v. t. [ OF. encloyer, encloer, F. enclouer, to drive in a nail, fr. L. in + clavus nail. ] To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See Cloy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cloyed 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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Who can ] cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To spike, as a cannon. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To stroke with a claw. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That does not cloy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Satiety. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fill beyond satiety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Surcloyed p. pr. & vb. n. Surcloying. ] To surfeit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]