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verb

Cloy v. t. (past & past part. cloyed; pres. part. cloying)

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."

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?" "He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying."

To penetrate or pierce; to wound. "Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed." "He never shod horse but he cloyed him."

To spike, as a cannon. (Obs.)

To stroke with a claw. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cloying" Quotes from Famous Books

... observed in his cutting off the Letter Y, when it precedes a Vowel. [10] This, and some other Innovation in the Measure of his Verse, has varied his Numbers in such a manner, as makes them incapable of satiating the Ear, and cloying the Reader, which the same uniform Measure would certainly have done, and which the perpetual Returns of Rhime never fail to do in long Narrative Poems. I shall close these Reflections upon the Language of Paradise Lost, with observing that Milton ...

— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... the fruit. However, a dish of mangostine was more to my taste. It is one of the most exquisite of Indian fruits. It is mildly acid, and has an extreme delicacy of flavour without being luscious or cloying. In external appearance it resembles a ripe pomegranate, but is smaller and more completely globular. A rather tough rind, brown without, and of a deep crimson within, encloses three or four black seeds surrounded by a soft, semi-transparent, snow-white pulp, having occasionally ...

— James Braithwaite, the Supercargo - The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat • W.H.G. Kingston

... as the other had been ornate. It was Jo, the clean-minded and simple-hearted, in revolt against the cloying luxury with which he had surrounded himself. The bedroom, of all rooms in any house, reflects the personality of its occupant. True, the actual furniture was panelled, cupid-surmounted, and ridiculous. It had been the fruit of Jo's first orgy of the senses. But now it stood out in that stark ...

— Cheerful--By Request • Edna Ferber

... to see the inner economy of the butler's pantry, nor should the perhaps fragrant but cloying odors of the kitchen be wafted into the dining room whenever the swingdoor of the pantry opens or closes. The screen obviates both disadvantages. Another improvement has been the introduction of the serving table in place of the sideboard. It now conveniently holds all the ...

— Prepare and Serve a Meal and Interior Decoration • Lillian B. Lansdown

... an extraordinary process which is said to have been originally introduced to satisfy a fastidious taste that demanded a chocolate which readily melted in the mouth and yet had not the cloying effect which is produced by excess of cacao butter. In this process the chocolate is put in a vessel shaped something like a shell (hence called a conche), and a heavy roller is pushed to and fro in the chocolate. Although the conche ...

— Cocoa and Chocolate - Their History from Plantation to Consumer • Arthur W. Knapp

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