Cloy

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 22

kloi, v.t. to fill to loathing: to satiate: ( Spens. ) to gore:— pr.p. cloy′ing; pa.p. cloyed.— adjs. Cloyed , clagged: cumbered; Cloy′ing , satiating; Cloy′le ( Shak. ) that cannot cloy.— n. Cloy′ment ( Shak. ), satiety, surfeit.— adj. Cloy′some , satiating. [Fr. clouer , to drive a nail into, to spike or stop, as a gun, from L. clavus , a nail.]