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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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