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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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Etymology of 'Cloying'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... stirred into the cask; in this way, those who are fond of the peach brandy flavor, may drink it without becoming subject to the pernicious consequences that arise from the constant use of peach brandy. Peach brandy, unless cleansed of its gross and cloying properties, or is suffered to acquire some years of age, has a cloying effect on the stomach, which it vitiates, by destroying the effect of the salival and gastric juices, which have an effect on aliment, similar to that of yeast on bread, and by its singular properties prevents ...

— The Practical Distiller • Samuel McHarry

... that he must have risen to eminence upon the basis of discovery, yet it is no slight proof how little the struggles of the world affect superior intellects, that he has all along turned aside, with a never cloying avidity, to the pursuits of mind—to science, ...

— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various

... 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 is considered ...

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

... which Moses and the Bube and the rest of the company (including the questioner) invariably replied in corresponding sing-song: "Slaves have we been in Egypt," proceeding to recount at great length, stopping for refreshment in the middle, the never-cloying tale of the great deliverance, with irrelevant digressions concerning Haman and Daniel and the wise men of Bona Berak, the whole of this most ancient of the world's extant domestic rituals terminating with an allegorical ballad like ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... the thought help us to the conviction of the relative insignificance of all that can change. That will not spoil nor shade any real joy; rather it will add to it poignancy that prevents it from cloying or from becoming the enemy of our souls. But the thought will wondrously lighten the burden that we have to carry, and the tasks which we have to perform. 'But for a moment,' makes all light. There was an old rabbi, ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

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