Lexicographical Neighbors of Hocusing
Literary usage of Hocusing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1899)
"... bullies, and vagrants; and as these came to be guarded as prisoners, many of
them reached pillage, resort being had to hocusing with narcotic poisons, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1856)
"Like the sun in his glory, all croaking contemns : Do you really think that the
secret is theirs Of hocusing ..."
3. The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Including All the Words in Common Use by William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer (1919)
"... uu-i U£» p.pr. hocusing], to cheat or trick; to stupefy or render insensible
by means of drugged liquor in order to cheat or rob: n. s person who tricks ..."
4. History of Rumford, Oxford County, Maine: From Its First Settlement in 1779 by William Berry Lapham (1890)
""Resolved, That the hocusing board of this town are hereby instructed to license
two persons to sell ardent spirits for medicinal and mechanical purposes ..."
5. The Encyclopædic Dictionary of Photography: Containing Over 2,000 References by Walter E. Woodbury (1896)
"198 —hocusing GLASS. It is a good plan to mark the focusing screen, as shown in
Fig. 199, with the different sizes smaller than the camera is intended for, ..."
6. House-plants as Sanitary Agents; Or, The Relation of Growing Vegetation to by James Meschter Anders (1886)
""This is all strange enough; but stranger still, I strongly suspect the Arum of
deliberately hocusing its nectar ..."
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