cozen, cozener
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks · 2015
(A) A word likely to confuse a modern reader, it means to deceive, swindle, cheat, defraud or trick. A cozener is a trickster or fraudster. Curiously, this term appears most frequently in WIV, with 12 appearances making up one-third of the total usages.(B) The most sardonic use occurs in R3, where Q