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Definition of Cossets
1. cosset [v] - See also: cosset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cossets
Literary usage of Cossets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1857)
"I think that a few cossets may afford a handsome profit. n. MP A wheel hoe costs
from 75 cts. to $1,50. There are two or three kinds of horse hoes, ..."
2. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1883)
"cossets, for defendant. Ferguson, J.] HARPER v. CULBERT. [Jan. 15.
Mortgagor—Mortgagee—Power of sale -Execution ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1888)
"... from among the host of former officers the Survey annals commemorate, the
names of Alexander Hobe and his "gunner" namesake, the two cossets, Vicars, ..."
4. Country Life: A Handbook of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Landscape Gardening by Robert Morris Copeland (1866)
"... the lambs are separated from the ewes, leaving with the lambs one or two dry
ewes, or cossets, to keep them tame, and teach them to follow the shepherd. ..."
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