Cloy (kloi), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Cloyed (kloid); p. pr. & vb.
n. Cloying.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F.
clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L.
clavus nail. Cf. 3d Clove.] 1.
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the
harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.
Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite;
to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of
appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Shak.
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
satisfying.
Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to
wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly
cloyed.
Spenser.
He never shod horse but he cloyed him.
Bacon.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.]
Johnson.
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.]
Shak.