obessen.
Apparently a compositorial misreading of Chesse, variant of chess n.1
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a1629 C. Cornwallis Disc. Prince Henry (1641) 17 Hee..would sometimes play at Obesse at Biliors and at Cards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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