chervelle (A.S.) 134, _chervil, a plant which was eaten as a pot-herb (cerefolium)_ chese (A.S.) 296, _to choose_ cheeste, cheste (A.S.) 33, 169, 253, _dissension, strife, debate_ cheve (A.N.) 375, _to compass a thing, to succeed, or bring to an end, to obtain, adopt_. _pres. s._ cheveth, 287. _pret. pl._ cheveden, 3, chewe, 381, 439. lat hem chewe as thei chosen, _let them take as they choose_ chewen (A.N.) 26, 490, _to eschewe_ chibolle (A.N.) 134, _a kind of leek_, called in French _ciboule_ chicke, _pl._ chicknes, 67 (A.S.) _a chicken_ chevysaunce (A.N.) 92, 426, _an agreement for borrowing money_ chiden (A.S.) _to chide_ child (A.S.) _a child_. _gen. pl._ childrene, 72 chymenee (A.N.) 179, _a fire-place_ chirie-tyme, 86, _cherry-time_ chyvelen (A.S. ?) 88, _to become shrivelled_ +chol (A.S.) 464, _the jowl_ kidde, _see_ couthen kirk (A.S.) _a church_ kirtel (A.S.) _a kirtle, frock_ kissen (A.S.) 395, _to kiss_. _pret. s._ kiste, 394 kith, kyth (A.S.) 55, 324, 400, _relationship, family connection_. to kith and to kyn, 268, _to family connection and kindred_ kitone (A.N.) _kitten, young cat_ clawe (A.S.) 274, _to brush, to stroke_ clene (A.S.) _pure, clean_. clenner, 410, purer. clennesse, _purity, cleanness_ clepen, clepe (A.S.) _to call_. _pret._ cleped, 436. _part. pas._ cleped, 174 clergie (A.N.) _science, clergy_ clerk (A.N.) _pl._ clerkes, _gen. pl._ clerkene, 72, _a scholar_ cler-matyn (A.N.) 135, _a kind of fine bread_ cleven (A.S.) _to split, cleave_ (intransitive). _pret. s._ cleef, 373 cleymen (A.N.) 389, _to claim_. _pret. s._ cleymede, 430 cliket (A.N.) 114, _a kind of latch key_. cliketten, 114, _to fasten with a cliket_. Tyrwhit explains the word simply as meaning a key--but in Piers Ploughman it is put so in immediate apposition with the word key, that it must have differed from it. In Chaucer, C. T. 9990, et seq. it appears to be the key of a garden gate:-- This freissche May, that I spake of so yore, In warm wex hath emprynted the _cliket_ That January bar of the smale wiket, By which into his gardyn ofte he went; And Damyan, that knew al hir entent, The _cliket_ counterfeted prively. In a document of the date 1416, quoted by Ducange, v. _Cliquetus_, it is ordered that, Refectorarius semper teneat hostium refectorii clausum _cum cliqueto_ clyngen (A.S.) 276, _to shrink, wither, pine_. Reliq. Antiquæ, vol. ii, p. 210:-- When eld me wol aweld, mi wele is awai; Eld wol keld, and _cling_ so the clai. clippe (A.S.) 359, 394, _to embrace, enfold_ clips (A.N. ?) 377, _an eclipse_ clyven (A.S.) 367, _to cleave, stick to_ clokken (A.N.) 45, _to limp or hobble, to walk lamely_ clomsen (A.N.) 276, _to shrink or contract_. A verb used often in the Wycliffite Bible. In Prompt. Parv. aclomsid. clooth (A.S.) _cloth_ clouch (A.S.) _pl._ clouches, _a clutch_ clouten (A.S.) _to patch, mend_. _part. past_, y-clouted, 120 clucche (A.S.) 359, _to clutch, hold_