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English Dictionary: COG/ by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cog \Cog\, n.
      A trick or deception; a falsehood. --Wm. Watson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cog \Cog\, n. [Cf. Sw. kugge a cog, or W. cocos the cogs of a
      wheel.]
      1. (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.
  
      2. (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. --Knight.
  
      3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left
            to support the roof of a mine.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cog \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. --Quain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cog \Cog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cogged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Cogging}.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to beceive, from
      coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. {Coax}, v. t.]
      1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or
            falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.]
  
                     I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. --Shak.
  
      2. 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.                                    --J. Dennis
  
                     To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to
                     cheat in playing dice.                        --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cog \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.                           --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cog \Cog\, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. {Cock} a
      boat.]
      A small fishing boat. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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