For guineas in other men's breeches,
Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis [ 1913 Webster ]

To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine. [ 1913 Webster ]

An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cogent force of nature. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted. [ 1913 Webster ]

No better nor more cogent reason. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Proofs of the most cogent description. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tongue whose strains were cogent as commands,
Revered at home, and felt in foreign lands. Cowper.

Syn. -- Forcible; powerful; potent; urgent; strong; persuasive; convincing; conclusive; influential. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . is our witness, how we both day and night, revolving in our minds, did cogitate nothing more than how to satisfy the parts of a good pastor. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Given to thought or contemplation. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a number of things allied in origin or nature; as, certain letters are cognates. [ 1913 Webster ]

As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will not be myself nor have cognation
Of what I feel: I am all patience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is known. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cognizable both in the ecclesiastical and secular courts. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within the cognizance and lying under the control of their divine Governor. Bp. Hurd [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Recollection; recognition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who, soon as on that knight his eye did glance,
Eftsoones of him had perfect cognizance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) Jurisdiction, or the power given by law to hear and decide controversies. (b) The hearing a matter judicially. (c) An acknowledgment of a fine of lands and tenements or confession of a thing done. [ Eng. ] (d) A form of defense in the action of replevin, by which the defendant insists that the goods were lawfully taken, as a distress, by defendant, acting as servant for another. [ Eng. ] Cowell. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The distinguishing mark worn by an armed knight, usually upon the helmet, and by his retainers and followers: Hence, in general, a badge worn by a retainer or dependent, to indicate the person or party to which he belonged; a token by which a thing may be known. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wearing the liveries and cognizance of their master. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

This pale and angry rose,
As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eng. Law) A surname. [ 1913 Webster ]