cozen-

1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
2. Deception or trickery, especially by the clever manipulation of language.
3. A quibble or subterfuge used to trick, to deceive, or to evade.

Although this word is not related to the cozen family, it is presented here because its meaning is applicable to this unit of words.

To cozen, or to cheat the impostor, in return.

1. To deceive, to cheat, or to defraud someone.
2. To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud.
3. To persuade or to induce someone to do something by cajoling or wheedling (persuading by flattery or guile).
4. To obtain something by deceit or persuasion.
5. Etymology: from about 1573; earlier, cozener, "a cheater"; perhaps it was borrowed from French cousiner, a claim to be a cousin for some advantage, "a cheat" on the pretext of being a cousin; from cousin or developed from Middle English cosyn, "a fraud, trickery".

Actually of uncertain origin, maybe even from Old French coçon, "dealer", from Latin cocionem, "horse dealer". In other words, the real origin of this and its related formats is unknown!

1. A fraudulent business scheme via the process of cheating or defrauding or being cheated or defrauded; chicanery.
2. Getting something, or persuading someone to do something, by trickery or wheedling persuasion (flattery or guile).
3. A cheat; a trick; a fraud; deceit; an artifice (deceptive maneuver); the practice of cheating.

Cheated; defrauded; beguiled.

1. Someone who to cheats, deceives, or tricks.
2. Anyone who acts with artful deceit; a cheat, an impostor.
3. A person who misleads by means of a petty trick or fraud; a deceiver.

1. Cheating; defrauding; beguiling.
2. Acting with artful deceit; being an impostor, or a person who makes deceitful pretenses.
3. Being false to; being dishonest with someone, or with people.

In a cozening manner; deceitfully.