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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume C

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.

Coz"en, v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to act deceitfully.

Some cogging, cozening slave.
Shak.

Coz"en·age (-j), n. [See Cozen, and cf. Cousinage.] The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.

Coz"en·er (k?z"'n-?r), n. One who cheats or defrauds.

Co·zier (k?"zh?r), n. See Cosier.

Co"zi·ly (k?"z?-l?), adv. Snugly; comfortably.

Co"zi·ness, n. The state or quality of being cozy.

Co"zy (k?"z?), a. [Compar. Cozier (-z?-?r); superl. Coziest.] [Cf. Scot. cosie, cozie, prob. from Gael. cosach abounding in hollows, or cosagach full of holes or crevices, snug, sheltered, from cos a hollow, a crevice.]

1. Snug; comfortable; easy; contented. [Written also cosey and cosy.]

2. [Cf. F. causer to chat, talk.] Chatty; talkative; sociable; familiar. [Eng.]

Co"zy, n. [See Cozy,a.] A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

C Q D. In radiotelegraphy, the letters signified by the code call formerly used (cf. S O S) by ships in distress, formed by combining the code call C Q (formerly used as a general call for all stations) with D for distress.


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