CHOUSE

chouse. Chouse, v.t. to cheat, to trick; n. a trick, a fool

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Chouse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] [[From Turk. chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4,000.]] To cheat, trick, defraud; — followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.