cog

name

1. Initialism of Church of God: numerous, mostly unrelated Christian denominations.

noun

1. Initialism of center of gravity.
2. Initialism of cluster of galaxies
3. Abbreviation of course over ground.

verb

Etymology: Uncertain. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.

1. To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat.
2. To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently.

   “1726, Jonathan Swift (debated), Molly Mog For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog.”

3. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

   “I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them.”

4. To plagiarize.

   “[…] his themes and exercises were in constant demand for what we called cogging and American students rather grandly called plagiarization. Shakespeare and Eliot plagiarized; we grimly cogged in the early morning-oh, […]”

   “Coming to journalism, how many of us have not been guilty at some stage of 'cogging' from other articles, […]”

5. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.

   “to cog in a word”

   “October 3, 1718, John Dennis, letter to S. T. , Esq; On the Deceitfulness of Rumour Fustian tragedies […] have […] been cogg'd upon the town for Master-pieces.”