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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (3)

1. be false to; be dishonest with;
[syn: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen]

2. act with artful deceit;

3. cheat or trick;
- Example: "He cozened the money out of the old man"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cozen \Coz"en\, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully. [1913 Webster] Some cogging, cozening slave. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] He had cozened the world by fine phrases. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 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"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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