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The Vulgar Tongue

HORSE COSER. A dealer in horses: vulgarly and corruptly pronounced HORSE COURSER. The verb TO COSE was used by the Scots, in the sense of bartering or exchanging.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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