Part 2078

<i>Nares.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.</def>

<cs><col>Coffin bone</col>, <cd>the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.</cd> -- <col>Coffin joint</col>, <cd>the joint next above the coffin bone.</cd></cs>

<h1>Coffin</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fin</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Coffined</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Coffining</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.</def>

<blockquote>Would'st thou have laughed, had I come <b>coffined</b> home? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Devotion is not <b>coffined</b> in a cell. <i>John Hall (1646).</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coffinless</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fin*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no coffin.</def>

<h1>Coffle</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cof"fle</hw> <tt>(?; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Ar. <ets>kafala</ets> caravan.]</ety> <def>A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.</def>

<h1>Cog</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cog</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cogged</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Cogging</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. W. <ets>coegio</ets> to make void, to beceive, from <ets>coeg</ets> empty, vain, foolish. Cf. <er>Coax</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>I'll . . . <b>cog</b> their hearts from them. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; <as>as, to <ex>cog</ex> in a word</as>; to palm off.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been <b>cogged</b> upon the town for masterpieces. <i>J. Dennis</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cog</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cog</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.</def>

<blockquote>For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will <b>cog</b>. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cog</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cog</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A trick or deception; a falsehood.</def>

<i>Wm. Watson.</i>

<h1>Cog</h1> <Xpage=273>

<hw>Cog</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Sw. <ets>kugge</ets> a cog, or W. <ets>cocos</ets> the cogs of a wheel.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>