Verb

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(chouse)

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

(head)

(chuse)

Verb

(chus)

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, year = 1557 , author = , title = Tottel's Miscellany , section = Whether libertie by losse of life, or life in prison and thraldome be to be preferred , page = 298 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=KdE2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA298 , passage = Rather therfore to chu?e me thinketh wi?dome.
By lo??e of life libertye, then life by pri?on }}

* 1739 , A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II :

Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.

*1817 , :

"Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse ," said Mr. Bennet

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