† ˈcozier Obs.
Also 7 coiziar.
[ad. OF. cousere seamster, tailor, accus. couseor, -eur, f. coudre, cousant to sew; cf. Sp. coser to sew.]
A cobbler.
| 1532 in Weaver Wells Wills (1890) 184 John Lye, cosyer, of Wellington. 1599 Minsheu Sp. Dict. 11, A Cosier or cobler, remendón. 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. ii. iii. 97 Ye squeak out your Coziers Catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice. 1605 R. Armin Foole upon F. (1880) 22 How this leane Foole Leonard..was reuenged of one that clapt coiziars waxe to his head. 1658 Phillips, Cosier (old word), a Botcher, called also a Sowter. [Hence in later Dicts., some of which erroneously have ‘A tailor who botches his work’.] |