List of Old English Words in the OED/DI

Old English	sp	English
Die	vb	Late OE borrowing.
Die	phr	"Die Away" - become weaker or faint to the point of extinction.
Die	phr	"Die Back" - (of a plant): decay from the tip to the root.
Die	phr	"Die Down" - become less loud or strong.
Die	phr	"Die Hard" - die reluctantly, not without a struggle.
Die	phr	"Die For" -extremely good or desirable, as chocolate.
Die	phr	"Die In Harness" - die while still going about one's daily business.
Die	phr	"Die in the Ditch" - die alone in some forsaken place.
Die	phr	"Die Laughing" - be overcame by mirth or laughter till the point of exhaustion.
Die	phr	"Die Like Flies" - die in very large numbers.
Die	phr	"Die the Death" - condemned to death; be killed.
Die	phr	"Never say Die" - keep up one's courage, not give in.
Die-away	adj	Having a languishing or affectedly feeble manner.
Die-back	n	Progressive dying back of a shrub or tree-shoot owing to diseasee or unfavorable.
Die-hard	n	A conservative or stubbornperson.
Dig	vb	Oxford English dictionary: Middle English: perhaps from Old English dīc ‘ditch’ - to break and turn over soil. (Not an Anglish word: included for information only: not anglish).
Dighel	adj.	Secret, obscure, hence dighelness: secrecy
Dight	n	Composition. 2. making, framing, construction; preparation. 3. dealing, direction, order. 2. dress, adornment, clothing.
Dight	vb.	To dictate, compose in language, present. 2. manage, direct, dictate, govern, rule, appoint, ordain, order. 3. construct, put together, frame, make. 4. array, dress, clothe, deck, adorn, put on armour. 5. maltreat, abuse, misuse. 6. to have to do with sexually. 7. place, put, dispose of. 9. to put in a specific condition or state: put to death, execute, slay, kill, winnow. 8. to dispose (of), place, put, remove. 9. to cause, bring about, perform, do, deal with, make ready, progress. 10. to equip, fit-out, furnish. 11. to make ready, get ready, to make oneself ready. 12. to prepare a meal, mix medicine or a potion. 13. repair, put in order, make right. 14. polish, wipe, rub, in order to make clean or dry, cleanse so as to fix up. 15. to cultivate, till, or attend to crops.
Dight	phr	"Dight to Death" - put to death, execute, slay, kill.
Dighter	n.	Composer, author, ruler, preparer, ruler, director. 2. winnower (machine).
Dighting	n	Repairing, putting in order. 2. preparing, 3. arraying, dressing, 4. proposing. 5. winnowing. 6. wiping.
Dightly	adv.	In a well equipped manner.
Dike	n.	Ditch, trench, pit. 2. a toilet, water-closet, or urinal, etc. 3. a small pond or pool. 4. a hollow dug in the ground; cave, den. 5. ridge, embarkment, barrier, obstacle, long mound, a dam thrown up to resist the sea or to prevent low-lying land from being flooded by the sea, rivers, or streams. 6. a jetty, pier, a (raised) causeway along or into the water. 7. wall, a low wall, or fence of turf or stone serving as a division or enclosure. 7. hedge, a fence (barrier) of any kind.
Dike	vb	To make a dight; excavate, dig out a dyke. 2. provide with a dyke. 4. surround with a dyke/dike, trench, ditch, etc. to enclose with an earthen or stone wall. to defend land with a dike or embankment against the sea. to entrench. to clean out, scour.
Diker	n	One who build or constructs dikes.
Dike-reeve	n	An officer appointed to take charge of the drains, sluices and seabank of a fen or marsh district in England.
Dilghe	vb.	To destroy, erase, blot out, also fig.
Dill	n	Antheum graveolens. 2. cucumber. 3. fool, dolt.
Dim	adj.	Of light-somewhat dark. 2. want of clearness, brightness, or distinctness. 3. dullness of vision or perception, state of being dim-sighted.
Dimble	n	See 'dimple.'
Dim-brooding	adj	"The whole future is there and destiny dim-brooding over it, in the hearts and unshaped thoughts of these men; it lies illegible, inevitable' (Thomas Carlyle.
Dim-eyed	adj	"The public is a very dim-eyed beast'. 2. having limited vision. 3. short-sighted, inattentive or lacking alertness.
Dim-headed	adj	Dull-witted, foolish, stupid.
Dim-lit	adj	"A dim-lit alley' - poorly, faintly lit.
Dimly	adv	In a dim manner; in or with dim light, obscurely, somewhat darkly, faintly, indistinctly.
Dimmed	adj	Rendered or made dim.
Dimmedness	n	State or quality of being dimmed.
Dimmer	vb	To appear dim, faintly or indistinctly
Dimming	n	The process of being dimmed or wanting brightness or clearness; obscuring.
Dimmish	adj	Rather or somewhat dim.
Dimness	n	State or quality of being dim.
Dimmy	adj	Having dimness; more or less dim.
Dimple	n	OE. a small depression or indentation. 2. a small natural depressioonon the skin, esp. on the face or the corner of the mouth.
Dim-wit	n	A slow, stupid or witless person; one not mentally alert.
Dim-witted	adj	Stupid, dull, lacking mental alertness, slow.
Dim-wittedly	adv	In a stupid, dull way or manner.
Dim-wittedness	n	The quality of being dim-witted; slow and dull.
Din	n	Sound, a loud noise, particularly a continued confusion or resonant sound, which stuns or causes distress the ear. 2. the subject of a sounding or ringing in the ears.
Din	vb	To sound, ring with sound, resound. 2. of person: to make a loud noise, din, to roar. 3. to assail with din or worrying vociferation. 4. to make to resound, to utter over and over so as to deafen or weary. 5. to give forth deafening or distressing noise; to repeat over and over.
Din	phr	"Din in Somebody's Ears" - sound, echo , in somebody's ears.
Din	phr	'Din Into" - repeatedly urge somebody to remember or be guided by; drm into, into.
Ding	n	Very minor damage, a small dent or chip.  2. (colloquial) a rejection. 3. very minor damage.
Ding	vb	To sound, as a bell; to ring; to clang. 2. to hit or strike. 3. to dash; to throw violently. 4. to inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking.  5. to fire or reject. 6. to deduct, as points, from another, in the manner of a penalty; to penalize.
Dinsome	adj.	Full of din, noisy
Dint	n.	Stroke or blow,esp. one given by a weapon, the dealing of blows, hence force of attack or impact, (lit or fig): violence, force; now only by dint of. 2. stroke of thunder. 3. the dealing of blows; hence, force of attack, assault or impact (lit. & fg.) 4. violence, force, attack, 5. impression mark or impression made by blow or by pressure in a hard or plastic surface; an indentation.
Dint	vb	To strike, beat, knock. 2. to make a dint or impression in something. 3. to mark or impress with a dint; to make dint in; to impress.
Dint	phr	"By Dint Of" - by force of, by means of, with implication of vigour or persistence in the application of the means.
Dint	phr	"By Dint of Sword" - by attack with a weapon (of war); by force of arms.
Dint	phr	"Under/Within the Dint" - exposed to or within the reach or range of assault or attack.
Dintless	adj	Without an impression mark.
Dip	n	The act of dipping. 2. a plunge or brief immersion in water or an other liquid. 3, the act of dipping up liquid; eg. ink with a pen; the instance taken in such an act. 4. a going down out of sight or below the horizon. 5. an unstressed element in a line of alliteration. 6. a receptacle from which a prize may be obtained by dipping. 7. depth or amount of submergence. 8. a depth of distance between between a particular level. 9. depth of a vessel. 10. downward inclination of a magnetic needle at a particular place. 11. downward slope of the surface of something. 12. a hollow or depression to which the surrounding high ground dips or sinks. 13. a sweet sauce for puddings; a savory mixture into which biscuits are dipped. 14. a pickpocket and the act of dipping.
Dip	vb	To put down into or let down temporarily and partially in or into liquid. 2. to immerse, plunge. 3. to immerse in various solutions, to dye, imbue. 4. to dip sheep or bath sheep in a liquid for the purpose of killing infestation and cleanses their skin. 5. to suffuse with moisture; to impregnate by, or as if by, immersion. 6. to dip toast in tea or the like. 7. to pick pockets by 'dipping' your hand in. 8. to lower or raise a flag in naval salute. 9. to lower the beams of a headlights of a vehicles. 10. to immerse, involve, implicate in an affair (esp. of an undesirable kind.) 11. to involve in debt or pecuniary liabilities; to mortgage an estate; to pawn. 12. to plunge down a little into water or other liquid and quickly emerge. 13. to dip deeply into one's means. 14. fig. to withdraw or expend a considerable sum; to trench upon one's means. 15. to sink or drop down through a small space, or below a particular level, as dipping water; to go down, sink, set. 16. to move the body downwards in obeisance, to curtsy, bob. 17. to extend a little way downwards below the surface; to sink. 18, to have a downwards inclination; to incline or slope downwards. 19. to be inclined to the horizon; esp. of a magnetic needle. 20. to dip (seek information)into a study or subject. 21. to enter slightly into a subject without being absorbed or 'buried' in it; said especially of cursory reading or skimming short passages here and there in a book. 22. to skim, or read superficially and slightly.
Dip	phr	"At the Dip" - the lowering of a sail of a ship.
Dip	phr	"Dip a Toe Into" - to do something carefully because you are not sure it will work or not.
Dip	phr	"Dip Into" - to reach into a liquid; to reach into a substance, usually to remove some of the substance.
Dip	phr	"Dip Out (on)" - to decide not to take part in something. 2. to fail a test or course in school.
Dip	phr	"Dip Headlights" - of the beams of headlights of a vehicle: lowered or dimmed.
Dip	phr	"Dip Something Into" - to put something (ladle) into a substance in order to take some of it.
Dipped	adj	Immersed (briefly or partially) in a liquids. 2. baptized. 3. extend or curved below the surface or level. 4. involved in debt, mortgaged.
Dipper	n	One who dips in various senses of the verb; specifically one who immerses something in a fluid. 2. one who peruses a book, various subjects cursorily. 3. a member of various Baptist groups who practise total immersion of the body in baptism. 4. a dip, pickpocket. 5. a utensil, such as a ladle, used for dipping up water. 6. a receptacle for oil, varnish, etc. fastened to a pallet.
Dipper	n	The Plough." or Charles' Wain"
Dipperful	adj	As much as fills a dipper.
Dipping	n	The action of the verb 'to dip" 2. a liquid preparation in which things are dipped for any purpose. 2. a wash for sheep and other animals. 3. a dubbing for leather.
Dipping needle	n	A magnetic needle suspended at its centre of gravity and moving in a vertical plane; so as to indicate on a graduated circle the magnetic dip or inclination.
Dippy	adj	Inclined to dip or move downwards. 2. erratic of behavior.
Dipside	n	The side on which the dip or declivity is.
Dipstick	n	A rod for measuring the depth of liquids. 2. fool, simpleton, dolt, dullard.
Dirt	n	By metathesis < drit < ON drita, excrement, akin to OE dritan, to excrete.
Dirty	adj
Dirty	phr	"Dirty Old Man" - a lascivious or lewd older man.
Dirty	phr	"Dirty Words" - an oath or obscenity.
Dirty-dog	n	Somebody who has behaved badly, meanly, selfishly.
Dirty pig	n	One who is 9offensively ) dirty in his or her personal or domestic habits; or who is offensively coarse or obscene.
Dirty work	n	Necessary work of a dirty, unpleasant or laborious kind. 2. criminal activities or behavoir.
Dish	n	A piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food. 2. a particular item of prepared food. 3. the quantity that a dish will hold. 4. an activity that you like or at which you are superior 5. a directional antenna made up of a parabolic reflector for microwave or radio frequency radiation. 6. a very attractive or seductive looking woman
Dish	vb	To make concave; shape like a dish. 2. to provide (usually but not necessarily food).
Dish	phr	"Dish It Out" - inflict punishment, cause pain or distress. 2. hand punishment out.
Dish	phr	"Dish Out" - to put food on a plate ready for eating. 2. (lit and fig.) to distribute or deliver something. 3. to treat another harshly. 4. to hollow out, as a gutter.
Dish	phr	"Dish Up" - to serve a meal; put on a plate. 2. to prepare or present, esp. in an attractive manner.
Dish	phr	"Have a Hand in the Dish" - to meddle, interfere.
Dish	phr	"Have Food in the Dish" - to gain footing, have a share.
Dish	phr	"One's Dish" - exactly suited to one's taste, requirements, abilities, (one's cup of tea).
Dish	phr	"Throw Something in One's Dish" - to taunt or reproach someone.
Dish bitch	n	Slang term for a woman who washes dishes in a restaurant. 2. a female journalist who reports using 'dish' technology.
Dishboard	n	A dresser for dishes.
Dish cloth	n	A cloth used in the kitchen for wiping and drying dishes.
Dished	adj	Put into a dish. 2. shaped like a dish. 3. slightly concave.
Dishful	adj	The contents of a dish; as much as a dish can hold.
Dish-head	n	An epithet for monks.
Dishily	adv	In a sensational, gossipy, tell-all manner, as 'recounts dishily the .."
Dishing	n	Forming a concave or dish-like surface.
Dishiness	n	The quality or state of being sexually attractive, good-looking. 2. containing gossip or information about a well-known person's private life characterized by, full of, or given to gossip or disclosure.
Dishlike	adj	Resembling a dish; concave.
Dish-monger	n	One who deals in, or has much to do, with dishes (of food.)
Dishpan	n	A large container for washing dishes, etc.
Dishpan hands	n	Hands inflamed or sore through the frequently washing dishes.
Dish stand	n	A device for supporting and holding dishes.
Dish-trough	n	A sink for washing dishes.
Dishware	n	Plates, bowls, cups etc. 2. tableware (as china) used in serving food.
Dishwasher	n	A machine that washes dishes. 2. a person who washes dishes for a living.
Dishwashing	n	The act or action of washing dishwater.
Dishwater	n	The greasy water in which dishes have been washed.
Dishwater-blond	n	Of a dark-blond colour bordering on a light brown.
Dishwaterish	adj	Somewhat like dishwater.
Dishwatery	adj	Resembling dishwater: greasy.
Dishy	adj	Attractive (of a woman.)
Distaff	n	A stick or spindle into which wool or flax is wound for spinning. 2. of or concerning women.
Distaff-business	n	A type of work or occupation normally done by women; hence, symbolic, for the female sex. 2. female authority or dominion; also the female branch of the family, the spindle side of the family, as opposed to the 'spear-side' (male side.) Nb. OE. distaef, supposed to be for 'dis' or dise-staef, the second element the sb. 'staff' ; dis or dise is apparently from LG. 'diesse' - a bunch of flax on a distaff and cionnected with 'dize' ; 'dizen' to put tow on a distaff.
Distaff-side	n	The female side branch of a house or family.
Dit	n	A small lump, clot, plug, dot.
Dit	vb	To stop up, close up, shut (an opening); to fill up a hole or gap. 2. to stop or obstruct the course of a way.
Ditch	n	OE decan, dechen, deech: smear, plaster, daub.
Ditch	n	A watercourse, channel, trench, man-made or those of natural formation. 2. the sea, English Channel, or the North sea; the Tasman Sea between between Australia and New Zealand, known as 'The Ditch".
Ditch	vb	To dig or construct a ditch. 2. to dredge or repair a ditch. 3. lit. & fig. to defeat, frustrate, abandon, discarded, jilt. 4. to throw in a ditch.
Ditch	vb	Deech (OE : decan, deche): to smear, daub, plaster, impregnate, esp. with dirt, which hardens and becomes ingrained.
Ditch	phr	"Fall or Lead into the Last Ditch" - the last line of defence.
Ditch	phr	"Driven to the Last Ditch" - forced back to the last extrmities.
Ditch	phr	"Ditch In" - to enclose by means of a ditch.
Ditch	phr	"Ditch Out" - shut out by means of a ditch.
Ditch	phr	"Ditch Up" - surrounded by a ditch for the purpose of defence.
Ditch-bottom	n	The bottom of a ditch. 2. the lowest and usually most unfavorable part of something, the pits. 2. (loosely) a nadir.
Ditched	adj	Furnished or provided with a ditch. 2. abandoned, discarded, dumped.
Ditcher	n	One who makes or builds ditches. 2. a machine used to make ditches.
Ditching	n	The action of ditching; te making and repairing of ditches. 2. of an aircraft: ditching or putting the aircraft into the sea or a waterways. 3. abandonment, discarding.
Ditchlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a ditch.
Ditchwater	n	Stale stagnant or foul water which collects in a ditch.
Ditchwater	phr	"As Dull as Ditch water" - very dull, plain, uninspiring.
Ditchwaterly	adv	As dishwater: greasy.
Dishwatery	adj	Of or pertaining to dishwater; somewhat like dishwater.
Ditch-world	n	A dirty, vile, worthless world.
Ditchy	adj	Like or resembling a ditch. 2. of the nature of a ditch. 3. abounding in ditchwater or deep furrows.
Dive	vb	Early OE. dip, submerge; to plunge a person or thing into liquid. 2. to enter deeply, or plunge into a matter, penetrate. 3. to plunge the hand into something. 4. to penetrate or traverse by diving. 5. to pick pockets.
Dive	n	The act of diving, a darting plunge into or through water. 2. a precipitous descent. 3. submergence, submersion of a submarine. 4. a sudden dart into a place or across a space, sep. so as to disappear. 5. an illegal drinking den; disreputable place or resort, often in a cellar, basement or somewhat concealed place, into which a frequenter may 'dive' without observation.
Dive	phr	"Dive In" - a start of a new endeavor enthusiastically and wholeheartedly.
Diver	n	Someone who dives into water. 2. someone who performs work underwater. 3. someone who dives for fishing or a recreational purpose.
Divewear	n	Items of clothing appropriate for diving.
Divey	adj	Having the character of a dive, a disreputable bar or seedy nightclub.
Diving	n	A headlong plunge into water. 2. an athletic competition that involves diving into water.
Diving bell	n	A chamber, sustained by an air supply, which allows divers to work under water.
Diving bell spider	n	Argyroneta aquatics - one of the few species of spiders known to live almost entirely under water.
Diving board	n	A spring board used for diving in water. 2. a diving platform.
Diving-dress	n	A weighted and hermetically sealed suit supplied with air, worn by underwater divers.
Diving-stone	n	A kind of jasper.
Dizen	n	Found only from 1530, but evidently belonging to 'dis'; 'diesse': the bunch of flax on the distaff. 2. to dress or attire a distaff with flax, etc. for spinning. 3. to dress (or in clothes); esp. to attire, array with finery. 4. to deck out, adorn, (later used with contempt).
Dizened	adj	Dressed or attired (a distaff with flax). 2. attired, adorned, decked out, arrayed with finery.
Dizzied	adj	Giddy, reeling, unsteady, confused, stupid.
Dizzily	adv	In a giddy or dizzy manner.
Dizziness	n	The state or condition of being dizzy or giddy.
Dizzying	adj	Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically)dizzy, confused, as of great speed or height.
Dizzingly	adv	In a dizzying manner, amazingly.
Dizzy	vb	To act foolishly or with stupidity. 2. to act giddy or dizzy, 3. to cause to reel. 4. to produce a swinging sensation in; or to turn the head of. 5. to render unsteady in brain or mind; to be wild or confused mentally.
Dizzy	adj	OE: dysig: foolish, stupid; a foolish man, fool. 2. having a sensation of whirling or vertigo in the head, with proneness to fall giddy. 3. mentally unsteady or in a whirl; lacking moral stability, startling, astonishing, vivid. 4. accompanied with or producing giddiness. 5. fig. whirling with a mad rapidity. 6. dull of hearing.
Dizzy	phr	"Reach /Rise to Dizzy Heights" - an extremely high and exalted level of something, as vocation, office, wealth.
Dizzy-eyed	adj	Used to mean something hopefully in love.
Dizzy-headed	adj	Giddy, reeling, unsteady, confused.