Cozen \Coz"en\, v. i.
To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.
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Some cogging, cozening slave. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cozen \Coz"en\ (k?z"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cozened (-'nd);
p. pr. & vb. n. Cozening (-'n-?ng). ] [From cousin, hence,
literally, to deceive through pretext of relationship, F.
cousiner.]
To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by
small arts, or in a pitiful way.
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He had cozened the world by fine phrases. --Macaulay.
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Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the
letters. --Locke.
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Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen
him,
and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened.
--Clarendon.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cozen
v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude]
2: act with artful deceit
3: cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"
WordNet (r) 2.0
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "cozen":
beat, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat,
chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, crib,
defraud, delude, diddle, do, do in, do out of, double-cross,
euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull,
gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mislead, mulct, overreach,
pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw,
sell gold bricks, sell out, shave, shortchange, stack the cards,
stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig,
throw a fight, victimize
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
deceive, delude, lead on
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