List of Old English Words in the OED/DA

Old English	sb	English
Daft	adj	Mild, gentle, meek, humble. 2. silly, foolish, stupid, wanting in intelligence. 3. thoughtless, giddy in one's mirth, madly happy. 4. of unsound mind, crazy.
Daft	phr	"Daft as a Brush" - very stupid, extremely silly.
Daft	phr	"Daft days" - the days of merriment at Christmas.
Daftish	adj	Somewhat foolish, silly. 2. somewhat thoughtless, or stupid. 3. meekish, rather humble.
Daftlike	adj	Foolish, silly, thoughtless.
Daftly	adv	Mildly, meekly, gently, humbly. 2. foolishly, silly, thoughtlessly.
Daftness	n	Foolishness, madness, silliness. 2. meekness, mildness, humility.
Dafty	adj	Foolish, silly, stupid.
Dailiness	n	The quality of being daily , daily occurence, common-ness.
Daily	adj	Habitually, constantly, every day, day by day, commonly, evidently. 2. of or belonging each day, occurring every day, issued every, as a newspaper.
Daily bread	n	Livelihood,
Daily breader	n	One who earns his living.
Daily grind	n	The difficult, routine, or monotonous tasks of daily life.
Daisy	n	Bellis perennis - 'eye of the day' 2. (sl) an excellent person.
Daisy	phr	"Under the Daisies" - dead, passed away.
Daisylike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a daisy.
Daisy roots	n	Cockney rhyming slang for boots.
Daisy wheel	n	A printing device.
Dale	n	A valley, usually a river valley (poetic); deep or low place. 2. pit, hollow, gulf; hole in the ground.
Dale	phr	"Uphill and Down Dale" - here, there and everywhere. several variants are: over every hill and dale, up all hills and down all dales.'
Dale-land	n	The lower and arable ground of a district.
Dale-lander	n	One who lives in or near a dale.
Daleside	adj	The side or banks of a dale.
Dalesman	n	A person, native or inhabitant who lives near or in a dale.
Dalk	n.	Pin brooch, clasp, buckle. 2 hollow, depression, hole
Dam	n	OE: demman, dem. a bank or barrier of earth, etc. built across a stream, river to obstruct its flow and raise its level. 2. a body of water held back by a dam.
Dam	vb	To provide or furnish with a dam. 2. to obstuct by means of a dam. 3. (fig.) to stop up, block, obstruct, confine.
Dane	n	A native or inhabitant of Denmark; in older use including Northmen generally.
Danegeld	n	An annual tax, imposed originally to provide funds for the protection of England against danish attack, and continually subsequently as a land tax.
Danelaw	n	Danish law imposed anciently over parts of England occupied by the Danes. 2. the district northeast of Watling street, where Dane prevailed.
Danes'-blood	n	Danewort, dane-weed.
Danewort	n	Plants being supposed to spring up in places where Danish blood was splt in battle. 2. Sambucus elder, dwarf elder.
Dare	vb	OE:darian; stem of flemish and low german: bedaren: to calm, appease. 2. to gaze fixedly or stupidity. 3. to stare as one terrified, amazed or fascinated. 4. to be in dismay, to tremble with fear. lose heart, dread. 5. to lie motionless (with a sense of fear, to lie appalled, to crouch. 6. to droop with dare; to daunt with fear, terrify, paralyse with fear (dialect). 7. to be hidden, lie hidden, lurk. 8. to hide from, escape, to be unknown to. 9. to daze, paralyse, or render helpless. 10. in the sight of something: to dazzle, and fascinate.
Dare	vb	To be bold, have boldness or courage. 2. to dare to go, to venture. 3. to dare to undertake to do. 4. to venture upon. 5. to venture to meet, to challenge, to defy.
Dare	n	A dare, an act of daring, defying, a defiance, a challenge. 2. boldness. 3. a contrivance to catch larks.
Dare	phr	"To Dare Larks" - to fascinate and daze larks, in order to catch them (also fig: )
Dare	adj	Daring, bold.
Dare-all	adj.	Fearless, dreadnought. 2. a covering that braves all kinds of weather
Dare devil	n	Lit: one ready to dare the devil: one who is recklessly daring.
Dare-devil	adj	Pertaining to the devil; recklessly daring.
Dare-devilish	adj	Somewhat reckless, bold or daring.
Dareful	adj	Full of daring or defiance. 2. full of boldness and dare, challenging, defying.
Daren't	vb	Not to dare or be bold or venturing.
Darer	n	One who dares or ventures. 2. one who is bold, challenges and defies
Daresay	vb	I think something to be probable (contraction of 'I dare say'.)
Daresome	adj	Foolhardy, venturesome, bold, defying, challenging.
Daring	n	The action of the verb (dare): adventuring, courage, boldness, hardihood, foolhardiness
Daring	n	The action of the verb (dare):to gaze fixedly or stupidity. 2. esp. the catching of larks by dazzling or fascinating them3. to stare as one terrified, amazed or fascinated. 4. to be in dismay, to tremble with fear. lose heart, dread. 5. to lie motionless (with a sense of fear,to lie appalled, to crouch. 6. to droop with dare; to daunt with fear, terrify, paralyse with fear (dialect). 7. to be hidden, lie hidden, lurk. 8. to hide from, escape, to be unknown to. 9. to daze, paralyse, or render helpless. 10. in the sight of something: to dazzle, and fascinate.
Daring	adj	Of persons and their attributes: bold, adventorous, hardy, audacious.
Daring	adj	Staring, trembling or crouching in fear.
Daring-hardy	adj	So bold, fearless and foolhardy to be on the point of rcckless as dare-devil.
Daringly	adv	In a daring, bold, fearless manner quality or state.
Daringness	n	The state or quality of be daring.
Dark	n	An absence of light. 2. darktime, night. 3. a dark colour, spot, blot. 3. condition of being hidden from view, obscure or unknown.
Dark	vb	(Superseded by 'to darken') -to make dark, to become dark. 2. of the sun or moon to suffer an eclipse. 3. to cloud, dim, obscure, hid something luminous. 4. to darken in shade or colour. 5. to be or become blind. 6. to obscure, eclipse, dim, cloud, sully. 7. to lie in the dark, hide or be unseen. 8. to listen privily and insidiously. 9. to deprive a person of lustre, renown, to eclipse someone; denigrate another.
Dark	adj	Devoid or deficient of light, unilluminated. 2. refecting or transmitting little light; gloomy,sombre. 3. approaching black in hue; deep in shade, (opposite to light); of the complexion; the opposite of fair. 4. devoid of moral or spiritual light, evil, wicked, foul, insidious; (in a stronger sense) driven by turpitude or wickedness of a sombre nature; foul, iniquitious, atrocious. 5. gloomy, dismal, sad. 6. obscure in meaning. 7. indiscernible. lacking intelligence; dull and slow; not mentally alert. 8. concealed, secret as in 'to keep (or in the )dark. ; of a person: reticient, not open, concealing of thoughts or design. 9. of whom little is known or regarded; obscure in name or fame. 10. not able to see, without sight, blind; partially blind. 11. lacking intelligence; dull and slow; not mentally alert; mentally or spiritually black; uninformed, disliking of knowledge, ignorant. 12. obscure to the 'mind's eye' or to memory; indiscernible. 13. of a theatre: closed.
Dark	phr	"A Leap into the Dark" - a rash move.
Dark	phr	"Dark of the Mpon" : cloudy and dark weather; clouded moon.
Dark	phr	"To Keep Someone in the Dark" - to confine madmen and lunatics to a darkroom, 2. (fig.) to keep the truth or matter secret or concealed from someone. 3. a state of ignorance, without knowledge, as concernig some particular fact.
Dark-browed	adj	A dark-browed sophist.
Dark days	n	Black days; troubled times, such as wartime, or catastrophic natural disasters.
Dark elf	n	In Norse Mythology a member of the race of 'Dokkalfar' creatures ho live underground. 2. fantasy, a member of a race or evil elfs. word a calque of O.N. word.
Darken	vb	See vb. to dark ; to grow dark or become dark, as 'darken down.' 2. to grow clouded, gloomy or sad. 3. to make dark deprive of light(also fig.) 4. to deprive of sight, make blind (lit. and fig.). 5. to make dark or obscure in meaning. 6. to cloud, to cast a gloom or shadow over.
Darken	phr	"To Darken Someone's Door" (never darken my door again)
Darkened	adj	Made dark in shade or colour.
Darkener	n	One who darkens.
Darkfall	n	The coming on of the dark, dusk, nightfall.
Dark-flowing	adj	(Of hours, time) in dark flowing hours: through the night; esp. in the early hours of the morning.
Darkful	adj	Full of darkness.
Dark-hearted	adj	Disposed to doing or wishing evil; malevolent; black-hearted.
Dark-heartedly	adv	Malevolently, blackheartedly.
Dark-heartedness	n	The state or quality disposed to doing or wishing evil; malevolence, black-heartedness.
Darkhood	n.	State or condition of darkness.
Darkhorse	n	A racehorse, competitor, etc., who little is known about or who wins an event, etc., unexpectedly. 2. a candidate who wins. unexpectedly
Darkhouse	adj	A dark underground room.
Dark Inn	n.	"The Dark Inn" - the grave, tomb, grass-bed, mould-earth, the pit, the delf, the deep-six, lair, narrow house, long-home, dustbin (sl), burial-place.
Darkish	adj	Somewhat or rather dark through the absence of light.
Darkishly	adv	In a darkish way or manner,
Darkishness	n	Darkish quality or state.
Darkle	vb	To show itself darkly.to grow dark. 3. of the countenance: to become dark in anger; very angry; scorn. 4. to render dark or obscure.
Darkle	phr	"To Lie Darkling" - to lie in the dark, to conceal oneself.
Darkling	n.	One whose personality is dark; child of the darkness. 2. one whose nature and characteristics are 'dark.'
Darkling	adv	Being, proceeding, etc. in the dark. 2. showing itself darkly; darksome, obscure.
Darklong	adv	Towards or inclined to the darkness.
Darkly	adj	In the dark; somewhat dark . 2. in a gloomy, frowning ominous manner. 2. in an obscure, vague or mysterious manner. 4. with obscure vision, dimly, blinding.
Darkman	n	The night.
Dark-minded	adj	Pessimistic.
Darkness	adj
Darknet	n
Dark-night	n	The dark night of the soul (spiritual entity); time of despair and anguish.
Dark ride	n	An indoor amusement ride where riders in guided vehicles ride through specially lit scenes, often with animated sounds, and special effects (similar to the 'ghost train'
Dark room	n	A room where photos are developed. 2. a dark room where sexual activity takes place, especailly in some clubs.
Dark-shining	adj	The dark-shining dusk of night.
Darkship	n	The personality of one who is dark; darkhood, darkness.
Dark-skinned	adj	Having a relatively dark skin; swarthy.link title
Dark-sleeper	n	The fish also named goby and found in south Asia, 'Odontus obscura.'
Dark-smoke	n	Heavily polluted smoke, as carbon emission from coalburning chimneys.
Darksome	adj	Somewhat dark or gloomy. 2. characterized (more or less) by darkness. 3. somewhat dark in shade or colour, sombre. 4. characterized by obscurity of meaning. 5. charactrized by gloomm, sadness or cheerlessness. morally of a dark character.
Darksomely	adv	In a manner some what dark or gloomly. 2. sombrely. 3. obscurely in meaning. 4. sadly. cheerlessly. 5. evilly.
Dark-someness	n	Darkness, obscurity.
Dark wave	n	A genre or movement of music first heard in the 1970s putting together elements of "New Wave' and Gothic rock with dark, thoughtful lyrics and an undertone of sorrow.
Dark-waver	n	A performer, fan of Dark Wave music.
Darky	n	"The Darky" - the night. 2. a lantern
Darling	n	An object of a person's love. 2. a favorite, pet. (transfig. & fig.)
Darling	adj	Dearly-loved, beat-loved, favourite.
Darlingly	adv	In a manner of being dearly-loved and favoured.
Daswen	adj.	Of eyes or sight: dim
Daughter	n	Female child or offspring. 2. a female descendant; a woman in relation to her native country or place. 3. a term of affectioante address used by a senior. 4. a girl, maiden, young women. 5. fig. anything personified as female) viewed in relation to its source or origin.
Daughterdom	n	The realm or world of daughters; daughters collectively.
Daughterhood	n.	State or condition of daughters collectively.
Daughter-in-law	n	The wife of one's son.
Daughter-i(s)lands	n	The British Empire with all daughter-islands around her. -colonies; member states of the British Commonwealth.
Daughterless	adj	Not having or without daughhters.
Daughter-like	adj	Resembling a daughter.
Daughterliness	n	State or quality of a daughter.
Daughterling	n	A little daughter.
Daughterly	adv	Pertaining to, or characteristic ogf a daughter. 2. filial, sororial.
Daughtership	n	Condition or relation of a daughter.
Daw	vb.	To dawn with day, wake or arouse from sleep, swoon, adawe. 2. to revive, bring to.
Dawing	n	Day, daybreak, twilight, dawning. 2. recovering from a swoon; a-bringing-to
Dawn	n
Dawn	phr	"Dawn of Life" - origin of the universe.
Dawn	phr	"Dawn of a New Day" - see: "the dawning of a new day'
Dawn	phr	"To Dawn On" - of an idea: to occur to someone.
Dawn-goddess	n	The Sun-God Of various religions.
Dawning	n	The first beginning of something.
Dawning	phr	"The Dawning of a New Day" - idiom: a new beginning, a fresh start, an important turning point.
Dawnless	adj	Without a dawn; mornless/
Dawnlight	n	The light of Dawn or daybreak.
Dawnlike	adj	Resembling dawn or some aspects of it.
Dawn-man	n	A generic for a very primitive form of mankind, such as stone-age man.
Dawntime	n	The time of dawn. 2. the time when something is just beginning.
Dawn-woman	n	The Earth or First Mother; Eve.
Day	n	Any period of 24 hours. 2. a period from midnight to the following midnight. 3.(astronomy) Rotational period of a planet (especially Earth). 4. the part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. 5. part of a day period between sunrise and sunset where one enjoys daylight; daytime. 6. a specified time or period; time, considered with reference to the existence or prominence of a person or thing; age; time. 6. a period of contention of a day or less.
Day	vb	To appoint a day to anyone. 2. to cite or summon for an appointed day. 3. to submit to day by arbitration. 4. to appoint or fix a date or day. 5. to measure by the day. 6. to furnish with a day. 7. to dawn.
Day	phr	"A Cold day in Hell" - never (will happen.)
Day	phr	" A Nine Day Wonder" - an exciting event, but one which will cease to arouse interest when the novelty has worn off.
Day	phr	"All Day Long" - continously, without a break for the whole day.
Day	phr	"Any Day Now " soon, at any moment.
Day	phr	"Any Day Of the Week" - at any time.
Day	phr	"At The End of the Day" -in due couse or at the conclusion of the peroject
Day	n	"Dawn of new Day" - to be the start of a new day.
Day	phr	"Day After Day" - each day as a sequel to the preceding.
Day	phr	"Day and Night" - all the time, around the clock.
Day	phr	"Day by Day" - daily, every day in turn.
Day	phr	"Day In, Day Out" - continously (and monotonously) for several days.
Day	phr	"Day of Reckoning" - time when one will have to account for past actions.
Day	phr	"Day of Wine and Roses" - a bygone era of innocence and simplicity, esp during youth.
Day	phr	"Day or Night" - at any time
Day	phr	"Every Dog Has its Day"- good luck comes to one sooner or later
Day	phr	"For Days On End" - for many consecutive days.
Day	phr	"From Day One" - from the beginning or start.
Day	phr	"From Day to Day" - continously without interruption. 2. as time progresses.
Day	phr	"Have a Day Out" -
Day	phr	"Have a Field Day" - a very successful and enjoyable occasion.
Day	phr	"Have One's Day (in the Sun" - to have a time when is prosperousand/or succesful.
Day	phr	He Would Not Give Anyone the Time of Day - he is unwilling to help anybidy.
Day	phr	"In Days of Yore" -in remte historical times.
Day	phr	"In Days To Come" - the future.
Day	phr	"In the Cold, Hard Light of Day - in an unemotional atmosphere at a later time.
Day	phr	"In the Good Old Days" - earlier times remembered with fondness.
Day	phr	"Keep Something for a Rainy Day' -to keep something in reserve for later.
Day	phr	Late in the Day" - only when the project is well advanced.
Day	phr	"Meet One's Day of Reckoning".
Day	phr	"To End One's Days" - to die (over a period of time)
Day	phr	"To Fall On Evil Days" - suffer unfortunate circumstances.
Day	phr	"To Make a Day of It" - spend all day doing something enjoyable.
Day	phr	"To Make somebody Day" - give somebody a welcome surprize.
Day	phr	"To This Day" - to the present time.
Day	phr	"To Win the Day" - carry the day, be victorious, succeed.
Day and Night	n
Daybeam	n	The light or sunbeam of the day.
Daybed	n.	Sofa, couch, lounge, a bed to rst on during the day.
Dayberry	n	A local name for the gooseberry.
Dayblind	adj	Suffering from day-blindness.
Day-blindness	n	A visual defect in which rhe eyes see badly, or not at all, during daylight, but well by artificail light.
Dayboat	n
Day-body	n	A person taken up by things of the day;
Daybook	n.	Diary. 2. a nautical logbook.
Daybreak	n	Dawn, daybreak, dayrawe, dayrim, first streak of day, first appearanace of light in the morning, daylight.
Daybreaking	adj	The first moments of day; dawnbreaking.
Daycare	n
Dayglow	n
Dayfall	n	Dawn, daybreak, dayrawe, dayrim, first streak of day, daylight.
Day god	n
Dayily	adv
Dayish	adj.	Diurnal, of or pertaining to day.
Day-length	adj	The length of the day applied to special times of the year.
Dayless	adj.	Devoid of day or night. 2. without redress, resource or result. 3. devoid of the light of day. 4. not divisible by day.
Daylike	adj
Daylight	n	The light of day. 2. time of day; daylight, 3. time when daylight appears. 4. (fig.) full light of knowledge, observation, openness, publicity. 5. daybreak. 6. (sl) the eyes.
Daylight	phr	"Let Daylight Into"
Daylight	phr	"To See Daylight" - to get the right answer.
Daylighted	adj
Daylight-like	adj
Daylight overdraft	n
Daylights	n
Day-lived	adj	Short duration; ephemeral. 2. impulsive, shallow things, objects. and desires.
Daylong	adj	Lasting all day; lasting all through the day; diurnal. 2. life-long.
Day-loving	n	Excessive fondness for the day; diophillic.
Dayman	n	One employed for the day, or for duty on a special day.
Daymare	n.	Opposite of nightmare.
Daymark	n
Daynighter	n
Day-off	n
Day-old	adj	Newly-born; diurnal.
Day out	n	A day's outing; a day excursion.
Dayrawe	n.	First streak of day or dawn; sometimes: dayrewe, dayrim
Dayrim	n.	Rim of light of the coming of day, dawn, daystreak, dyrise, peep of day.
Dayrise	n	Dawn, daystreak, dayrawe, dayrim, dayrise.
Dayroom	n
Days	n
Dayset	n	Sunset, the setting down of day (sun).
Dayshift	n
Dayshut	n	Dusk, sundown, sunset, close of day.
Dayside	n
Day-sight	n	A visual defect in which the eyes see clearly only in the day.
Daysman	n.	Umpire, arbitrator.
Dayspring	n.	Dawn, daybreak, early dawn, daystreak, dayrawe, dayrim, dayrise.
Daystar	n	The morning star. 2. the sun as the orb of the day.
Daystone	n	Stione found on the surface.
Daystreak	n	Dawn, daylight, dayspring, dayrise.
Day-sun	n	The Sun.
Daytale	n	Parallel to Chaucer's "night-tale" where the sense "reckoning' appears to pass into that of time, reckoned or counted.
Daytaler	n	A daylabourer or journeyman.
Daytime	n	The time of daylight.
Daytimer	n
Daywater	n	Surface water.
Daywear	n	Clothes to be worn during daytime.
Daywork	n	Day's work; work done during the daytime. 2. the amount of land that could be worked in a day.