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	'Can't Tell Chalk from Cheese" - be incapable of distinguishing
Chalk	phr	"Chalk and Talk" - teaching; teaching profession.
Chalk	phr	"Chalk It Up" - the success was unexpected.
Chalk	phr	"Chalk Out" -to plan, draw or mark out with chalk.
Chalk	phr	"Chalk Up" - to raise the price of. 2. to attribute, credit, blame. 3. to achieve something.
Chalk	phr	"Chalk Up To" - to attribute or account for something.
Chalk	phr	"I Beat Him to the Chalk" - thoroughly.
Chalk	phr	"I Can walk the Chalk as Well as You" - I am no more drunk than you.
Chalk	phr	"I'll Chalk Your Path for You" - lay it down or plan it, as a carpenter or shipwright plans out his work with a piece of chalk.
Chalk	phr	"Like Chalk and Cheese" - completely different.
Chalk	phr	"Walk Your Chalk" - lodgings once wanted for the royal retinue were once taken arbitrary by chalking or marking the house. 2. landlords once gave tenants notice to quit by chalking the door.
Chalk	phr	"Win By a Long Chalk" - by a wide margin.
Chalkboard	n	A slate board (blackboard) 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	"Walk a Chalk-line" - to behave with propriety; to keep from deviating from a course of action. 2. a test to prove one is sober.
Chalk-pit	n	A quarry in which chalk is dug.
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 caricatures 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	Cheap fare: a good bargain.
Chapman	n.	Merchant,trader.
Chapmanship	n	The performance of a chapman.
Chap-woman	n	Female trader.
Chare	n.	Char, 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	n	Appears to be shortening of 'charcoal' - wood charred, coal, coke.
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 complain constantly; be querulous.
Charkful	adj	Full of grating, creaking grating noise. 2. prone to quarrel.
Charkless	adj	Without or lacking a creaky, grating noise, smooth. 2, without quarrel, or complaint.
Charksome	adj	Somewhat creaky, grating, chirky. 2. rather 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, bargain. 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.
Cheap	phr	"Cheap as Dirt" - very cheap, surprising cheap; very vulgar; dirt-cheap.
Cheap	phr	"Dear cheap' - a dear market, high prices; dearth, scarcity.
Cheap	phr	"Feel cheap" - feel ashamed or contemptible.
Cheap	phr	"Good cheap' - something good in the market for the producer.
Cheap	phr	"On the Cheap" - cheaply; at minimum price.
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 phrase '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	phr	"Be Cheek to Cheek" - applied to dancing, where the partner have or are cheek to cheek
Cheek	vb	"Cheek It Out" - to bold it out.
Cheek	phr	"Give Cheek to" - be saucy, insolent. 2. show lack of respect to somebody senior, superior.
Cheek	phr	"Have the Cheek" - to have audacity, boldness, effrontery.
Cheek	phr	"Have the Cheek of the Devil" - insolent, audacity.
Cheek	phr	"Having Tongue in Cheek" - insincerely, not necessary serious. 2. full of irony.
Cheek	phr	"Turn the Other Cheek" - accept attack meekly.
Cheek	phr	"With One's Own Cheek" - to oneself, for one's own private use (vulgar)
Cheekbone	n.	The bone below the eye (of the lower jaw).
Cheeked	adj	Having some specific type of cheek.
Cheekiness	n	Cheeky quality, cool, presumptiousness, effrontery, impudence.
Cheekish	adj	Cheeky, saucy, impudent, cool effrontery.
Cheek kiss	n	A ritual or social kissing gesture to indicate friendship, family relationship, perform a greeting, to confer congratulations, to comfort someone, to show respect, or in a context where those are not the goal to indicate sexual or romantic interest.
Cheek-tooth	n.	A molar tooth or grinder.
Cheeky	adj	Impertinent, impudent, impertinently bold, brazen; but 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	"Believe Me the Moon is Made of Green Cheese" - the most absurd thing imaginable.
Cheese	phr	"Bread and Cheese" - food generally, but of a frugal nature.
Cheese	phr	"Cheese It" - stop it, leave off.
Cheese	phr	"Cheese Off" - to annoy, displease, be fed up. 2. make one heartily tired of something. 2. make despondent, brown off, fed up.
Cheese	phr	"Hard Cheese" - bad luck; usually meant in sympathy.
Cheese	phr	"It Is an Old Rat Who Won't Eat Cheese" - it must be a very old man that is inaccessible to flattery or who can abandon his favorite indulgence. 2. only a very cunning rat knows that cheese is a mere bait.
Cheese	phr	"Stiff Cheese" - circumstances which may be unwelcome but which will not altered and in respect of which there is no great sympathy felt.
Cheese	phr	"The Cheese" - the right thing.
Cheese board	n	A board from which cheese is served. 2. a selection of cheeses.
Cheese cloth	n	A loosely woven cotton, originally used to wrap cheese, but used for various other purposes, such as culinary tasks and crop protection.
Cheese eater	n	An informer; rat. a person who betrays, denies, or abandons his or her associates, social group, beliefs, etc.
Cheese house	n	A room or building in which cheese is made, dried, or stored.
Cheeseless	adj	Not containing cheese. 2. without cheese. 3. characterised by the absence of cheese.
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
Cheese-mite	n	A mite feeding on cheeses.
Cheese-wood	n	A tree growing in Australia having hard yellowish wood.
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, a small stone or pebble. Now dialect or found in place names.
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	"Chest of Drawers" - a piece of furniture fitted with drawers.
Chest	phr	"Get It (Something) Of One's Chest" - to relieve oneself of anxiety, hurt or disappointment etc. by talking to someone.
Chest	phr	"Lock Something Up in an Old Oak Chest" - put something in a secure place and out of mind.
Chest	phr	"Put Hairs on One's Chest" - make manly, virile.
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	The state or quality of having a particular type of chest, such as flat-chested, narrow-chested.
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	Quantity 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. to examine or plan deliberately; meditate or ruminate upon
Chew	phr	"Bite Off More than One Can Chew" - be overly ambitious and thus unrealistic as to one's capabilities.
Chew	phr	"Chew Off" - to reprimand, scold, rebuke.
Chew	phr	"Chew On" - to consider, ponder, chew over. 2. consider slowly and carefully.
Chew	phr	"Chew Out" - to lecture, scold, reprimand, rebuke.
Chew	phr	"Chew Over" - to think long, deeply about, ponder, mull over. 2. consider slowly and carefully.
Chew	phr	"Chew Somebody Ear" - to force one conversation on an unwilling listener.
Chew	phr	"Chew the Cud" - to think deeply, consider profoundly before answering. 2. to think deeply, ponder, ruminate.
Chew	phr	"Chew the Fat" - to discuss a matter, esp. complaint; to reiterate an old grievance, to grumble, to argue, to talk or chat, to spin a yarn. 2. talk long about, often but not necessary in a grumbling manner.
Chew	phr	"Have Something to Chew On" - to have firm facts on which to base a decision.
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	n	Chewing gum; a piece of chewing gum.
Chewy	adj	Suitable for chewing (also transfiguratively.)
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.'
Chickdom	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	"Chicken Out" - to fail to act when required to do so; to back down from motives of cowardice. 2. lose one's courage in the face of an enemy, or in a dangerous situation.
Chicken	phr	"One's Chickens Have Come Home to Roost" - his sins. misdeeds have caught him out. 2. he got what he called for.
Chicken	phr	"She's No Spring Chicken" - she's not young.
Chicken	phr	"Where the Chicken Got It" - be severely castigated; be thoroughly castigated.
Chicken	phr	"Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg" - a suitable reply to an unanswerable question.
Chicken-and-egg	adj	Designating an unresolved question as to which of two things caused the other (a chicken-and-egg answer).
Chicken-brained	adj	Silly, stupid, stultish, 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; be chicken-livered. 2. a cowardly person.
Chicken-hearted	adj.	Of a heart so timorous as a chicken; of a cowardly person. 2. being timid, faint-hearted, cringing 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 pox	n	An infectious disease, esp. of children with a rash of small blisters.
Chicken thief	n	A pilferer.
Chicken-weed	n	Any of numerous small plants of the pink family, especially Stellaria media. 2. a garden weed with a with slender stems and tiny white flowers.
Chicken-wire	n	A light wire netting with a hexagonal mesh.
Chickenwort	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, one who scolds. 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. & transfiguratively. 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	A daughter or son; an offspring. 2. fig. an offspring; one born in, or considered a product of the culture of, a place. 3. fig. a member of a tribe, a people or a race of beings; one born into or considered a product of a people. 3. fig. a thing or abstraction derived from or caused by something. 4. a person who is below the age of adult hood; a minor, a person who is below the legal age of responsibility or accountability. 5. computing. data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object. 6. a female infant; a girl.
Child	vb	To bear a child, to be delivered of, or to bring forth a child.
Child	phr	"Child of God" - one who has been baptized.
Child	phr	"Child's Play" - something that is quite easy to do. 2.
Child	phr	"Latch-key child" - a young school age child who has a key to the family home, to enable him to let himself in when he returns home to an empty house after school .
Child	phr	'That's Child's Play" - said of something that is very easy to do.
Child	phr	"The Child is the Father of the Man" - the influences and experiences of childhood determines one's character as an adult.
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	In some cultures, a very young bride, pressured into marriage with a much older man.
Childcare	n	Act, practice or occupation of supervising and taking care of young children.
Child carer	n	One who works in childcare.
Childcaring	n	The act of caring for a child or children, esp. one's own.
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 or time.
Child free	adj	Of a person or couple: having no children, esp. as a matter of choce.
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.
Childishly	adv	In a childish or peurile manner.
Childishness	n	Quality or conduct natural to a child. 2. quality or conduct not befitting mature age, puerility, silliness. 3. an act of childishness
Childlessly	adv	In a childless way; without children.
Childlessness	n	The state or quality of being childless.
Childlike	adj	Having the good quality of a child sucha s innocents, frankness etc.
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	The folklore or folk culture of children and young people.
Child love	n	Euphemistic: pedophilia, lover of children.
Child lover	n	Euphemistic: a pedophile.
Childly	adj	Of, belonging to, or natural to a child, filial.
Child-minded	adj	Being minded as a child.
Childminder	n	One who looks after children while their parents are absence. 2. a babysitter.
Childmindishly	adv	In a child-mindish manner or way.
Childminding	adj	The action or occupation of looking after children while their parents are absence. 2. baby-sitting.
Childmindishly	adv	In a child-mindish manner or way.
Child-rearer	n	One who rears, nurtures children or animals.
Child-rearing	n	The act of rearing, nurturing children or animals.
Children	n	The plural form of 'child'.
Children	phr	"Children in the Wood" - "Babes in the Wood" is a traditional children's tale, as well as a popular pantomime subject. It has also been the name of some other unrelated works. The expression has passed into common language, referring to inexperienced innocents entering unawares into any potentially dangerous or hostile situation. A number of child murder cases have been referred to in the media as the Babes in the Wood murders.
Children	phr	"Children Should Be Seen but Not Heard" - children should behave well and be quiet, esp. in the presence of adults.
Children	ph	"Take Food Out Of the Mouth Of Children" - cruelly to deprive the needy.
Childship	n	The relationship of a child to a parent, filiation, adoption.
Children's home	n	A public institution for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer look after them. 2. an orphanage.
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 bonds woman with child.
Chill	n.	Cold, a feeling of coldness, attended with shivering, illness caused by cold.
Chill	vb.	To make cold; to affect with harm or injury with cold. 2. to cause to shiver. 3. fig what tends to repress warmth of feeling; repress deaden in feeling; dampen or dispirit.
Chill	adj	Cold, creating depressing, ungenial.
Chill	phr	"Cast a Chill Over" -
Chill	phr	"Chill One's Blood" - to terrify, cause dread and fear.
Chill	phr	"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. 2. wind down, unwind, let off some steam, chill out.
Chill	phr	"Chill to the Bone" - very cold.
Chill	phr	"Send a Chill Up Someone Neck/Spine" - strike deep feelings fear and horror into someone.
Chill	phr	"Take the Chill Off" - to raise something to temperature heat.
Chill	phr	"Throw a Chill Over" - to dampen the warmth or ardor of someone.
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	The state or condition of being or becoming cold. 2. a state of mild fear.
Chilling	adj	Becoming cold, causing cold. 2. causing mild fear.
Chilling	adj	Become cold; causing cold. 2. causing mild or moderate fear. 2. fig. very strong physical or psychological unpleasant effect.
Chillingly	adv	In a chilling manner.
Chillsome	adj	Somewhat chilly
Chilly	adj	Cold enough to cause shivering or suddenly feeling cold.
Chillybin	n	(Insulated cooler): a car fridge, an esky (Australia), cool box, cooler (US), icebox, chilly-bin.
Chilver	n.	Ewe lamb, young wether, chilver lamb.
Chime	n	A borrowing from Latin during Old English period. 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	"Chime in" - interrupt a conversation; contribute to a conversation.
Chime	phr	"Chime in With" - fit, suit a mood, feeling. 2. contribute with an offer of money.
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.
Chin	phr	"Keep One's Chin Up" - be brave in adversity. 2. to refuse to be downcast.
Chin	phr	"Lead With the Chin" - make an attack without defending oneself.
Chin	phr	"Take It On the Chin" - courageously accept adversity or punishment.
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; to fissure.
Chink	phr	"Chink of Light" - a small hope of a solution or breakthrough.
Chinked	adj	Cracked, fissures, splitted.
Chinking	n	Splitting, fissuring, cracking, chining.
Chinless	adj	Without a chin.
Chinless wonder	n	An ineffectual esp. upper-class person.
Chinning	n	(slang)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.	Perhaps? from O.E. cippian: to cut. 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, without nutritional value 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
Chip	phr	"Have a Chip? on his Shoulder" - be quarrelsome: (origin: possibly as a man might carry a chip on his shoulder and challenge others to dislodge it.
Chip	phr	"The Chips are Down" - the situations is grim or desperate.
Chipboard	n	A rigid sheet or panel made from compressed wood chip.
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.	A chit, a shoot, 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	n	A coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current, choke, choke coil, choking coil. 2. a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine
Choke	vb	To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stiffle, suffocate, strangle,  block  (someone's ) throat and keep them from breathing by constricting (someone's)  airwaves and keep  them from breathing; to struggle for breath, have a lack of oxygen .2. to obstruct by filling up, congesting or clogging of any passage; to block up; to breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion;. 3. to impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of; suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate, choke, 4. to hinder or check, as growth, expansion, progress, etc.; to stifle. 5. to affect with a sense of strangulation by passion or strong feeling. 6. fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation. 7. check or slow down the action or effect of. 8. become stultified, suppressed, or stifled. 9. suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of. 10. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; , pass away, expire, give-up the ghost, drop dead, croak. 11. "choke a carburetor"; throttle. 12. cause to retch or choke, gag. to be too tight; rub or press; choke, gag. 13. to make a choke, as in a cartridge, or in the bore of the barrel of a shotgun.
Choke	phr	"Choke Back" - supress, restraint tears, sobs, anger, fury.
Choke	phr	"Choke Down" - swallow with difficulty.
Choke	phr	"Choke Off" - to stop a person in the execution of a purpose; as, to choke off a speaker by uproar.
Choke	phr	"Choke the Life out of" - kill by strangling. 2. fig. force to stop a business trading or operating.
Choke	phr	"Choke Up" - block a drain, grid, pipe with mud, leaves etc. 2. hold back tears with great diificulty.
Chokeberry	n	The name comes from the astringency of the fruits,(genus Aronia) which create a sensation making one's mouth pucker:(especially with reference to a person's face) tightly gather or contract into wrinkles or small folds.
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.
Choose	phr	"Cannot Choose But" - has no alternative choice.
Choose	phr	"God's Chosen Ones" - according to the Old Testament text the Jewish people.
Choose	phr	"Nothing to Choose Between Them" -
Choose	phr	"The Chosen Few" - a relatively small number of persons selected for, or finding themselves in, a position of favor or privilege.
Choosey	adj	Fastidious, hard to please.
Chough	n.	???Chatter, prattler, prater (birds of the crow family, esp. the jackdaw)
Chrism	n	A borrowing from latin, oil of the sacraments in Eastern and Western churches. See 'chrisom'
Christ	n	The anointed one or messiah predicted in the Hebrew Bible. 2. Jesus of Nazareth; in O.E. known as Healand: 'The Healer'.
Christ-child	n	The baby Jesus; Jesus as a baby.
Christ dust	n	Flour
Christen	vb	Give a Christian name to at baptism as a sign of admission to a Christian Church. 2. give a name to(a thing) esp. formally or with a ceremony. 3. use for the first time.
Christendom	n	Christians worldwide regarded as a collective body.
Christhood	n	The condition of being Christ.
Christlike	adj	Resembling Christ.
Christmas	n	The annual festival of the celebration of the birth of Christ, observed on the 25th December.
Christmas	phr	"All His Christmas Came at Once" - he was overjoyed.
Christmas day	n	The day of the celebration of the birth of Christ, observed on the 25th December.
Christmas rose	n
Christmas tree	n
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	An annual church festival kept on December 25 or by some Eastern churches on January 7 in memory of the birth of Christ, celebrated generally by a particular church service, special gifts, and greetings, and observed in most Christian communities as a legal holiday. 2. a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, incorporating various Christian, pre-Christian and secular customs. 3. Christmas Day, the day it is celebrated, 25 December, an English quarter day. 4. Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the season (traditionally from the 24th of December to the 6th of January) around the holiday. 5. In US retailing period from the Friday following Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas. 6. in marketing, retailing - Christmas season, the end of the year period, busy with shopping and preparations for Christmas. 7. Yule; Noel.
Christmas eve	n	The day or evening before Christmas day.
Christmassy	adj	Pertaining to Christmas.
Christmastide	n	The Christmas season; Christmas time. 2. Christmastide, the Twelve Days of Christmas, the season (traditionally from the 24th of December to the 6th of January) around the holiday.
Christmas tree	n	An evergreen (usually spruce) or artificial tree set up with decorations at christmas.
Church	n	One of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship. 2. a place for public (especially Christian) worship; church. 3. a service conducted in a house of worship. 4. the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church. 5. Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place (from 9th c.). 6. Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity. 7. a local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general. [from 9th c.]  8. a particular denomination of Christianity. 9. Christian worship held at a church; service.  10. a (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.
Church	vb	To conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth. 2. to educate someone religiously in the ways of the church.
Church	phr	"Church a Woman" - to read the appointed service when a woman comes to to give thanks after childbirth.
Church	phr	"Go Into the Church" - to take holy orders; go into the ministry.
Church	phr	"Needy as a Church Mouse" - very poor.
Church-ale	n	Also called Easter-ale, and Whitsun-ale from sometimes from sometimes being held at Easter or whitsuntide:: a church festivity akin to the Wakes, when specially brewed ale was sold to the populace and money was collected in addition.
Church-bell	n	The bell (often more than one) belonging to a church, usually housed in the steeple or tower of the church and by custom rung before church services or on other occasions such as funerals and weddings.
Church-book	n	One belonging to, or used in connection 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.
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	Churchlike qualities.
Churchish	adj	Somewhat inclined to attend church regularly, but not over-religious.
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 relating to a church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical. 2. devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church. 3. in accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies, appropriate or befitting a church. 4. characteristic of a church, church-like.
Churchman	n	A clergyman; ecclesiastic. 2. a devoted supporter or member, especially of an established church.
Churchmanly	adv	In the manner or fashion of a churchman.
Church owl	n	The Barn owl.
Churchmanship	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 connection 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.
Churchwort	n	The pennyroyal.
Churchy	adj	Church-going, churchly; somewhat religious inclined.
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 instruments 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	"Churn Out" - to produce mechanically, hurriedly, or routinely.
Churn	phr	"Churn Up" - to turn over the ground, plough up. 2. fig. cause one to be anxious, upset; disturb or move violently. 3. to become or cause someone to be anxious.
Churned	adj	Produced in large quantity, regularly, 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	The act by which something is churned or agitated rapidly. 2. fig. the act of producing excessive and sometimes undesirable or unpredictable activity or motion.
Churningly	adv	In a churning manner.
Churnishly	adv	In a churnish manner.
Churn-milk	n	Buttermilk.
Churn-owl	n	The Nightjar.
Churn-staff	n	A rod with a perforated disk at one's end, used in hand-churning.