COAT'INGCOAX'ED
COAX, v.t. [W. cocru, to fondle, to cocker; cocyr, a coaxing, indulgence; Sp. cocar, to make wry faces, to coax.]
To wheedle; to flatter; to soothe, appease or persuade by flattery and fondling. [A low word.] – L'Estrange.
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