cog

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One of a series of teeth, as on the rim of a wheel or gear, whose engagement transmits successive motive force to a corresponding wheel or gear.
2. n. A cogwheel.
3. n. A subordinate member of an organization who performs necessary but usually minor or routine functions.
4. v. To load or manipulate (dice) fraudulently.
5. v. To cheat, especially at dice.
6. n. An instance of cheating; a swindle.
7. n. A tenon projecting from a wooden beam designed to fit into an opening in another beam to form a joint.
8. v. To join with tenons.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A small boat; a cockboat; a cock.
2. n. A trading-vessel; a galley; a ship in general.
3. n. A tooth, catch, or projection, usually one of a continuous series of such projections, on the periphery or the side of a wheel, or on any part of a machine, which, on receiving motion, engages with a corresponding tooth or projection on another wheel or other part of the machine, and imparts motion to it. See cut under cog-wheel.
4. n. A mill-wheel; a cog-wheel.
5. n. In mining, same as chock, 4.
6. n. The short handle of a scythe.
7. n. A kind of notch used in tailing joists or wall-plates.
8. To furnish with cogs.
9. To wedge up so as to render steady or prevent motion: as, to cog the leg of a table which stands unevenly; to cog a wheel of a carriage with a stone or a piece of wood.
10. To harrow.
11. n. A circular wooden vessel used for holding milk, broth, etc.
12. n. A measure used at some mills, containing the fourth part of a peck.
13. n. Intoxicating liquor.
14. To empty into a wooden vessel.
15. To flatter; wheedle; seduce or win by adulation or artifice.
16. To obtrude or thrust by falsehood or deception; foist; palm: usually with in or on.
17. To adapt (a die) for cheating, by loading it, so as to direct its fall: as, to play with cogged dice.
18. To wheedle; flatter; dissimulate.
19. To cheat, especially by means of loaded dice.
20. n. A trick or deception.
21. n. plural Loaded dice.
22. In metallurgy, to roll, especially to roll ingots into blooms.
23. An abbreviation of cognate.

Wiktionary

1. n. A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
2. n. A tooth on a gear
3. n. A gear; a cogwheel
4. n. A unimportant individual in a greater system.
5. n. A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
6. n. An act of cogging.
7. n. A spelling variant of the noun cogue.
8. v. to cheat at dice
9. v. to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
10. v. to fight, to war

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
2. v. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; ; to palm off.
3. v. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.
4. n. A trick or deception; a falsehood.
5. n. 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.
6. n. 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.
7. n. A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.
8. n. One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
9. v. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
10. n. A small fishing boat.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. roll steel ingots
2. n. a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
3. n. tooth on the rim of gear wheel
4. v. join pieces of wood with cogs