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ay, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.

The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. J. H. Newman.

Congenial. [Obs.]

Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful. [Obs.] The cogent force of nature. Prior.

In a cogent manner; forcibly; convincigly; conclusively. Locke.

A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.

Trick; deception. Bp. Watson.

A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.

being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

Full of thought; thoughtful. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

t; to think. He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth. Bacon.

The act of thinking; thought; meditation; contemplation. "Fixed in cogitation deep." Milton.

Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston.

A dealer in cogware or coarse cloth. [Obs.] Wright.

A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.

ature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

The state of being cognate.

Relatives by the mother's side. Wharton.

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.