"chowse" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chowses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chowsing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chowsed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chowsed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chowse (third-person singular simple present chowses, present participle chowsing, simple past and past participle chowsed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "chowse"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "to cheat, to swindle",
          "word": "chouse"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1706 August 3, Charles Leslie, A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the rehearsals, volume 2, number 127, London: W. Bowen, →OCLC, page 300:",
          "text": "Shall chance ſupercede nature? And if nature has given me more ſtrength or cunning than you, why was that, but to make uſe of it? And either to chowſe you, or beat you out of what I think more convenient for my ſelf?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”)."
      ],
      "id": "en-chowse-en-verb-4wExqO-g",
      "links": [
        [
          "chouse",
          "chouse#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "chous"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃaʊs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chowse"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chowses",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chowsing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chowsed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chowsed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "chowse (third-person singular simple present chowses, present participle chowsing, simple past and past participle chowsed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "chowse"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "to cheat, to swindle",
          "word": "chouse"
        }
      ],
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        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:English/aʊs",
        "Rhymes:English/aʊs/1 syllable"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1706 August 3, Charles Leslie, A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the rehearsals, volume 2, number 127, London: W. Bowen, →OCLC, page 300:",
          "text": "Shall chance ſupercede nature? And if nature has given me more ſtrength or cunning than you, why was that, but to make uſe of it? And either to chowſe you, or beat you out of what I think more convenient for my ſelf?",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chouse",
          "chouse#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) Obsolete spelling of chouse (“to cheat, to swindle”)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "chous"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/t͡ʃaʊs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-aʊs"
    }
  ],
  "word": "chowse"
}