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verb

Cloy v. t. (past & past part. cloyed; pres. part. cloying)

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."

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?" "He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying."

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. "Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed." "He never shod horse but he cloyed him."

To spike, as a cannon. (Obs.)

To stroke with a claw. (Obs.)

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"Cloy" Quotes from Famous Books

... in first, and the others followed. Then the children discovered that Lord Cloy was the frosted man and Princess Sakareen was the sugar lady who had told ...

— Twinkle and Chubbins - Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland • L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

... life, hath sought I 1 To outlive the appointed span, Shall be arraigned before my thought For an infatuate man. Since the added years entail Much that is bitter,—joy Flies out of ken, desire doth fail, The longed-for moments cloy. But when the troublous life, Be it less or more, is past, With power to end the strife Comes rescuing Death at last. Lo! the dark bridegroom waits! No festal choir Shall grace his destined hour, no dance, ...

— The Seven Plays in English Verse • Sophocles

... a window where It may receive the sun and air, But some with self the window cloy, And shut out ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... all my heart, Lady, lady, My faith and country claim a part, My sweet lady; But yet I 'll pledge thee word of mine That all the rest is truly thine;— The raving passion of a boy, Warm though it be, will quickly cloy— Confide thou rather in the man Who vows to love thee all he can, My ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI - The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century • Various

... She dropped a tear more rare than pearl, Then sucked their fruit globes fair or red: Sweeter than honey from the rock, Stronger than man-rejoicing wine, 130 Clearer than water flowed that juice; She never tasted such before, How should it cloy with length of use? She sucked and sucked and sucked the more Fruits which that unknown orchard bore; She sucked until her lips were sore; Then flung the emptied rinds away But gathered up one kernel stone, And knew not was it night or day As ...

— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

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