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Webster 1913 Edition
Accloy
Ac-cloy′
(ăk-kloi′)
, Verb.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accloy
ACCLOY'
, To fill; to stuff; to fill to satiety. [Not used.] [See Clay.]Definition 2024
accloy
accloy
English
Verb
accloy (third-person singular simple present accloys, present participle accloying, simple past and past participle accloyed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
- (transitive, obsolete) To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
- (transitive, obsolete) To clog, clog up; to block.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.
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- (transitive, archaic) To be disgusting to.