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Cozen (verb) means to settle into a warm, comfortable state, or more widely, to grow familiar and at ease with someone or something.

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To settle into a warm, comfortable state, or more widely, to grow familiar and at ease with someone or something.

"I heard someone at the swap meet say they were going to cozen up to someone, and someone else told me my sales pitch was a filibuster." — Kim Stanley Robinson, The Wild Shore (2013)

"A wasp nest cozened up in the corner of the far ceiling." — Rick Cox, Orphan Moon (2013)

""As I see it, Master Fraser, a 'bairn' ought to be verra concerned when a mon thrice her age cozens up to her."" — Hannah Howell, Silver Flame (2008)

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