[f. COG v.3 + -ING2.] That cogs at dice; cheating; wheedling.
1542. Becon, Pathw. Prayer, Early Wks. (1843), 137. The world thinketh him to be a good, devout man, that goeth up and down with a cogging pair of beads in his hands.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 258 b. This Parasiticall Gallaunt … with hys cogging companion Sariga.
1603. Dekker, Grissil (1841), 16. As many rich cogging merchants now-a-days do.
1604. Shaks., Oth., IV. ii. 132. Some cogging, cozening Slaue.
1608. Rowlands, Humors Looking Gl., 24. A cogging knaue and fawning Parrasit.
1654. Trapp, Comm. Job xiii. 9. God is not mocked, deluded … as patients are by their cogging quack-salvers.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxv. Some trick of those cogging priests and nuns.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 322. The cogging dicers of Whitefriars.
