\Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloyed} (kloid); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cloying}.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr.
OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d {Clove}.]
1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
         The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by
         sinking ships, laden with stones.     --Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill
   to loathing; to surfeit.
         [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare
         imagination of a feast?               --Shak.
         He sometimes cloys his readers instead of
         satisfying.                           --Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
         Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
                                               --Spenser.
         He never shod horse but he cloyed him. --Bacon.
4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] --Johnson.
5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] --Shak.