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accloys

accloys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of accloy.

Meaning of accloy

Verb

accloy (third-person singular simple present accloys, present participle accloying, simple past and past participle accloyed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To clog, clog up; to block.
    • At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii
  4. (archaic, transitive) To be disgusting to.

Questions about accloys

What is accloys the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Accloys is the third-person singular simple present indicative of accloy.

Words near accloys in the dictionary

  1. acclivity
  2. acclivous
  3. accloy
  4. accloyed
  5. accloying
  6. accloys
  7. ACCME
  8. accoast
  9. accoasted
  10. accoasting
  11. accoasts

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