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Webster 1913 Edition


Accloy

Ac-cloy′

(ăk-kloi′)
,
Verb.
T.
[OF.
encloyer
,
encloer
, F.
enclouer
, to drive in a nail, fr. L.
in
+
clavus
nail.]
To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See
Cloy
.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition


Accloy

ACCLOY'

, To fill; to stuff; to fill to satiety. [Not used.] [See Clay.]

Definition 2024


accloy

accloy

English

Verb

accloy (third-person singular simple present accloys, present participle accloying, simple past and past participle accloyed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To clog, clog up; to block.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.
  4. (transitive, archaic) To be disgusting to.