1804 Lady E. Holland Jrnl. 10 Apr. (MS BL Add. 51931) f. 96 P. Emanuel de Salm, M.^de de Montijo, her daughter M.^de de Lazan, Falck Lambert, Gravina – extremely pleasant & delightful Coze upon interesting Subjects.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. viii. 181 Miss Crawford..proposed their going up into her room, where they might have a comfortable coze.

1823 A. Moysey Confederates II. iv. 87 I'm in no hurry, and we have not had a coze, for—I don't know when.

1868 E. Sewell After Life II. i. 9 I would much rather have you alone in my own little den for a pleasant cose over the fire.

1994 P. Veryan Shadow's Bliss iv. 60 He gasped out a request that they stop and have ‘a friendly cose’.

2011 E. Beacon One Final Season ii. 28 She missed steps in her attempts to watch Eilianne and Lord Shuttleworth having a comfortable coze.

1808 F. Reynolds Begone Dull Care iii. ii. 38 But here I go, and with my doors safe barr'd, and cozing in my elbow-chair, o'er old October, and a snug wood fire, how shall I chuckle to be safe from male and petticoated place-hunters!

1838 W. H. Merle Melton de Mowbray I. xi. 201 The trial may be made by us bachelors, at least, when cozing in solitude by the winter's hearth—when wearied in mind and body by the toils of the day—we turn from the tea-table, stretch our limbs on the low reclining chair, and revel in dreamy happiness beside our fire.

1818 H. Lewin Let. 12 Aug. in T. H. Lewin Lewin Lett. (1909) I. 177 Nobody knows how I long for you to coze with.

1828 C. Lyell in Life, Lett. & Jrnls. (1881) I. viii. 183 Breakfasted with Murchison and..cozed with him till midnight.

1885 W. H. D. Adams Eng. on Sea II. viii. 194 How surprised you would have been to have dropped into the ‘Fountain Inn’, and seen Lord Nelson, my wife, and myself, sitting over the fireside cozing.

1997 L. Kerstan Midnight Clear (e-book ed.) She was merely a secretary, working at her desk while they cozed with Lady Swann.