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2 definitions found 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: cloying adj : overly sweet [syn: {saccharine}, {syrupy}, {treacly}]
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