Verb

To cheat, to trick.

* '', 1853, J. Forster (editor), ''The Works of Walter Savage Landor , Volume 1, page 29,

I cannot think otherwise than that the undertaker of the aforecited poesy hath choused your Highness; for I have seen painted, I know not where, the identically same Dian, with full as many nymphs, as he calls them, and more dogs.

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(US, regional) To handle, to take care of.

* 1980 , John R. Erickson, Panhandle Cowboy , page 79,

This gave the roundup the appearance of a cavalry charge, and a stranger observing the procedure for the first time might have thought we were a bunch of green, possibly drunken cowboys making sport out of chousing' cattle. But we weren't ' chousing them, we were just trying to keep them in sight, and for a very good reason.

Verb

(delud)

To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.

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* Burke

To delude the nation by an airy phantom.

(obsolete) To frustrate or disappoint.

* Dryden

It deludes thy search.