List of Old English Words in the OED/CO

Old English	sb	English
Coal	n	The glowing portion of a match. 2. hot, live, quick coal(s). 3. piece of burnt wood, capable of re-igniting.
Coal	phr	"To Blow Hot Coals" - to rage fiercely, stir up trouble, ill-feeling or strife.
Coal	phr	"To Heap Coals of Fire on the Head" - to produce remorse by requiting evil with good.
Coal-bearing	adj	Producing or abounding in coal.
Coal bed	n	A coal seam.
Coal black	adj	Of a black colour, like that of coal.
Coaler	n	A ehicle used for the carrying or supplying coal
Coalfield	n	Any region containing deposits of coal which may be mined.
Coalish	adj	Somewhat like coal, like a glowing, fiery.
Coal-less	adj	Without coal or not haing coal.
Coal-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of coal.
Coaly	adj	Abounding in coal; covered by coal, carbonaceous; coally.
Coalman	n	A coal-miner, as distinguished fro other types of miners.
Coalmine	n	A mine from which coal ore with minerals are mined.
Coalmonger	n	A trader and dealer of coal.
Coalworks	n	A place where coal is dug, inclding the machinery for raising the coal mined.
Coane	n.	Chawn, gap, deft, chink
Coath	vb.	To swoon, faint.
Coathe	n	Pains of childbirth, cothe.
Coathed	adj.	Diseased
Coathy	adj	Diseased, sick, ill.
Cobweb	n	From the Middle English coppeweb, from coppe (“spider”), from attercoppe, from Old English āttercoppe, from ātor (“poison”) + copp (“head”) + web (“web”). 2. a spiderweb, or the remains of one, especially an asymmetrical one that is woven with an irregular pattern of threads. 2. one of its filaments; gossamer. 3. (fig.) something thin and unsubstantial, or flimsy and worthless; rubbish.  4. an intricate plot to catch the unwary. 5. (internet, rare, slang) 6. a web page that either has not been updated for a long time, or that is rarely visited. 7. the European spotted flycatcher, Muscicapa striata.
Cobweb	n	Fig. fanciful, finespun reasoning. 2. a thing of flimsy, unsubstanstive nature.
Cobweb	vb	To cover with cobwebs or hanging with cobwebs.
Cobweb	phr	"To Have a Cobweb in the Throat" - to be thirsty with a desire to drink.
Cobwebbed	adj	Covered with cobwebs. 2. covered with thick interwoven pubesence, arachnoid.
Cobwebby	adj	Full of cobwebs; covered with cobwebs. 2. reembling cobwebs; of the nature of cobwebs. 3. thick, confused, of thought or reasoning.
Cobwebless	adj	Lacking or without cobwebs.
Cobweblike	adj	Characteristic, resembling or like cobwebs.
Cobweb morning	n	A misty morning.
Cobweb-spider	n	Any species of the world-spanning family 'theridiidae', that build tangle space webs, and have a comb of serrated bristles on the tarsus of the fourth leg.
Cobweb morning	n	Misty weather.
Cock	n	Game bird of the male gender, the cockbird, esp. of the pheasant. 2. a male bird, especially a domestic fowl; rooster. 3. a male chicken or other gallinaceous bird. 4. a male pigeon. 5. vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock.  6. a chief man; a leader or master. 7. the crow of a cock, esp. the first crow in the morning; cockcrow.
Cock	n	Hill, usually in placenames as 'Cockham.'
Cockcrow	n	The time of day at which the first crow of the rooster is heard; dawn, daybreak, first light.
Cocked	adj	Tilted, slanted, oblique, askewed.
Cocker	n	OE: coker, origanally, a receptacle; a case for arrows, quivers. 2. casing for the legs. 3. gaiters or legging. 4. coarse stockings.
Cock-eyed	adj	Having both eyes facing inwards. 2. crooked or askewed. 3. absurd, silly, or stupid, usu. in reference to ideas rather than people. 4. drunk.
Cockfight	n	Contest, in a cockpit, between game roosters fitted with cockspurs.
Cockfight	vb	To participate in (as a rooster) or organize and run as a gambler or bookie) a cockfighting event.
Cockily	adv	In a cocky manner: arrogantly, extremely confidently, boastfully.
Cockiness	n	The quality of being cocky; overly confident, arrogant and boastful. 2. strutting like a rooster.
Cockle	n	Darnel, sleepies: plants whose seeds have or produce a narcotic effect. 2. injurious plant growing amongst corn (tares). 3. corn-cockles.
Cock-of-the-walk	n	A proud or conceited person.
Cockscomb	n	The fleshy red crest of a rooster; coxcomb. 2. a conceited fop or dandy.
Cocksparrow	n	A male sparrow. 2. a quarrelsome, confident, somewhat arrogant person.
Cock up	phr	"To Cock up One's Ears." - to prick up, raise up, or listen attentively.
Cod	n	A bag, scrip. 2. a civet bag or musk bag. 3. a husk or outer covering of any fruit or seed. 4. pod, husk or seed vessel of a plant, esp. of peas, beans and their ongeners. 5. the belly, stomach. 6. scrotum; cocoon. 7. the centre of a spider's web.
Cod	vb	To produce cods or pods.
Codded	adj	Having or bearing pods
Codder	n.	Leather-worker, saddler
Codweed	n	Centaurea nigra.
Cofe	adv	OE cove, cafe, cof. - quickly, sharply, eagerly, promptly, soon.
Cold	n	(Of a thing) Having a low temperature.  2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold. 3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort. 4. unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.  5. dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial. 6.completely unprepared; without introduction. 7. unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness. 8. (usually with "have" or "know" ): perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart. 9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.   10. (obs.) not pungent or acrid. 11.(obsolete) unexciting; dull; uninteresting. 12. affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour. 13. (obs.) Not sensitive; not acute. 14. distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. 15. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour. synonyms: (of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool. 16. (of the weather): nippy, parky, taters (of a person or animal). 17. (unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming. 18.(unprepared): unprepared, unready. 19. (medicine) a common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever; (illness): common cold, coryza, head cold.
Cold	adv	With no warmth.
Cold	adj.	Feeling no warmth
Cold	phr	"A Cold Day In Hell" - something that will not happen or is likely to happen, (Before hell freezes over)
Cold	phr	"Cold as Ice" - very cold; unemotional and unfeeling of response.
Cold	phr	"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" - having cold hands is an indication of warm-heartedness, used as a quick respnse if one finds that another's hands are cold.
Cold	phr	"Come In From the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain.
Cold	phr	"Get Cold Feet" - to lose one's nerve; to have doubts about taking on an activity.
Cold	phr	"Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" - to treat with neglect and disdain.
Cold	phr	"Have A Handshake Like a Cold Fish" - to have a handshake lacking vigour, or emotion.
Cold	phr	"In Cold Blood" - to do deliberately and without excitement or sudden passion. 2. in a cold unemotional way.
Cold	phr	"Left Out in the Cold" - to be intentionally neglected, to be left care for oneself.
Cold	phr	"Throw Cold Water On"- of a suggestion, ideas, emotion, achievement, etc. - to belittle or dismiss, cast doubt upon, debunk.
Cold-blood	n	Blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles.
Cold-blooded	adj.	Having blood(physically) cold or not warmer than the external air or water; esp. said of fish & reptiles. 2. without excitement, feelings or sensibility; deliberately cruel; ruthless, merciless, heartless, dispassionately. 3. without compunction or human feeling.
Cold-bloodedness	n	An abscence of concern for others feelings or sufferings; cold-hearted, cold-heartedness, emotionless.
Cold bloodly	adj	In a manner without concern for the feeling and welfare of others; unemotionally.
Cold-bloodness	n	State of being cold-blooded, having an unregulated temperature; ectothermic. 3. state of lacking emotion or compunction.
Cold boot	vb	To reboot a computer by turning it and on.
Cold call	n	A sales call either by phone or in person made without referral or request by the recipient.
Cold calling	n	The calling of someone without preparation or referral. 2. a sales call unsolicited.
Cold chill	n	An ague fit.
Cold chips	n	Potato chips, ccrisp.
Cold fish	n	An emotionless person. 2. a heartless individual person, one lacking emotion. 3. (sl) a sexual partner who, during copulation, lacks vigour and emotional reciprocity.
Cold fish handshake	n	A handshake lacking vigour and emotional reciprocity.
Cold-handed	adj	Unemotional, lacking or without feeling.
Cold-handedness	n	State of being cold-handed.
Coldheaded	adj.	Wanting in sensibility or natural affection; unkind.
Cold-hearted	adj.	To be aloof and unfeeling.
Cold-heartedly	adv	In a cold-hearted manner.
Cold-heartedness	n	State of being cold-hearted or without sympathy, feeling of compassion, callous, or heartless.
Coldish	adj	Somewhat cold, rather cold.
Coldishly	adv	In a somewhat cold-hearted or unfeeling, unemotional manner.
Coldlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a cold (viral illness)
Coldliness	n	The realtive lack of heat. 2. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperature. 3. having limited enthusiasm, coolnes.
Coldly	adj	In a cold manner or state. 2. calmly, cooly, dispassionately. 3. without ardour, enthusiasm. 4. without heat, impatience.
Cold meat	n	(Sl) a corpse.
Cold meat box	n	(sl) a coffin.
Cold meat cart	n	(sl) a hearse.
Coldness	n	The state or condition of being cold. 2. the realtie lack of heat. 3. the sensation resulting from exposure to low temperatures. 4. limited or little enthusiasm or affection, coolness.
Cold one	n	Slang term for a beer.
Cold read	n	Performance of a script without preparation. 2. the act of cold reading. 2. cold-reading.
Cold read	vb	To perform a script without preparation.
Coldrife	adj	Full of cold.
Cold room	n	A room that is used to chill or freeze food stuffs.
Cold sell	n	To make a sale to a client who is not the primary target of a sales pitch. 2. a sale made by phone to a person ('cold call') made without referral or request by the recipient.
Cold selling	n	The act of making a sale to a client who is not the primary target of a sales pitch.
Cold-short	adj	Brittle when cold, said of metals, such as iron.
Cold shot	adj	Brittle when cold, as metal.
Cold shoulder	phr.	To Give Someone the Cold Shoulder" -ostentatiously ignore someone; as in, to give someone the cold shoulder
Cold sleep	n	A deep sleepduring which the body is stored at a very cold temperature to preserve it, cryonic sleep. 2. suspended animation, hibernation.
Cold sore	n	A small sore or blister on the lip, reulting from infection by the herpes virus.
Cold spot	n	A sensory area on the skin that responds to decrease in temperature.
Cold start	n	An attempt to start a vehicle engine when it is cold. 2. a military doctrine designed to make a rapid and limited penetration into enemy territory. It is not a plan for comphrensive invasion or occupation. 3. a colder than usually start to a season, as 'a cold start to winter.' 4. in computing, the reloading of a program or operating system.
Cold sweat	n	A physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; it maybe associated with fever or anxiety and stress.
Coldware	n
Cold water	adj	Desinating a room, apartment, flat, that is not provided with hot water or sometimes a bathroom, as a 'cold water flat.'
Cold wave	n	A short period of very cold weather; a cold snap.
Cole	n	Generic name for Brassica. 2. pottage.
Colewort	n	Originally, a general name for any plant of the cabbage kind, genus Brassica.
Collow	vb.	To make black or dirty with soot or coal dust. 2. to blacken, smut, begrime
Collow	n.	Soot, smut, grime of coal, coal dust.
Collowed	adj	Covered with smut, soot and general grime.
Collowing	n	The condition of becoming covered in soot and/ or grime.
Colly	vb	To blacken in character, blacken, denigrate. 2. to make black with blows; beat, thrash.
Colt	n	A young horse. 2. a cunning fellow, cheat. 3. a third swarm of bees in summer. 4. youthful tastes or desires; inclination to wantoness.
Colt	vb	To frisk and run wild as a colt (usu. implying wantonness. 2. to befool, cheat, take. 3. to swarm a third time as bees in summer.
Colthood	n	The state or quality of being a colt. 2. the colt stage ogf life.
Coltish	adj	Of, pertaining to, or resembling a colt or colts. 2. transfig. wild, friskly, untrained, untamed. 3. lustful, salacious, wanton.
Coltishly	adv	In a manner wildly unrestrained, wantonly, untamed.
Coltishness	n	The state or quality of being untamed, wild frisky, wanton.
Coltsfoot	n	Tussilage forfora.
Comb	n	A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place. 2. machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. 3. fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest, cocckscomb; (skin on head of birds): caruncle, snood, wattle. 4. structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb. 5.an old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter. 6. the top part of a gun’s stock. 7. the toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings. 8. (music) the main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached. 9. a former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre. 10. toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser. 11. the notched scale of a wire micrometer. 12. the collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb. 13. one of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions. 14. the curling crest of a wave; a comber. 15. toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis. 16. (weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
Comb	vb	Especially of hair or fur): to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. 2. to separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. 3. to search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. 4. to roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves. 5. to comb out, disentangle.
Combe	n	A long, narrow hill or ridge having steep sides. 2. crest or ridge of roof. 3. crest of a house.
Combed	adj	Of hair, wool and other fibres: combed or groomed. 2. searched, or gone through thoroughly. 3.disentangled.
Comber	n	A person who, or a machine that which combs wool or other fibres. 2. a long running wave breaking on the shore.
Combing	n	The act of combing. 2. combing etc. fragments of hair rmoved with a comb.
Comb-footed-spider	n	A spider of the Therididae family, which has combed-like structure on their hindmost feet.
Combless	adj	Without or lcking a comb, as some birds.
Comblike	adj	Resembling or like a comb in some aspects.
Comb-maker	n	The maker of arious types of combs.
Come	n	Arrival, coming, advent. 2. applied to the flow or flood or come of water.
Come	vb	To move from further away to nearer to.  2. to move towards the speaker. 3. to move towards the listener. 4. to move towards the object that is the focus of the sentence. 5. to move towards the agent or subject of the main clause. 6. to move towards an unstated agent. 7. to arrive. 8. to appear, to manifest itself. 9. to take a position to something else in a sequence. 10. to approach a state of being or accomplishment.  11. (fig., with to) to take a particular approach or point of view in regard to something. 12. to become, to turn out to be.  13. to be supplied, or made available; to exist. 14. (slang) to carry through; to succeed in. 15. happen. 16. to have a social background.  17. to be or have been a resident or native, as 'where did you come from?' 18. to have been brought up by or employed by.
Come	prp	Used to indicate an event, period, or change in state occurring after a present time.
Come	intj	An exclamation to express annoyance. 2. an exclamation to express encouragement, or to precede a request.
Come	phr	"Come Off It" - - you expect me to believe that.
Come	phr	"Come What May" - no matter what.
Come	phr	"How Come/" - how did that occur?
Come	phr	"If It Comes To That" - in that event.
Come	phr	If It Comes To This" - summarised; 'if it comes to this.'
Come	phr	"Let Them All Come" - an expression of confidence in the face of a challenge by others.
Come	phr	"This is Where We Come In" - our knowledge or knowing dates from this point. 2. we are back where we started.
Come	phr	"To Come About" - happen, occur, take place.
Come	phr	"To Come Above (another)" - to be thought of in a better light.
Come	phr	"To Come a Cropper" - to have a fall, both lit. and fig.
Come	phr	"To Come After" - to follow, succeed, replace. 2. to pursue, track, seek.
Come	phr	"To Come Again" - be reborn, come a second time, repeat what you said.
Come	phr	"To Come Against" - to oppose; contest with, knock or bump into
Come	phr	"To Come Along" - to move onwards, (to or with a speaker), often used as an exhortation.
Come	phr	"To Come A Long Way" - make considerable progress or improvement.
Come	phr	"To Come and Go" - to leave and return; to wander without an aim.
Come	phr	"To Come At" - to make a threatening moe towards someone or something.
Come	phr	"To Come Away" - break off, dislodge.
Come	phr	"To Come Back" - return to fame or prominence.
Come	phr	"To Come Back Empty-handed - to achieve long, fail.
Come	phr	"To Come Back To" - to return, remember.
Come	phr	"To Come Back To Earth" - to face reality.
Come	phr	"To Come Before" - to precede. 2. to stand before, as alleged offender before a court.
Come	phr	"To Come Beneath" - to be in a less successful position. 2. to be considered inferior to another or others.
Come	phr	"To Come Beside" - to approach and become beside or parallel with another.
Come	phr	"To Come Between" - lit. to be in-between two persons. 2. fig. to interfere in someone else's romance, to break a pair of lovers. 3. to have a position between one thing and another. 4. to cause a relationship to be less close.
Come	phr	"To Come By" - to acquire, possess. 2. to meet by chance; fortiously.
Come	phr	"To Come Clean (with some about something)" - to be honest about something; confess everything. 3. tell the truth often about something you wish to keep secret.
Come	phr	"To Come Down" - to be reduced or loss position or status.
Come	phr	"To Come Down On (hard)" - reprimand, criticise, or punish severely. 2. voice one's opposition, oppose. 3. have your opinion on something.
Come	phr	"To Come Down the Pike" - appear, become prominent: to happen, occur, appear.
Come	phr	"To come Down On The Side Of" - make a choice or decision in favour of.
Come	phr	"To Come Down To Us" - to be handed down or bequeathed (from previous generations.)
Come	phr	"To Come Down With Us" - to travel together to a specific location.
Come	phr	"To Come fast and Thick" - see 'come thick and fast.'
Come	phr	"To Come For (something or someone)" - to arrive to get something. 2. to arrive to convey someone another location. 3. to come to kill someone.
Come	phr	"To Come Forth" - to advance out of a place of retirement, come out, emerge; often as an encouraging or challenging.
Come	phr	"To Come Forward" - to approach, come from the background to the front. 2. to present oneself before the public, tribunal, or the like. 3. to make advances. 4. to volunteer.
Come	phr	"To Come From" - to come from or originate from somewhere.
Come	phr	"To Come From Behind" - to improve one's position relatie to the position of another person or thing. 2. to advance from a losing position. 3. advance from the rear on a losing position.
Come	phr	"To Come From Far and Wide" - come from everywhere. 2. to arrie from many positions and directions.
Come	phr	"To Come From Nowhere" - to come as a surprise with no warning.
Come	phr	"To Come From the Shadows" - to come from obscurity.
Come	phr	"To Come Good" - prove eventually to be helpful, talented or succeesful.
Come	phr	"To Come Hell and High Water" - to do something no matter what happens.
Come	phr	"To Come Hither" - flirtatious, seductive.
Come	phr	"To Come Home To Roost" - to be affected by a previous(bad) action
Come	phr	"To Come In" - enter hither, esp. into a house or enclosure. 2. to enter the arena or field.
Come	phr	"To Come in For" - to be inclined among those who recieve a share of anything. 2. to recieve incidentally. 3. to become subject to or recieve.
Come	phr	"To Come In For It" - to incur punishment or rebuke.
Come	phr	"To Come In From the Cold" - to gain widespread acceptance in a group or society, esp. where there was not any before. 2. return to safety and shelter. 3. come in out of the rain.
Come	phr	"To Come in Handy" - to be or find useful or opportune.
Come	phr	"To Come Into" - to enter some enclosed place or area. 2. to get something by good fortune; to reciee money or property from someone who has died; inherit. 3. to attain some state or condition. 4. to accede to power or office.
Come	phr	To Come Into Being" - to come into existence. 2. to be created or established.
Come	phr	"To Come Into Its (or Ones) Own" - show at ones best; achieve rightful recoognition. 2. get rightful possession of something.
Come	phr	"To Come Into One's Head" - to come to one, to realize, to come into one's knowledge.
Come	phr	"To Come Into Something" - to recieve money, or property from someone who has died.
Come	phr	"To Come Into the World" - to be born.
Come	phr	"To Come In With" - to overtake, to meet, fall in with.
Come	phr	"To Come Near To" - to approach in person, order, qualities, etc. 2. to come nigh.
Come	phr	"To Come Off" - to succeed, achieve.
Come	phr	"To Come On" - to advance thither forward often implying hostile intent.
Come	phr	"To Come Online" - to log on to a computer.
Come	phr	"To Come On Over" - to pay a casual visit to.
Come	phr	"To Come On to" - begin, start.
Come	phr	"To Come Out" - from a place: emerge, issue. 2. to publish, utter, give vent to.
Come	phr	"To Come Out In the Wash" -eventually have a satisfactory outcome.
Come	phr	"To Come Out Of" - to issue or emerge from. 2. to be bought or exported from.
Come	phr	"To Come Out of One's Shell" - to be more confident and less shy.
Come	phr	"To Come Out of the Woodwork" - to appear after being hidden or not active for a long while, esp. in order to do something unpleasant.
Come	phr	"To Come Out On Strike" - to take industrial action by leaving one workplace as a protest or demand.
Come	phr	"To Come Out Swinging" - to strongly defend about something you believe in.
Come	phr	" to Come Out On Top" - succeed eventually.
Come	phr	"To Come Out With" - to say, utter, blurt out.
Come	phr	"To Come Over" - to effect, or become, or make an impression, or visit.
Come	phr	"To Come Thick and Fast" - to appear repeatedly.
Come	phr	"To Come Through" - to emerge successfully. 2. as a prepostion, to survive (an illness, setback etc.)
Come	phr	"To Come To" - to regain consciousness; awake from sleep and regain awareness
Come	phr	"To Come To a Head" - (fig.) - of a problem: to reach a critical or crucial stage. 2. to reach a stage in a difficult situation when someone takes a strong action to deal with it.
Come	phr	"To Come To an End" - conclude, terminate, finish. 2. all things good or bad come to an end. 3. come to an untimely end.
Come	phr	"To Come To Bear" - something, usually, important that soon or later will impact upon some aspect of ones life. 2. to bring to bear.
Come	phr	"To Come To Blows" - to fight.
Come	phr	"To Come Together" - to meet, to attend something together, to catch up. 3. to come together in opinion, to agree.
Come	phr	"To Come To Life" - lit. to act as if alive after a time of seeming not to be alive.
Come	phr	"To Come To Light" - to be discoverd, revealed.
Come	phr	"To Come To Mind" - to remember.
Come	phr	"To Come To Nothing" - fail, after much endeavour
Come	phr	"To Come To Nought" -fail, after much endeaour.
Come	phr	"To Come To Oneself" - to begin behaving and thinking like one normally does.
Come	phr	"To Come To the Fore" - fig. to be well-known or prominent, to be important or growing in importance.
Come	phr	"To Come To Think of It" - to remember and consider a matter on reflection.
Come	phr	"To Come To This" - to result in a negative situation.
Come	phr	"To Come to Words" - to argue, dispute.
Come	phr	"To Come Under" - classified with, or subordinate to.
Come	phr	"To Come Undone" to disintegrate; fall to pieces, meet with disaster, come to grief, fall apart (lit. and fig.)
Come	phr	"To Come Unhinged" - to become deranged or mentally unbalanced. 2,. to be thrown into turmoil and confusion.
Come	phr	"To Come Unstuck" - fail, or encounter an unexpected problem.
Come	phr	"To Come Unto" - to attempt to seduce sexually.
Come	phr	"To Come Up" - to ascend, rise up, be elevated.
Come	phr	"To Come Upon" - find, discover (by chance).
Come	phr	"To Come Up For" - to be eligible for something; to be in line or in sequence for something.
Come	phr	"To Come Up To" - equal. 2. encounter.
Come	phr	"To Come Up With" - to be equal or level with. 2. to bring forth, discover or produce. 3. to suggest.
Come	phr	"Until the Cows Come Home" - for a very long time.
Come-again	n	A direction to come again. 2. a deferring of attention.
Come-all-Ye	n	A street-ballad, or folksong, whose opening words were 'come all ye maidens; young men, etc..
Come-and-Go	n	A passing backwards and forwards.
Comeback	n	An act or retaliation, a reply, a verbal retort. 2. a recovery, return from a former state or position. 3. to stage a comeback, reinstaement to a former position.
Come-backer	n	A retaliator. 2. one who retorts or replies. 3. one who makes a comeback to a profession, sport or other cativity.
Come-between	n	An intervention, one who or that which intervenes.
Comedown	n	A descent, a downfall, a notable reverse. 2. now, esp. a fall ir drop in social or official position or status.
Come-hither	n	An invitation to approach, an enticement, as a come-hither look.
Come-in	n	An entrance, ingress. 2. an arrival, immigration.
Comelily	adv	In a comely manner, prettily, decently, becoming, suiyably.
Comeliness	n	The quality of being comely. 2. suitableness, becomingness, seemliness, decency, propriety.
Comeling	n	One who has come to a place, as distinguished from its permanent residents. 2. an immigrant, stranger, foriegner, soujourner.
Comelingness	n	State of quality of soujourning, immigrating etc.
Comely	adj	Fair, pretty, beautiful, nice. 2. of things: expressing decent, sober or quiet beauty. 3. pleasing - in modern use a more homelier style of beauty which pleases, but does not excite admiration. 4. applied to those of noble station, 'as God and Jesus.' 5. pleasing in a moral sense to notions of propriety or esthetic taste, decent, proper, decorous. 6. befitting the purpose, appropriate.
Comely	adv	Handsomely, nicely, suitably, in a seemly or becoming manner.
Comely-looking	adj	Haing comely looks.
Comely maidens	n	Young, attractie, nubile women.
Comely-wise	adv	In a comely way.
Come-off	n	A coming off the field of action. 2. a conclusion, finish-up, an issue. 3. a conclusion of an argument, discourse. 4. a getting-off a task or duty, an evasion, excuse for non-performance. 5. something that has been tried and has 'come-off.' or succeeded.
Come-on	n	A swindle, swindling. 2. an inducement, enticement, lure; an invitation to approach. 2.something intended to attract, as in an advertisement. 3. statement or sometimes action reflecting sexual or relational interest.
Come-outer	n	One who 'comes out' or separates h/self on principle from an established society or organisation; originally applied to certain religious dissenters or radiacl reformers.
Comeover	n	Arrival, approach.
Come-'o'-will	n	"Come-of-will" - any person or thing that comes of his own accord without being invited. 2. a plant that springs up spontaneously. 3. a bastard child. 4. a pidgin or trade language.
Comer	n	A visitor, an arrival. 2. in combination, first-comer, newcomer, all-comers; up-and-comer. 3. anybody or somebody that comes or chooses to come. 4. a grower or springer-up, said of a plant. 5. a person or animal that shows promise of development or achieving success.
Comet	n	Late Old English comēta, from Late Latin, from Latin comētēs, from Greek komētēs, long-haired (star), comet, from komē, hair. A celestial body, observed only in that part of its orbit that is relatively close to the sun, having a head consisting of a solid nucleus surrounded by a nebulous coma up to 2.4 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) in diameter and an elongated curved vapor tail arising from the coma when sufficiently close to the sun. Comets are thought to consist chiefly of ammonia, methane, carbon dioxide, and water.
Comet-tail	n	The fiery afterburn of a comet.
Comet-year	n	A year in which a notable comet appears, as in Halley's Comet.
Coming	n	A sprouting, esp. of barley in malting. 2. that or something that comes; approaching in space in time or space. 3. inclination to make a meeting; an advance, readiness, eagerness, complaissant. 4. a rising in prominence, likelihood to attainment or to distinction.
Coming	phr	"Not Know Whether One Is Coming Or Going" - to be confused.
Coming	phr	"To Have It Coming" - to get what one deserves; to deserve what one gets.
Coming on	adv	Almost, nearly, nigh on.
Coming-together	n	A union. 2. a collision.
Cook	n.	One whose occupation is the preparation of fopod for the table.
Cook	vb.	To prepare food ; to make it fit for eating by application of heat, as by boiling, roasting, broiling.
Cook	phr	"To Cook the Books" - an obsolete maetaphor for cooking, where ingredients are changed, altered and improved by the process. Thus financial statements can be also be modified to the benefit of the "cook'. 2. to manipulate accounts information, especially illegally. 3. to falsify an account of an event.
Cookbook	n	A book of recipes with cooking directions.
Cookdom	n	The office or position of a cook. 2. the domain of cooks.
Cooked	adj	Of articles of food prepared by heat for eating. 2. combinations, such as half-cooked, ill-cooked, well-cooked.
Cooker	n	A stove or other apparatus, designed for cooking. 2. a vessel in which food is cooked. 2. a fruit, etc, that cooks well. 3. one who cooks up or doctors something; manipulation of financial accounts ('to cook the books') 4. (sl) a finisher.
Cook-house	n	A building or room in which the cooking is done. 2. an outdoor cooking kitchen.
Cooking	n	The act of preparing something (as food)by the application of heat;
Cooking-apple	n	An apple siutable for cooking, such as the "Granny Smith: apple."
Cooking pot	n	A pot which food is cooked in.
'Cooking-shop	n	an eating house.
Cookish	adj	Like a cook. 2. somewhat cooked.
Cookless	adj	Without a cook.
Cook-off	vb	In military terms: to pull the pin from the grenade and wait two or three seconds before throwing it. 3. to unintentionally wait so long that the grenade detonates. 4. to accidentally (or sometimes cause) a grenade to detonate as the result of excess heat.
Cookout	n	An outdoor gallery at which food is cooked; b-b-q. 2.
Cookroom	n	A kitchen.
Cookship	n	The function or position of a cook.
Cookshop	n	A shop where food is cooked and sold; restaraunt, eating-house.
Cook top	n	An assembly of burners for cooking, designed to fit onto the surface, such as the top of a table.
Cook wench	n	A girl working at a cookshop, restaraunt, eating-house. (beer wench.)
Cook up	vb	To prepare a meal. 2. to manufacture, fabricate, to devis an elaborate ?????. 3. to prepare a heroin dose by heating.43. to make a large amount of illegal drugs.
Cookware	n	Various objects, such as pots, pans, baking dishes, etc. used for cooking.
Cool	n	That which is cool, the cool part, place, time, thus a 'cool breeze,' a light refreshing wind.
Cool	vb.	To lose heat, to get colder. 2. to make cooler, less warm. 3.(fig.), to become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. 4. to make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate
Cool	adj	Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold. 2. allowing or suggesting heat relief. 3. a cool grey colour. 4. of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control. 5. unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical. 6. calmly audacious. 7. (informal) of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others. 8. (informal) in fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang. 9. (informal) of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem. 10.(informal) a dismissal of a comment perceived as boring or pointless. 11. (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting. 12 applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
Cool	phr	"To Cool Down" - to be cooler, reduced in temperature. 2. to cause to cool down.
Cool	phr	"To Cool It" - to calm or quiten down.
Cool	phr	"To Cool One's Heels" - to wait, esp. impatiently and restlessly
Cool box	n	Car-fridge, eskie, ice-chest.
Cooled	adj	Made cool; lowered in temperature. 2. refrigerated at a lower or reduced state of coolness.
Cooler	n	Anything that cools, such as a coolroom, eskie, cool-box, ice-chest, etc. 2. an insulated container with ice and freezer packs to keep ffood and drink cold when camping or other outdoor excursion. 3. a mixed drink, of alcoholic and non-alocoholic contents, served chilled. 4. (sl) a bouncer, ground-controller, doorman, security staff. 5. (sl) prison.
Cool-headed	adj	Free from excitement, not easily excited in the mind. 2. having an even temper and being calm and in control.
Coolheadedly	adv	In a coolheaded manner
Coolheadness	n	The state or characteristic of being coolheaded: having an even temper and being calm and in control.
Coolhunter	n	One who observes emerging trends and styles, usually involing street fashion, and sells the data to companies.
Coolhunting	n	The observation of emerging trends and styles, usually involing street fashion, as a form of market research.
Cooling	n	A decrease in tempature. 2. refrigeration, that which cools.
Coolingly	adv	In a cooling manner or way.
Cooling tower	n	A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation carried by circulating currents of air.
Coolish	adj	Somewhat cool, quite or rather cool.
Coolness	n	The state of being cool, as in chilly. 2. the result or product of being cool, as in chilly. 3. the state or result of being cool, as in good or pleasurable. 4. in a state of composure, or control.
Coolroom	n	In a laboratory, (chemical) a large cupboard or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage. 2. in a restaurant, (chemical) a large, chilled container or room kept at a temperature lower than room temperature for long term, stable storage of perishable foods.
Coolth	n	Coolness. 2. a cold (malady)
Coolwort	n	Saxifragacae.
Cooly	adj	Of a cool, refreshing quality.
Coom	n.	Soot formed on a fireplace (culm), blacksmith furnace, refuse
Coom	vb	To begrime with smut, as in soot.
Coomy	adj.	Covered or blackened by soot, dust, grime. 2. Soily, smirchy
Coomb	n.	Small valley, hollow, deep hollow or valley in Old English times. 2. a valley, a steep short valley running up from the sea coast.
Coomb	n	A vessel, cup or perhaps a small measure. 2. brewing tub, vat. 3. a dry measure of capacity, equal to four bushels.
Cop	n.	Summit, top, peak, brow, esp of a hill, 2. top of anything, esp. of a hill, 3. the head. 4. bird's crest; crest on the head of a bird. 5. heap, mound, tumulus. 6. ridge. 7. an enclosing mound or bank; a hedge bank. 8. a centre ridge of a butt of ploughed land. 8. spider.
Cop	vb	To pile up in a tumulus, heap or mound, to bank up. 2. to plough in ridges.
Cop-bone	n.	Kneebone
Copen	vb.	Desire eagerly, long for, yearn deeply
Copener	n.	Paramour
Copped	adj	Haing the head cut off, polled. 2. rising to the top of the head. 3. heaped in tumulus. 4. crested, having a tuft on the head. 5. saucy, peeish, crabbed, heady.
Copper	n	from Old English, from Late Latin cuprum, from Latin Cyprium (aes) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29. 2. a coin, usually of small denomination, made of copper or a copper alloy. 3. chiefly British a large cooking pot made of copper or often of iron. 4. any of various small butterflies of the subfamily Lycaeninae, having predominantly copper-colored wings.
Copper	vb	To cover with copper. 2. to sheathe the bottom and sides with copper, as of a ship.
Copper	adj	Reddish-brown in colour. 2. made of copper
Copper-bottomed	adj	Haing the bottom covered with copper. 2. fig. thoroughly sound, genuine, authentic, trustworthy.
Coppered	adj	Of the colour of copper. 2. covered with copper, coated or copper plated.
Copperen	adj	Made of copper.
Copper-head	n	A snake with copper coloured head. 2. a nickname given, during the American Civil War, to a northern sympathizer by Secessionists of the south.
Copperish	adj	Somewhat coppery in colour.
Copperless	adj	Without or lacking in copper.
Coppersmith	n	An artificer in copper, one who manufactures copper utensils.
Coppersmithing	n	The art of the coppersmith.
Coppersmithy	adj	Pertaining to the art of the coppersmith and coppersmithing.
Copperware	n	Utensils made of copper.
Copery	adj	Characterized by the presence, quality or application of copper
Copse	n.	OE. ? a shackle for any part of the body. Foot-copse: leg iron; Hand-copse: manacle; Wear-copse: neck-copse; 2. Hapse for fastening a gate or door; fastener.
Corn	n	The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.   2. in US, Canada, Australia, maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays. 3. grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop. 4. small, hard particle.
Corn	vb	US, Canada: to granulate; to form a substance into grains. 2. to corn gunpowder. 3. in US, Canada, Australia: to preserve using coarse salt, e.g. corned beef. 4. in US, Canada): to provide with corn (typically maize; or, in Scotland, oats) for feed. 5. to render intoxicated, as 'ale strong enough to corn one.' 6. short for corn snow, a type of granular snow formed by repeated melting and re-freezing, often in mountain spring conditions. as corny, something appealing to country folk in US, Canada something (e.g. acting, humour, music, or writing) which is deemed old-fashioned or intended to induce emotion.
Cornbread	n	Bread made from cornmeal
Corn-cockle	n	Lynchis githago. In previous times cockle (tares) was used generally for an intrusive weed that grew in corn fields.
Corn-dealer	n	Cornmonger.
Corned	adj	Formed into grains or particles, granulated. 2. bearing seeds or grains; having seeds developed. 3. intoxicated.
Cornfield	n	A field planted with corn.
Cornhouse	n	Granary.
Corning	n	The action or process of granulation. 2. pickling with salt, salting. 3. the growing or cultivation of grain.
Cornish	adj	Of the corn kind.
Cornmonger	n.	Corndealer, (monger of corn) often contemptous implication of greed and extortion
Cornstalk	n	A tough, fibrous ?? of corn (maize), often ground for silage after harvest.
Corn thistle	n	A perennial herb, Cirsulum arvense
Corn-tree	n	OE: corntreow. cornel tree.
Corny	adj	As such a type as appeals to country-folk or unsophisticated, tiresomely or ridiculously old-fashioned or sentimental, hackneyed, trite, inferior. 2. producing corny, abounding in corn or grain. 3. intoxicated, tipsy.
Cosp	n	OE: cosp - hasp, a shackle
Cost	n.	Way, manner, available course, means, contrivance. 2. quality, condition, wont or habit, disposition, kind, charactristic.
Cost	n.	The herb called Alecost or Costmary.
Costen	vb.	To try, tempt.
Costening	n.	Temptation, costnung, testing, trial, tribulation.
Cot	n.	Small house, little cottage, poetical connoting smallness, humbleness, (rather than meanness or rudeness expressed by hut.) That is: cot-folk, cot-town. 2. a finger stall
Cote	n.	OE: parallel form of cyte: cell. - a small detached house occupied by the poor, and labourers. Note: Cottage: a slight building for the shelter of animals (pigcote, hen-cote, fowl-cote, sheepcote) 2. small building for storage, shed, stall.
Cote	vb.	To enclose and shelter animals in a pen, enclosure.
Coteful	adj	As much as a cote can hold.
Cot-folk	n	Cottar folk
Cothe	n	Coathe: the pangs of childbirth.
Cothouse	n	Cottage, a small cottage, working man's cottage. 2. a slight shelter, shed, shelter.
Cotland	n.	A piece of land (about 5 acres) held by a cotman, cotlander, cotter along with his cot.
Cotlif	n.	Life or living, dwelling in a cot, see: mynster-lif: a monastery. 2. a house, cottage, possibly a village.
Cotly	adv	Quickly, keenly, boldly, fiercely
Cotman	n	Cottager, cotter; a tenant of a cot(e).
Cotquean	n	The housewife of a cot or labourer's hut. 2. opprobriously, a woman to whom the manners of such a housewife are attributed. 3. a scolding, coarse, vulgar, woman, low beldam, beldam, a fish-wife, tinker's wife. 4. a man who acts the housewife; often a man who has been cuckolded by his wife.
Cotquean	vb	To play the cotquean, said of a man.
Cotqueaned	adj	One, in modern use, a man who acts the housewife.
Cotqueanish	adj	Rather or somewhat cotqueaned.
Cotquean-like	adj	Characterized or resembling a cotquean.
Cotset	n.	Cottage settler, (In Doomesday Book) 2. in OE: a villein who occupied a cot or cottage with an attached plot of land, held by service of labour.
Cotted	adj	Dotted or lined with cottages.
Cotter	n.	A peasant or tenant who occupies a cottage (cot-house) belonging to a farm (usu. 5 acres) as a sort of out-servant.
Cottish	adj	Cotqueanish.
Couch-grass	n.	a species of grass, Triticum repens, with long, creeping root-stalks
Cough	vb	From Middle English coughen, coghen, apparently from Old English *cohhian (but not recorded) (compare Old English cohhetan (“to shout”)), from Proto-Germanic *kuh-. 1. to push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion; to expectorate, spit, spit up.
Cough	n	A sudden, usually noisy expulsion of air from the lungs, often involuntary. 2. a condition that causes one to cough; a tendency to cough; tussification.
Cough	phr	"To Cough Up" - give up reluctantly. 2. spit up, expectorate, tussive.
Coughy	adj	Pertaining to coughing, tussive, expectorative, spitty.
Could	vb	From Middle English coude, from Old English cūþe, past indicative and past subjunctive form of cunnan (“to be able”). The addition of the silent 'l' was likely a misappropriation attempting to normalize with modal verbs will/would and shall/should. However, while the letter l was historically pronounced in the latter two, can never did have an l sound in it. Verb: 1. simple past tense of can. 2. conditional of can. 3. used as a past subjunctive (contrary to fact). 4. used to politely ask for permission to do something. 5. used to politely ask for someone else to do something. 6. used to show the possibility that something might happen. 7. used to suggest something.
Could	phr	"I Could Do With" - I would like to have
Could	phr	"I Could Do Without" - I don't wish to have.
Couldn't	vb	Negative form of 'could.'
Couldn't	phr	"I Couldn't Care Less" - used to express an uncaring opinion.
Coulter	n.	The iron blade fixed at the front of a share plough; also attributively.
Coulterneb	n.	The local name for the Puffin, so called because of the shape of its bill.
Court	n.	In OE. an assembly held by the sovereign at his residence. From OF.
Courtleet	n.	Court record. 2. a court district or jurisdiction or district which jurisdiction extends. See: court.
Couth	adj.	A back -formation of 'uncouth' - as of a quality of things: known, (wide couth: well known, familiar, famous, acquainted, renown. 2. of persons and their actions: kind, affable, agreeable, pleasant, well-mannered. 3. comfortable, smug, cosy. antonym: uncouth.
Couth	adv	Clearly, manifestingly, familiarly.
Couthily	adv	In a clear, manifestily manner
Couthiness	n	Friendliness, familiarity, affability. 2. renownness, agreement, pleasance. 3. acquaintance. 4. smugness, cosiness, complacency.
Couthlike	adj	Characteristic of friendship, kindness, etc.
Couthly	adv	Familarly, friendly, kindly, as a friend. 2. in the knowledge of being familiar.
Couth-ut-laughe	n	Couth-out-law: a term applied to a person knowingly harbouring or concealing an outlaw, or perhaps, more properly the offence of doing so.
Couthy	adj	Action as befits a person well known to everyone. 2. full of friendly familarity warm and friendly, kindly, pleasantly, genial. 3. of things: agreeable, pleasant, nice.
Cove	n.	In a rock hollow or recess in a rock. 2. recess in a precipitious mountain side. 3. Sheltered place or recess in forest, hills, woods. 4.cell in a pigeon coup. 5. a nook.
Cow	n.	The female of the domestic or of any bovine animal. The female of some other large animals, eg, elephant, whale.
Cow	phr	"The Cow With An Iron Tail" - a pump.
Cowbane	n	Any of the several related poisonous plants of the genus, Cicuta; esp. the water hemlock.
Cowberry	n	Vaccinum vitis; foxberry.
Cowed	adj	Depressed or disappointed through fear; overrawed.
Cowflesh	n	Beef.
Cowhand	n	An worker who manages the general day to day handling of cows.
Cow-hearted	adj.	Faint-hearted, timorous, meek and mild; cowardly.
Cowherd	n	Cows in a herd or group.
Cow-herder	n	One who herds or drives cows to specific locations; a drover.
Cowhide	n	The skin of or outer dermic layer of a cow.
Cowhiding	n	The process and preparation of turning cowhides into leather.
Cowhouse	n	A building where cows are keeped for shelter and safety. 2. a milking shed.
Cowing	n	Overawing, intimidation.
Cowish	adj	Like a cow, characteristic of a cow. 2. somewhat or rather fearful, afraid, meekish.
Cowkeeper	n	A diary man and/or beef farmer.
Cowl	n.	A garment with a hood, esp worn by monks; occasionally the hood alone. Sometimes = a monk.
Cowled	adj	Furnished with or wearing a cowl.
Cowlish	adj	Characteristic of a monk, monkish. 2. adorned or attired in a cowl.
Cow-leech	n.	Cow doctor
Cowlness	n	The state of wearing a cowl. 2. monkhood.
Cowmilk	n	Milk produced by a cow or cows in herd.
Cowpath	n	A track used by cows usually leading to a milking-shed; a cowper.
Cowshard	n.	Cowdung, sheard, sharn
Cowshed	n	A shed or house where cows are kept.
Cowslip	n.	Cow-dung. 2. the common name of Primula veris, a well known wild plant in pastures and grassy banks. also some plants of the genus 'carduus lanceolatus'
Cow's-lungwort	n	Mullein, fellwort, flannel leaf.
Cow-shard	n	Cow dung, cow turd, cowslip. 2. cow dung; cow -sharn.
Cowy	adj	Bovine; pertaining to a cow, characteristic of cows.
Cowyard	n	A yard or enclosure where cows are held.