bribe English
Noun
( en noun)
Something (usually money) given in exchange for influence or as an inducement to dishonesty.
* Hobart
- Undue reward for anything against justice is a bribe .
That which seduces; seduction; allurement.
* Akenside
- Not the bribes of sordid wealth can seduce to leave these everblooming sweets.
Synonyms
* See also
Verb
( brib)
To give a to.
* F. W. Robertson
- Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience.
To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe.
- to bribe somebody's compliance
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cog Etymology 1
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) kogge, cogghe (modern kogge), from (etyl) . See below.
Noun
( en noun)
(label) A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull.
*, Bk.V, Ch.iv:
*:As the Kynge was in his cog and lay in his caban, he felle in a slumberyng.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) cogge, from (etyl) (compare (etyl) .
The meaning of “cog” in carpentry derives from association with a tooth on a cogwheel.
Noun
( en noun)
A tooth on a gear
A gear; a cogwheel
An unimportant individual in a greater system.
* 1976, Norman Denny (English translation),
- ‘There are twenty-five of us, but they don’t reckon I’m worth anything. I’m just a cog in the machine.’
* 1988,
- Your boss tells you “take initiative,” you best guess right—and you do , then you get no credit. Day-in, … smiling, smiling, just a cog .
(carpentry) A projection or tenon at the end of a beam designed to fit into a matching opening of another piece of wood to form a joint.
(mining) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Derived terms
* cog joint
Verb
(cogg)
To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Etymology 3
Uncertain origin. Both verb and noun appear first in 1532.
Noun
( en noun)
A trick or deception; a falsehood.
- (William Watson)
Verb
( cogg)
to load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat
to cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently
* Jonathan Swift
- For guineas in other men's breeches, / Your gamesters will palm and will cog .
To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.
* Shakespeare
- I'll cog their hearts from them.
To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; to palm off.
- to cog in a word
* J. Dennis
- Fustian tragedies have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) cogge
Alternative forms
* cogue
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