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Cozen

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To cheat. (Armoric, couçzyein; Russian, kosnodei; Arabic, gausa; Ethiopic, chasawa; our chouse.)

“I think it no sin

To cozen him that would unjustly win.”

Shakespeare: Al’s Well that Ends Well, iv. 2.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.