Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COF'FER, v.t.

To repeat or lay up in a coffer. – Bacon.

COF'FER-DAM, n.

A curb or close box of timber to be sunk to the bottom of rivers, or other water, and the water pumped out; used in laying the foundation of piers and abutments in deep water.

COF'FER-ED, pp.

Laid up in a coffer.

COF'FER-ER, n.

The cofferer of the king's household in Great Britain, a principal officer of the court, next under the Controller. He was also a white-staff officer, and a member of the privy council. He had the special charge and oversight of the other officers of the household. This office is now suppressed, and the business is transacted by the lord steward and paymaster of the household. – Cowel. Encyc.

COF'FER-ING, ppr.

Depositing in a coffer.

COF'FIN, n. [Fr. coffre. See Coffer. In French, coffin is a candle-basket; Gr. κοφινος; Norm. French, cofin, a basket; Sp. cofin; radically the same word as coffer.]

1. The chest or box in which a dead human body is buried, or deposited in a vault.
2. A mold of paste for a pie. – Johnson.
3. A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers. – Johnson.
4. In farriery, the hollow part of a horse's hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof. – Bailey. Farrier's Dict.
5. In printing, a wooden frame inclosing the stone on which the form is imposed.

COF'FIN, v.t.

To put in or inclose in a coffin. – Shak. Donne.

COF'FIN-ED, pp.

Inclosed in a coffin.

COF'FIN-LESS, a.

Having no coffin. – Wilson.

COF'FIN-MAK-ER, n.

One who makes, or whose office is to make coffins. – Tatler.

CO-FOUND'ER, n.

A joint founder. – Weever.

COG, n. [W. cocos, cogs of a wheel; Sw. kugge. Qu. Sp. coger, to catch, or Welsh cocw, a mass or lump, cog, a mass, a short piece of wool.]

The tooth of a wheel, by which it drives another wheel or body.

COG, or COG'GLE, n.

A boat; a fishing-boat. It is probably the W. cwc, Ir. coca. [See Cock.]

COG, v.i.

1. To deceive; to cheat; to lie. – Tusser. Shak.
2. To wheedle.

COG, v.t.¹ [W. coegiaw, to make void, to deceive, from coeg, empty, vain.]

1. To flatter; to wheedle; to seduce or draw from, by adulation or artifice. I'll cog their hearts from them. – Shak.
2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word to serve a purpose. – Stillingfleet. Tillotson. Dennis. To cog a die, to secure it so as to direct its fall; to falsify; to cheat in playing dice. – Dryden. Swift.

COG, v.t.²

To fix a cog; to furnish with cogs.

CO'GEN-CY, n. [L. cogens, from cogo; con and ago, to drive.]

Force; strength; power of compelling; literally, urgency, or driving. It is used chiefly of moral subjects, and in relation to force or pressure on the mind; as, the cogency of motives or arguments. – Locke.

CO-GE'NI-AL, a.

for Congenial. [Not used.] – Warton.

CO'GENT, a. [See Cogency.]

1. Forcible, in a physical sense; as, the cogent force of nature. – Prior.
2. Urgent; pressing on the mind; forcible; powerful; not easily resisted; as, a cogent reason, or argument. The harmony of the universe furnishes cogent proofs of a Deity. – Anon.

CO'GENT-LY, adv.

With urgent force; with powerful impulse; forcibly.

COG'GED, pp.

Flattered; deceived; cheated; thrust in deceitfully; falsified; furnished with cogs.

COG'GER, n.

A flatterer, or deceiver.

COG'GER-Y, n.

Trick; falsehood. – Watson.

COG'GING, n.

Cheat; deception; fallacy. – Beaum.

COG'GING, ppr.

Wheedling; deceiving; cheating; inserting deceitfully; fixing cogs.