[f. COG v.3 + -ED.]
1. Corruptly influenced, as the throw of dice is by cogging.
1781. Westm. Mag., IX. 604. A game more desperate, call’d ‘Election,’ When each grave Senator the sport promotes, And throws the main with—cogg’d and loaded votes.
† 2. Fraudulently palmed off; feigned in order to cheat; pretended. Obs.
1589. Nashe, Anat. Absurditie, 6. Minerals, stones, and herbes, should not haue such cogged natures and names ascribed to them without cause.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Serm. John vii. 24 (R.). There is much cozenage of the poore people by cogged miracles.
¶ 3. Of dice: Loaded. (A misuse, owing to misapprehension of what ‘cogging a die’ meant.)
1806–7. J. Beresford, Miseries Hum. Life (1826), VI. xxxi. When all is done your dice might as well be cogged.
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, IV. iii. Clodius reddened with anger on being presented to a set of cogged dice.
1872. Morley, Voltaire (1886), 169. On the ground that France and Austria were both playing with cogged dice.
