cog

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

COG, verb transitive 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, verb intransitive 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 transitive To fix a cog; to furnish with cogs.
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