Cozen

Etymology
Origin uncertain.

Verb

 * 1)  To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
 * 2) * 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III scene 2
 * [...] What devil was't
 * That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind?

Thesaurus
beat, beguile, beguile of, betray, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, crib, defraud, delude, diddle, do, do in, do out of, double-cross, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, humbug, mislead, mulct, overreach, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, sell out, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize

Related terms

 * cozener
 * cozenage