Ireland. [Phonetic repr. of Irish coisir feast, feasting, entertainment.]

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  intr. To feast; to live at free quarters upon dependants or kinsmen.

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1634–5.  Stat. Ireland 10–11 Chas. I., c. 16. If any person or persons … shall cosher, lodge or cesse themselves … upon the inhabitants.

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1640.  Shirley, St. Patrick for Irel., V. i. I would not leave a head … from my mother’s sucking pig at her nipple to my great-grandfather’s coshering in the peas-straw.

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1689.  [Farewell], Irish Hudibras, 78 (N.).

        A very fit and proper House, Sir,
For such a worthy Guest to Cosher.

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