List of Old English Words in the OED/CL

Old English	sb	English
Clad	n
Clad	vb.	Cover with or as with clothing; array, bearing a cladding, arrayed, bedeck. 2. adorned or furnished with clad.
Clad	vb	To clothe, to dress, to cover as with cloth. 2. to apply a cladding to. 3. to cover with clad.
Cladded	adj
Cladding	n	Clothe, coating, covering, applied to the surface of
Clake	vb.	Hurt, injury, scathe
Clakeless	adj	Scatheless, unhur, unscathed,
Clam	n	Anything that holds tight, bond, chain. 2. in plural: bondage. 3. an instrument for clasping rigidly or holding fast, a clamp, vice, pair of pinchers, etc; also lining for the jaws of a vice. 3. clutches, jaws. 4. forceps used for bringing up specimens from the ocean bottom.
Clam	n	A name applied to various bivalve shell-forms.
Clam	n	The mouth (sl.) 2. mud (sl) - mud, sticky clay. 3. a soft mass. 4. a term of contempt: one who is 'as close as a clam'
Clam	vb	To smear, to spread unctous matter on; to daub with. 2. to bedaub (a thing) so that it sticks. 3. to clog or choke up. 4. to be moist and sticky, to stick, adhere.
Clam	phr	"To Clam Up" -
Clammer	n	Something that or someone who clams or causes cohesion.
Clammily	adv	In a clammy or clamming manner
Claminess	n	State or quality of being clammy.
Clammish	adj	Somewhat clammy.
Clammishness	n	The state or quality of being clammish
Clammy	adj	Soft, moist, viscous, adhesive. 2. sluggish,
Clap	n
Clap	vb
Clapper	n
Clappperclaw	n
Clary	n.	(In OE. slarie, slareye) Resolved by apothecaries into clear-eye) The plant Salvia sclarea, considered good for the eye.
Clatter	n.	A non-ringing noise made by the collision of; tattle, noisy talk, gossip.
Clatter	vb.	To utter in a chattering way, prattle , tattle,
Clauster	n.	Cloister, cell, monastery
Claut, Cleach, Cletch	vb.	grasping hard, clutch. 2. scratch, claw, rake, scrape out
Claver, Clifer	n.	Talon, claw
Claw	n.	Talon, c.f. crombe, Clee 2.
Claw	vb.	Scratch, tear with the claw, sieze, grip, grasp, clutch. 2. scratch gently to relieve itching, 3. flatter, cajole, fawn upon. Claw back: regain position by tenacity.
Claw	phr	"In One's Claw" - implying the motion of siezing; and/or having someone or something in one's power or under one's control.
Claw	phr	"To Claw Away"
Claw	phr	"To Claw Back" - to retrieve, get back, such as an allowance.
Claw	phr	"To Claw the Back of" - to stroke down, flatter, faun upon.
Claw	phr	"To Claw Off" - to get rid of an itch. 2. to be free. 3. to get rid of or dispose of
Claw-back	n	A sycophant, flatter,
Clawed	adj	Having or furnished with claws.
Clawer	n
Claw-footed	adj	Having clawed feet.
Clawless	adj	Without a claw(s)
Clawy	adj	Scratchy, scraping, flattery.
Clay	n
Clay	vb	To treat with clay, to cover, smear of plaster with clay. 2. to dress(sandy soil) with clay, mix with clay.
Clay	phr	"Feet of Clay" - a fundamental weakness in something, a supposition of great merit.
Claycold	adj.	Cold, extremely cold as of dead body.
Clayed	adj	Treated with clayed, spec. of land, dressed in clay.
Clayen	adj	Of clay as a material.
Clayey	adj	Characterized by the presence of clay. 2. full of abounding in clay. 3. composed of, or of the nature of clay; argilleous. 4. of mortal clay - applied to the body (usually as the habitation of the soul). 5. coated, clay, claylike.
Clayeyness	n	The nature or quality of being clayey.
Claying	n	The act of the verb: to treat with clay, to cover, smear of plaster with clay. 2. to dress (sandy soil) with clay, mix with clay.
Clayish	adj	More or less clayey.
Clayly	adj.	Earthly as opposed to spiritually
Claystone	n
Clead, Cleading	n.	Clothing, apparel, attire. 2. covering or casing.
Cleadful	adj	Handsomely attired.
Cleam, Cloam	vb.	To smear, rub or dedaub, plaster sticky matter to, adhere. 2. to agglutinate, cause to stick, to stick together. 3. clay with glutinous material.
Clean	vb
Clean	phr	"To Clean Out"
Clean	phr	"To Clean Up"
Cleaned	adj
Cleaner	n
Cleaning	n
Cleanliness	n
Cleanly	adj
Cleanse	vb
Cleansed	adj	Made clean; pumped out.
Cleanser	n
Cleanship	n	Chastity, cleanness.
Cleansing	n	That cleanses.
Cleat	n	Wedge
Cleat	vb	To fasten or furnish with cleat.
Cleave	n	Cleft.
Cleave	vb.	That which can be clefted, or divided; 2. easy to split, apt to split or asunder, fissible, divisible.
Cleave	vb	To stick, fast, adhere, cling. 2. to remain steadfast, standfast, abide, continue.
Cleave	phr	"To Cleave Down" - to cut down, piece, perforate.
Cleave	phr	"To Cleave In"
Cleave	phr	"To Cleave On"
Cleave	phr	"To Cleave One's Way Through" - to intersect, penetrate, fissure in position.
Cleave	phr	"To cleave Upon"
Cleaver	n	One who cleaves or splits. 2. instrument for cleaving; a butcher chopper for cutting carcases.
Cleavers	n	Galium aparine.
Cleavesome	adj	Fissile, inclination to split or cleave
Cleave-someness	n	Aptness to clef, fissility, divisibilty.
Cleaving	n	Splitting, fissiling or fissuring. 2. a cleft, fissure, parting of a limb. 3. something that splits.. 4.
Cleaving	n	The action of sticking or adhering (also fig.)
Cleaving	adj	Adhesive, clinging, clamming. 2. adhering, cleavy, clinging. 3. fig. abiding, lasting, sticking.
Cleavingly	adv	In a sticking, clinging, adhering way. 2. splittingly, fissurely, cleftly.
Clee, cloat	n.	Talon, claw; cf, crombe. 2. foot or limb armed with a claw. 3. one of the parts of a cloven hoof.
Cleft	n	Gen. a space made by cleaving. 2. cleaving, splitting or separation of parts, a split, fissure, crack or crevice. 3. a parting of the hair. 4. the parting of the thighs, cleaving or forking. 5. a slit, split to recieve a graft. 6. a crack of the skin, a chap. 7. the aperture in a cleft palate. 8. one of the pieces formed by cleaving, esp. split wood for fuel. 9. one of the division formed by cleaving of the foot of animals. 10. one of the division of an orange ; a pig.
Cleft	adj	Split asunder, in pieces. 2. bifurcated, divided, two-fold.
Cleft	vb	To divide, split, cleave.
Clefted	adj	Having clefts, division, splits, fissure, clefts.
Cleftly	adv	Having clefts, splits, crevices etc.
Clem	vb.	OE: beclemman. to pinch with hunger or fasting, waste with hunger, starve, pine of hunger, to suffer the pangs of hunger.
Clem, Clemmings	n.	Pangs of hunger.
Clemmed	adj
Clemming	n
Clench	n
Clench	vb
Clenched	adj
Clenching	n
Clepe	n	A call, cry, shout.
Clepe	vb	OE: clippan - to cry, call, call on, appeal to (a person) for or after a thing. 2. to proclaim. 3. to call a person, summon, to invoke, call to witness. 4. to call upon or to speak. 5. to call by name. 6. to mention by name, shout.
Cleper	n	One who calls, a caller.
Cleping	n	The action to call, cry out. 2. that what is called, have designed.
Cleve	n	Room, chamber, closet, sleeping place. 2. a cliff, coast or shore of the sea. 3. a steep, sloping ground. 4. the steep side of the hill.
Clew	n
Clew	vb	To coil up in a ball. 2. to put out as by clew or clue.
Clib	adj.	Eager, sharp, keen.
Clibby	adj	Sticky.
Cliff	n
Cliff-climber	n
Cliff-climbing	n
Cliff dweller	n	One who lives on or in a cliff. 2. trogledyte
Cliffed	adj	Having cliffs.
Cliff edge	n
Cliffing	n
Cliffless	adj	Without cliffs
Cliff-like	adj
Cliffsman	n	One skilled in cliff climbing.
Cliff wall	n
Cliffy	adj	Having cliffs, preciptuous, craggy.
Clinch	n
Clinch	vb
Clincher	n	A nail used for clinching. 2. tool used for clinching. 3.
Clinching	n	A riveting together. 2. the clinching of an arguement, opinion. 2. a sharp repartee that twists or turns about the meaning of the word.
Clinching	adj
Cling	n
Cling	vb
Clinginess	n	The quality of being clingy or adhesive.
Clinging	n
Clingingly	adv
Clingingness	n
Clingstone	n	A peach variety.
Clingy	adj	Clinging, sticky, adhering, teanacious.
Clip	n	An extract from a motion picture. 2. the act of clipping and shearing. 3. a small blow. 4. a rapid pace of motion or speed. ?????
Clip	n	An embrace. 2. clip or clasp instrument that does so. 3. a piece of jewelry fastened by a clip.
Clip	vb	To clasp. 2. to surround closely, encircle, encompass, hug. 3. to grip tightly, clutch, hold in a tight grasp. 4. to fasten with clips.
Clip	vb	To cut with scissors or shears. 2. to cut out a passage from a newspaper. 3. to cut or snip away. 4. to cut the hair, to poll. 5. to shear a sheep or similar animal; fleece. 6. to yield or be clipped. 7. to mutilate or change the value of a coin by removing its edges. 8. to cut, shut, curtail, diminish. 9. to cut short, by indistinct or hurried utterance, syllables and parts of a word. 10. to pronounce imperfectly. 11. to reduce, cut down. 12. to make the wings rapidly fly. 13. to move or run quickly. 14. to hit smoothly. 15. to swindle, scam, rob, steal. 16. to embrace.
Clip	vb	OE: cleppen - to ring a bell
Clip	phr	To Clip the Wings" -
Clipboard	n
Clip-on	n	That or something which is fastened on.
Clipper	n	One who clips, as a tram or train. 2. a shearer; a barber, hairdresser. 3. one who clips coins. 4. an instrument that clips, pruning hook, scissor, shears. 5. one who moves fast or rapidly; a swift horse. 6. a fast sailing vehicle: a clipper. 7. a piece of something that is excellent or first-rate. 8. an aerial vessel; a flying-boat used in trans-oceanic flights.
Clipper	vb	To send by clipper ship or other vehicles.
Clipping-house	n	A barber or hairdresser's shop.
Clipping	n	Embracing, clasping. 2. the action of ctting by clippers, shears, scissors. 3. a small piece clipped off. 4. a cutting, paring, shaving, shred, portion clipped from a coin. 5. the shortening of a word, as 'phone' for telephone.
Clipping	adj	That clips or cuts with shears, scissor, etc. 2. that flies or moves fast. 3. of pace: fast, rattling. 4. (sl) excellent.
Clippingly	adv	In a clipping manner, excellent.
Clipsome	adj	Fit to be clasped or embraced.
Clipping-time	n	The nick of time.
Clipshears	n	An earwig.
Clitch	vb	OE: clyccan: to crook or bend. 2. to incurve the finger; close the hand, clench the fist. 2. to crook, bend a joint, crouch. 3. to sieze and pull in as with a claw. 4. to take up water with a shallow vessel. 5. to hold tightly in a clutch or grasp. 6. to make fast, faster, click things together. 7. to stick or adhere to. 8. to be glutinous or thick.
Clitching	n	Crooking, bending (of a joint)
Clithers	n	OE: Clithan; clithwyrt; Rubea Minor, clivers, clevers
Clithwort	n	Clithwyrt or Rubea minor.
Clive	vb	OE: clifan, to stick, cling, cleave. 2. to climb.
Clivy	adj	Cliffy.
Cloam	n.	OE: clam: mud. earthenware, pottery, clay.
Cloam	vb	To daub or smear with clay.
Cloamen	adj	Earthen, made of earthenware.
Cloamer	n	Potter, maker of earthenware
Clod	n.	Mass of rock or earth, a hill; consolidated mass of earth & sky; a cloud. 2. a clot of blood. 3. a mass formed by the coagulation of a liquid, blood, etc. 4. a coherent mass or lump of any solid matter; eg. clod of earth, lump of clay, clay adhering together, loam. 5. as a substance, the soil or dust of the ground in its lumpy character (often depreciatory) 6. a ball of earth that adheres about the root of a tree or plant. 7. a sod, peat, a bit of turf, spot of ground. 8. fig. of the human body - mass of clay - also to a huamn being - child of clay. 9. earth, of the earth. 10. a blockhead, dolt, stult, clod skull. 11. a small loaf of unleavened bread. 12. the curved part of the back of an ox, nearest to the shoulder.
Clod	vb	To free land from clods by harrowing, rolling etc. 2. to cover with clods. 3. to form or turn into clds. 4. to pelt with clods.
Clodded	adj	Coagulated, stuck together in clods or clotted lumps.
Clodder	n	A dlodded or curdled mass; a clot.
Clodder	vb	To run together in to clods, clots or clouds. 2. to coagulate, become clotty or lumps.
Cloddered	adj
Cloddiness	n	A cloddy quality or condition.
Cloddishness	n
Clod-hopper	n	A ploughman or agricultural labourer. 2. a country lout, a clumsy akward boor, a clown. 2. a ploughman's heavy shoes. 3. the wheaten or clotbird.
Clod-hopping	adj	Literally following the plough. 2. boorish, awkward, clumsy (sl) dancing, esp. poorly.
Clodhoppish	adj	Awkward, boorish, clumsy.
Cloddy	adj	Characterized by the presence of clots, clotted, coagulated, lumpy. 2. abounding in clods. 3. of the nature of a clod, clod-like, earthy 9in a depreciative sense.)
Clodlike	adj	Thick, lumpy, short.
Clodly	adv	In a cloddish or clod-like manner, dully, heavily.
Clod-tongued	adj	Unimpassioned and dull. 2. stolid and solid in character and speech.
Clodwards	adj	Towards the clods, earthy.
Cloffing	adv	OE: clufu, clove. 2. ranunculus sceleratus: clofwyrt, hellebore.
Cloom	n	Dialect for 'cloam' - adhesive mud or clay.
Closewort	n	Hyoscyamus.
Close	vb	OE: beclysan partly OE ??
Clot	n	A hill or a mound.?????
Clot	vb
Clot-bird	n	Species of bird frequently fallow land. 2. the wheatear, clodhopper or fallow-smiter (saxicola oenanthe)
Clot-cold	adj	Dead, a dead person is said to be clot-cold.
Clote	n	Cloteweed, the burdock (articum lappa)
Cloth	n	????? a canvas, a sail.
Cloth	vb
Cloth	phr	"Cloth of Another Hue" - the case is totally different.
Cloth	phr	"to Bring to Cloth" - accompished, finalized, finished.
Cloth	phr	"To Shake the Cloth in the Wind" - to be intoxicated.
Clothe	n
Clothe	vb
Clothed	adj
Clotheless	adj	Without clothe, destitute of clothing.
Clothen	vb	Made of cloth.
Clothes	n
Clothe- sack	n	A bag for clothes; a portmanteau.
Clothes-monger	n
Clothesless	adj
Clothing	n
Clothing-maker	n
Clothing-maker	n
Cloth-stone	n	Thrumstone, threadstone, devil dust.
Cloth-work	n	Work done in cloth. 2. a maker or manufacturer of woolen-cloth.
Clothy	adj
Clotted	adj	Gathered in clods or clumps. 2. coagulated. thickened. 3. dense, accumulated.
Cloud	n
Cloud	n	An innumerable body of insects, birds, etc. flying together; hence fig. and transfig. a multitude 9of persons or things), a crowd, esp. as a 'cloud of witnesses.
Cloudberry	n	Rubus chaemorus.
Cloud-burst	n	A sudden burst of rain.
Clouden	adj	of cloud.
Cloud-field	n	An expanse of cloud.
Cloudful	adj	Full of clouds, cloudy, clouded.
Cloud-headed	adj	Having clouded or confused ideas.
Cloudily	adv	Ina cloudy manner, dimly, obscurely with darkened prospects. 2. in a cloud or swarm.
Cloudiness	n	State or quality of being cloudly (in various senses.)
Clouding	n	A cloudy marking; a cloudy streak or part in a clear substance.
Clouding	adj	That clouds, that is becoming clouding or dim.
Cloud-kissing	adj	So high as to reach the clouds; skyscraping.
Cloudland	n	The region of clouds; landscape of clouds. 2. a region of fancy myth or unreality.
Cloudless	adj	Without a cloud, unclouded, clear.
Cloudlessly	adv	In a cloudless state or appearance.
Cloud-lessness	n	State of being cloudless.
Cloud-lighting	n	Clouded light, dim light (also fig.)
Cloudly	adj	Cloud-like, nature of clouds.
Cloud-monger	n	A diviner by looking up to the clouds.
Cloud-street	n	The most prominent clouds are thousands of bright cumuli arrayed in roughly parallel bands called 'cloud streets' which usually indicate direction of the wind.
Cloud-seeding	n
Cloudwards	adv	Towards the clouds.
Cloud--world	n	A world of fancy and mystical speculation. 2. the cloud-world of the transcendental.
Cloudy	adj	Rocky, hilly. 2. of cloud, of the nature of clouds; of or pertaining to clouds. 3. characterized by the prescence of clouds; abounding in or full of clouds. 4. not transparent or clear. 5. having cloud-like markings. 6. clouded, dim, obscure, faint. 7. clouded by ignorance, etc. of ideas, perceptions: dim, obscure, indistinct, not clear. 8. darkened by misfortune, grief, anger, foreboding, etc., full of gloom, sullen, frowning. 9. under a cloud,of disgrace or disrepute, shady (coll.)
Cloudy-eyed	adj
Cloudy-headed	adj
Cloudy-topped	adj	Covered or hidden by clouds at the top or summit.
Clough,	n.	Ravine or valley with steep sides, a cleugh
Clum	vb.	Mutter, murmur
Clumper	n.	Mass, lump
Clumse	vb.	Become stiff, numb with cold, stupefy, amaze, daze