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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for cozen:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

cozen
    v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on,
         delude, cozen]
    2: act with artful deceit
    3: cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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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3. 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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