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Webster 1913 Edition


Cog

Cog

(kŏg)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Cogged
(kŏgd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Cogging
.]
[Cf. W.
coegio
to make void, to beceive, from
coeg
empty, vain, foolish. Cf.
Coax
,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Cog

,
Verb.
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.

Cog

,
Noun.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
Wm. Watson.

Cog

,
Noun.
[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.

Cog

,
Verb.
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.

Cog

,
Noun.
[OE.
cogge
; cf. D.
kog
, Icel.
kuggr
Cf.
Cock
a boat.]
A small fishing boat.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Webster 1828 Edition


Cog

COG

, v.t.
1.
To flatter; to wheedle; to seduce or draw from, by adulation or artifice.
2.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word to serve a purpose.
To cog a die, to secure it so as to direct its fall; to falsify; to cheat in playing dice.

COG

, v.i.
1.
To deceive; to cheat; to lie.
2.
To wheedle.

COG

,
Noun.
The tooth of a wheel, by which it drives another wheel or body.

COG

,
Verb.
T.
To fix a cog; to furnish with cogs.