cloyed

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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.] [1913 Webster]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.— Speed.[1913 Webster]

2.To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [1913 Webster]

[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?— Shak.[1913 Webster]
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.To penetrate or pierce; to wound. [1913 Webster]

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
He never shod horse but he cloyed him.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

4.To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]

5.To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]

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