cog

[Cog]

An engine needs each of its part to work. It has gears which have wheels. Each wheel has cogs, or tiny teeth that fit together, making the wheel turn, the engine run. Every cog is essential to that engine.

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

Noun
tooth on the rim of gear wheel

Verb
join pieces of wood with cogs

Verb
roll steel ingots


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

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

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

n.
A trick or deception; a falsehood.

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.

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.

n.
A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.

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

v. t.
To furnish with a cog or cogs.

n.
A small fishing boat.


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.
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.
To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice.

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.

Cog

Cog, n. A trick or deception; a falsehood. Wm. Watson.

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.

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.

Cog

Cog, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. Cock a boat.] A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

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

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

A trick or deception; a falsehood.

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.

To furnish with a cog or cogs.

A small fishing boat.

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Usage Examples

You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.

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