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noun

Cog n. A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Cog n.

(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.

(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.

(Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.

Cog n. A small fishing boat.

verb

Cog v. t. (past & past part. cogged; pres. part. cogging)

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. (R.) "I'll... cog their hearts from them."

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." "To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice."

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.

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."

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"Cog" Quotes from Famous Books

... had about all of Barnes I could stand. A few more of his cheerin' observations, and I'd want to jam his head into his typewriter and then tread on the keys. Nor I wasn't goin' to be fed on any more cog-wheel ...

— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

... of the cylinder is a cog-wheel and a metal spring is attached to the board, by means of which the wheel is prevented ...

— Encyclopedia of Needlework • Therese de Dillmont

... remained with Beauty Stanton. She was a part of Benton. She was treading the loose board-walk of the great and vile construction camp. She might draw back from leer and touch, but none the less was she there, a piece of this dark, bold, obscure life. She was a cog in the wheel, a grain of dust in the whirlwind, a morsel of flesh and blood for the hungry maw of a wild and passing monster ...

— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey

... books and new subjects, or went on contentedly with the old. "The pleasure," he said, "was in the teaching, in making the thought clear, in tempting the boys to find out what they knew all the time; and the oftener I taught a subject the better I liked it; it was like a big cog-wheel, with a number of little cog-wheels turning with it. But the men who were always wanting to change their subjects were the men who thought of their own intellectual interest first, and very little of the small interests revolving upon it." The charm of Philip was the charm ...

— The Child of the Dawn • Arthur Christopher Benson

... owns these tenements. Why, his company gave me almost a hundred dollars, you know! I was lucky, for when Lizzie Sidel's man lost his hand in the cog wheels he went to law to sue the company, and three years afterward the case was thrown out of court and he had to pay the costs himself. But he was a picker-boss, and ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

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