Chouse

[imp. & p. p. CHOUSED (choust); p. pr. & vb. n. CHOUSING.] [From the Turk. chiaous, a messenger of the Turkish emperor, one of whom, in 1609, committed a gross fraud upon the Turkish merchants resident in England, by cheating them out of £4,000; hence, from the notoriety of this circumstance, to chiaous, or chouse, to do as this chiaous did, to cheat, defraud.] To cheat, trick, defraud;—followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Low.]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.