cozen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cozen	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cozen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cozen v be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen] act with artful deceit cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. --Macaulay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. --Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. --Clarendon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cozen \Coz"en\, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully. Some cogging, cozening slave. --Shak.