cog

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

cog
    n 1: a subordinate who performs an important but routine
         function; "he was a small cog in a large machine"
    2: tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: {cog}, {sprocket}]
    v 1: roll steel ingots
    2: join pieces of wood with cogs

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cog \Cog\ (k[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cogged} (k[o^]gd); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Cogging}.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to
   beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. {Coax}, v. t.]
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   1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or
      falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.]
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            I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. --Shak.
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   2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to
      cog in a word; to palm off. [R.]
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            Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted
            applauses, been cogged upon the town for
            masterpieces.                         --J. Dennis
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            To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to
            cheat in playing dice.                --Swift.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cog \Cog\, v. t.
   To furnish with a cog or cogs.
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   {Cogged breath sound} (Auscultation), a form of interrupted
      respiration, in which the interruptions are very even,
      three or four to each inspiration. --Quain.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cog \Cog\, v. i.
   To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to
   cajole.
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         For guineas in other men's breeches,
         Your gamesters will palm and will cog.   --Swift.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Cog \Cog\, n.
   A trick or deception; a falsehood. --Wm. Watson.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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   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.
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   3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left
      to support the roof of a mine.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

39 Moby Thesaurus words for "cog":
      comb, commonality, commonalty, crag, creature, fang, flunky,
      follower, harrow, hoi polloi, inferior, jag, junior, lightweight,
      lower class, lower orders, masses, pawn, peak, pecten, projection,
      rake, ratchet, sawtooth, second fiddle, secondary, snag, snaggle,
      spire, sprocket, spur, steeple, subaltern, subordinate,
      third stringer, tooth, underling, understrapper, yes-man