Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cloy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cloy
v 1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: {surfeit}]
2: cause surfeit through excess, of something that was
initially pleasing: "Too much spicy food cloyed his
appetite" [syn: {pall}]


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