accoy
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ac·coy′ (…), transitive verb
Origin: OF. acoyer; ac-, for L. ad. See Coy.
1. To render quiet; to soothe. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
2. To subdue; to tame; to daunt. obsolete
Then is your careless courage accoyed.— Edmund Spenser
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
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