Obs. Also 7 coiziar. [ad. OF. cousere seamster, tailor, accus. couseor, -eur, f. coudre, cousant to sew; cf. Sp. coser to sew.] A cobbler.
1532. in Weaver, Wells Wills (1890), 184. John Lye, cosyer, of Wellington.
1599. Minsheu, Sp. Dict., II. A Cosier or cobler, remendón.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. iii. 97. Ye squeak out your Coziers Catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice.
1605. Armin, Foole upon F., C 2 b. How this leane Foole Leanard, eating his belly full, was reuenged of one that clapt coiziars waxe to his head.
1658. Phillips, Cosier (old word), a Botcher, called also a Sowter. [Hence in later Dicts., some of which erroneously have ‘A tailor who botches his work.’]
