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.]
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The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by
sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed.
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2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
to loathing; to surfeit.
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[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak.
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He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
satisfying. --Dryden.
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3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
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Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
--Spenser.
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He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon.
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4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson.
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5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cloy
v 1: supply or feed to surfeit [syn: surfeit]
2: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too
much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: pall]
WordNet (r) 2.0
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloy":
allay, cram, engorge, fill, fill up, glut, gorge, jade, overdose,
overfeed, overfill, overgorge, oversaturate, overstuff, pall, sate,
satiate, satisfy, saturate, slake, stall, stodge, stuff,
supersaturate, surfeit
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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