Churlhood n State or quality of a churl: rusticity, boorishness, rudeness, home simplicity. 2. estate or order of churls; churldom
Churlish adj Of, or relating to a churl. 2. pertaining to a churl. 3. of the rank or position of a churl(s). 2. intentionally boorish or rude in behaviour; harsh, brutal, surly, ungracious. 3. of beasts, natural forces etc. - vilent, rough. 4. sordid, niggardly, stingy, grudging. 5. of soil, unkindly stiff, hard or difficult to work. 6. of metal: difficult to work, intractable. 7. transfig. - of difficulty, obstacles: hard, problematic etc. 8. of voice: strident, harsh, coarse.
Churlishly adv In a churlish manner, rudely, coarsely, rough, with niggardness.
Churlishness n A churlish state or quality, rudeness, sulleness, harshness, niggardness.
Churly adj Churlish, rough, surly, rude, violent.
Churn n A butter making machine. 2. a vessel or machine for making butter, in which is shaken, beaten or broken, so as to separate the oily globules from the serous parts. 3. used also vessels or instrumets resembling a churn, as a pump, milk can.
Churn vb To produce a large quantity (of something) rapidly and easily. 2. antonym: unchurn. 2. to agitate cream or milk in a churn, so as to make butter, agitate, stir and intermix; to produce froth.
Churn phr "To Churn Out" - to produce mechanically, hurriedly, or routinely.
Churn phr "To Churn Up" -
Churned adj Produced in large quantity, rapidly and easily. 2.
Churner n A churn; a vessel in which cream is churned to make butter.
Churning n The act by which something is churned. 2. the quantity of butter produced at a churning.
Churning adj
Churningly adv In a churning manner.
Churnishly adv In a churnish manner.
Churn-milk n Buttermilk.
Churn-owl n The Nightjar.