English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

Result for Cog

Cog (v. t.)

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

Cog (v. t.)

To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off.

Cog (v. i.)

To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.

Cog (n.)

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

Cog (n.)

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.

Cog (n.)

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.

Cog (n.)

A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.

Cog (n.)

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

Cog (v. t.)

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

Cog (n.)

A small fishing boat.