Cloy

Definition of Cloy

Pronunciation: kloi

v. t.	1.	To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [imp. & p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying.] 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.
	5.	To stroke with a claw.

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