List of Old English Words in the OED/CH

Old English	Rank	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. Cognates: Chaffer, Chafferer: trader, dealer. Chaffering: bargaining, haggling
Chaffer	vb.	To trade, deal in merchandise, buy and sell, to bargain, haggle about price or terms. 2. haggle or bandy over words.
Chalk	n.	An opaque soft white earthy limestone. 2. A chalk-like concretion used in the form of a crayons for drawing.
Chalky	adj.	Resembling chalk; fragility (esp. of bones)
Chapman	n.	Merchant,trader. Chap-woman: female trader; Chafferer, Chapmanship: performance of a chapman. Cognate: Cheap-fare: bargains
Chare	n.	Deed, work, business; domestic work, turning or moving back, return, retreat. After-chare: repentance. 2. The returning of a time. A turn ; to turn of work; housework, cleaning (of a house)
Chare	n.	Narrow lane or wynd; a turn-down.
Charity	n.	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, Chirk	vb.	Creak, grating, jar. 2 To be querulous. Cognate: charksome, charkful, charkless See Chirk.
Charles's Wain	n.	See Carles-wain.
Charlock	n.	Sinapsis arvensis or Field Mustard; also used for other field weeds.
Charr	vb.	Murmur, complain
Chary	adj.	Sorrowful. 2. dear, cherished. 3. careful, cautious, shy, frugal, sparing.
Chaw	vb.	To chew. 2. mumble 3. ruminate upon, brood over. Cognate: Chawer, Chaw-bacon: bumpkin
Chawn	n.	Gap, cleft, chink, rift, fissure, chine
Chawn	vb.	Gape open, cleave, asunder, chine
Cheap	n.	The sense "cattle" is found only in OE. 1. a bargain, bargaining. 2. a market, marketplace. (hence in place-names, as Cheapside etc.) 3. price 4. goods.
Cheap	vb.	Barter, bargain
Cheapgild	n.	A market-place, cheaping
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.
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.)