Dictionary entry

Cog

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

I'll... cog their hearts from them.

Shak.

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

Fustian tragedies... have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.

J. Dennis

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

Swift.