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To represent by an emblem; to symbolize. [R.] Emblemed by the cozening fig tree. Feltham.

, into which fish can pass easily, without being able to return; -- called also fyke net. Cozzens.

To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. [R. or Poet.] To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young.

To cheat or cozen; to overreach. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.

An imposture; a deception. Tennyson. A juggle of state to cozen the people. Tillotson.

An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice. [Colloq.] Cozzens.

A flatterer; a deceiver; a cozener. [Obs.] Chaucer. To a fair pair of gallows, there to end their lives with shame, as a number of such other losengers had done. Holinshed.

Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. [Obs.] Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.

A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; - - called also Calycozoa.

A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs. A little cottage, like some poor man's nest. Spenser.

One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. 'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. Milton.

John viii. 34. Sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John iii. 4. I think 't no sin. To cozen him that would unjustly win. Shak. Enthralled By sin to foul, exorbitant desires. Milton.

tchstring. Burns. -- Sneck drawer, a latch lifter; a bolt drawer; hence, a sly person; a cozener; a cheat; -- called also sneckdraw. -- Sneck drawing, lifting the latch.

A snug, cozy place. [Colloq.] Dickens.

Of or pertaining to Tagliacozzi, a Venetian surgeon; as, the Tagliacotian operation, a method of rhinoplasty described by him. [Also Taliacotian, and Tagliacozzian.]

To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

ominent spine on the lip of the shell. Most of them belong to the genera Monoceros and Leucozonia.