Cog (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cogged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cogging.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. Coax, v. t.]
1.
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
[R.]
I'll . . . cog their hearts from them.
Shak.
2.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.
[R.]
Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
J. Dennis
To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.
Swift.
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Cog (?), v. i.
To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
For guineas in other men's breeches,
Your gamesters will palm and will cog.
Swift.
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Cog, n.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Wm. Watson.
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Cog, n. [Cf. Sw. kugge a cog, or W. cocos the cogs of a wheel.]
1. Mech.
A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.
2. Carp. (a)
A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface.
(b)
A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
Knight.
3. Mining.
One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
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Cog, v. t.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Cogged breath sound Auscultation, a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration.
Quain.
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Cog, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. Cock a boat.]
A small fishing boat.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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