[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. COZEN; cheating, fraudulent dealing; an imposture.
1576. Fleming, Caius’ Eng. Dogges (1880), 27. With colourable shifts and cloudy cossening.
1621–51. Burton, Anat. Mel., I. ii. I. ii. 43. Not … true bodies … meere illusions and cozenings.
1756. Nugent, Gr. Tour, III. 141. The mysteries of over-reaching and cozening.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 34. By plundering, oppression, cosening.
