What is "cozener"

Usage examples of "cozener".

Southwark on the far bank of the Thames: to some mean house, surely, there to meet a cozener or a ruffian, a man who dared not show his face in polite company.

There was a troop of crowders in the little town, and as many cozeners and dommerers as if it had been an abbey-gate, and a knot of dark men at the bridge-end who had the air of rufflers and whose long knives were plain beneath their shirts.

A FAIR NECK FOR THE MAIDEN % II % III % IV % V III: THE COUNTESS AND THE COZENER % II % III % IV % V % VI IV: A MODEL FOR MR HOGARTH % II % III % IV % V V: ALMOST A LADY[27] % II % III % IV VI: ARSENIC A LA BRETONNE % II % III % IV % V % VI VII: THE MERRY WIDOWS % II % III % IV % V % VI % VII % VIII Being a Series of Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of Notorious Women, Murderesses, Cheats, COZENERs, on whom Justice was Executed, and of others who, Accused of Crimes, were Acquitted at least in Law.

Among rogues and idle persons, finally, we find to be comprised all proctors that go up and down with counterfeit licences, cozeners, and such as gad about the country, using unlawful games, practisers of physiognomy and palmestry, tellers of fortunes, fencers, players, minstrels, jugglers, pedlers, tinkers, pretended scholars, shipmen, prisoners gathering for fees, and others so oft as they be taken without sufficient licence.