coxocerite (koksoserit)

[ coxoceritic (kok-sos-e-rit'ik), a. [ 3. The top of the head, or the head itself. IMG:content-1520.png:[blocks in formation] coy 2. A decoy. See decoy , n. Till the great mallard be catch't in the coy . Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, ii. 133. coy2 (koi), n. [E. dial., prob. koye , D. kooi , a coop, cage, fold, hive, hammock, berth (cf. kouw , a cage), = E. Fries. koje , kooi , a hammock, berth, also an inclosure, = MLG. LG. koje , a cage, stall, berth, > prob. G. koje , a berth, Dan. koje , a berth, hammock, = Sw. koja , a berth, hammock, also a cage, jail; all ult. cave a (ML. cavia ), a cage, whence also E. cage : see cage , cavel , coe2 .] A cage or pen for lobsters. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] coy-duckt (koi'duk), n. A decoy-duck. IMG:content-1521.jpg:[blocks in formation] Drant, tr. of Horace, ii. 3. IMG:content-1522.jpg:[blocks in formation] coze, cose (kōz), n. [Formed from cozy, a.] Anything snug, comfortable, or cozy; specifically, a cozy conversation, or tête-à-tête. [Rare.] They might have a comfortable coze . Jane Austen , Mans field Park, xxvi. coze, cose (kōz), v. i.; pret. and pp. cozed, cosed, ppr. cozing, cosing. [Like coze, n., formed from cozy, a.] To be snug, comfortable, or cozy; cuddle. [Rare.] The sailors cose round the fire with wife and child. Kingsley , Two Years Ago, iii. cozen1t, n. An obsolete spelling of cousin1 . cozen (kuz'n), v. [Early mod. E. also cosen , co sin , coozen , coosen, coosin, couzen , cousen , cousin , being orig. identical in form and connected in sense with cousin , a relative; F.cousiner , call "cousin," claim kindred for advantage, sponge, 1. To cheat; defraud. IMG:content-1523.png:[blocks in formation] A statelier resolution arms my confidence, To cozen thee of honour. Ford , Broken Heart, iv. 4. O lover, art thou grown too full of dread To look him in the face whom thou feared'st not To cozen of the fair thing he had got? William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II, 364. 2. To deceive; beguile; entice. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke, Education. II. in trans. To practise cheating; act dishonestly or deceitfully. Some cogging, cozening slave. Shak ., Othello, iv. 2. What care I to see a man run after a Sermon, if he Couzen and Cheats as soon as he comes home? Selden , Table-Talk, p. 76. cozen a gelt, n. See cousinage1 . cozenage2 (kuz'n-āj), n. [ -age .] Trickery; fraud; deceit; artifice; the practice of cheating. All that their whole lives had heap'd together By cozenage , perjury, or sordid thrift. Mas singer, Duke of Milan, iii. 1. The art of getting, either by violence, cozenage , flattery, lying, or by putting on a guise of religion. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , i. Betray not by the cozenage of sense Thy votaries. Words worth , Power of Sound, vi.