chouse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To cheat, to trick.

   “This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money”

2. isim One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.

   “He that with injury is griev'd, And goes to law to be reliev'd, Is sillier than a sottish chouse Who , when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods agen”

3. isim A trick; a sham.
4. isim A swindler.

   “By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good court-hand more, If I discover . What do you think of me, That I am a chouse?”

5. fiil To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
6. fiil To handle, to take care of.
7. fiil To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.

   “[…] but the fact remains that my range cattle, because of the chousing which they received at the hands of the troops and the fright that they had, were caused to go into a period of considerable range deficiency without the flesh with which they should have entered this period.”