Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cog"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cog \Cog\, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. {Cock} a
boat.]
A small fishing boat. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cog \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cog \Cog\, n.
A trick or deception; a falsehood. --Wm. Watson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cog \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cog \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cog \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cog
n : tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: {sprocket}]
v 1: roll steel ingots
2: join pieces of wood with cogs
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