Definition of "cog" [cog]

• One of a series of teeth, as on the rim of a wheel or gear, whose engagement transmits successive motive force to a corresponding wheel or gear. (noun)
• A cogwheel. (noun)
• A subordinate member of an organization who performs necessary but usually minor or routine functions. (noun)
• To load or manipulate (dice) fraudulently. (verb-transitive)
• To cheat, especially at dice. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "V. ii.235 (440,6) [Since you can cog] To _cog_ signifies _to falsify the dice, _ and _to falsify a narrative, _ or _to lye."
• "People with MS use the term "cog fog" to describe the deterioration in cognitive functioning."
• "Advances in cog­ni­tive sci­ence, as they become more widely known, may start to cor­rode the cult of the indi­vid­ual by replac­ing an uncom­pli­cated “I” with a shift­ing and con­tin­gent “we”."