CLOY, v.t. 1. Strictly, to fill; to glut. Hence, to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. And as the appetite when satisfied rejects additional food, hence, to fill to lothing; to surfeit.Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetiteBy bare imagination of a feast?2. To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent.3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing.[In the two latter senses, I believe the word is little used, and not at all in America.]
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