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Cloy definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOY, v.t.
1. Strictly, to fill; to glut. Hence, to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. And as the appetite when satisfied rejects additional food, hence, to fill to lothing; to surfeit.
Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
2. To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent.
3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing.
[In the two latter senses, I believe the word is little used, and not at all in America.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit, cloy]
2: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall]

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: Middle English, to hinder, lame, alteration of acloyen to harm, maim, modification of Anglo-French encloer to nail, prick a horse with a nail in shoeing, from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in + clavus nail Date: 1528 transitive verb to surfeit with an excess usually of something originally pleasing intransitive verb to cause surfeit Synonyms: see satiate

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (usu. foll. by with) satiate or sicken with an excess of sweetness, richness, etc. Derivatives: cloyingly adv. Etymology: ME f. obs. acloy f. AF acloyer, OF encloyer f. Rmc: cf. ENCLAVE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cloy Cloy (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed. 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden. 3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon. 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Satiate, glut, surfeit, pall, sate.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To steal. To cloy the clout; to steal the handkerchief. To cloy the lour; to steal money. Cant.

Moby Thesaurus

allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff, supersaturate, surfeit