cloy : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cloy	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for cloy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cloy v supply or feed to surfeit Synonym(s): surfeit, cloy cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" Synonym(s): cloy, pall
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed. 2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden. 3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon. 4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson. 5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.