[f. COG v.3 + -ING1.] The action of the verb COG3. a. Cheating at dice. b. Underhand dealing, deceit. c. Deceitful flattery; fawning.
1532. [see COG v.3 1].
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 1143/2. The unhonest dealing and false cogging of these men.
1599. James I., Βασιλικον Δωρον, 125. As to dyceing … only ruled by hazarde, and subject to knavish cogging.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 276. A gnatonick sycophantizing, or parasitical cogging.
1656. S. Winter, Serm., 176 b. By the slight (κυβεια the cogging of the die) of men.
1783. Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), II. Assentatio, flattering, cogging, and soothing, adulation.
1862. Sala, Seven Sons, III. xii. 277. There had come an end to the lying, and cogging, and fawning, and deceiving.
b. attrib.
1577. Northbrooke, Dicing (1843), 118. If you did vnderstande … of their false dice, cogging termes, and orders, it will make you abhorre, detest, and defie all dice-playing.
1636. Abp. Williams, Holy Table (1637), 226. It is his Cogging-box, to stricke what Casts of the Dice he lists to call for.
Cogging vbl. sb.2: see COG v.2
