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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COSSET, n. [G., a house.] A lamb brought up by hand, or without the aid of the dam.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1579 a pet lamb; broadly pet II. transitive verb Date: 1640 to treat as a pet ; pamper

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (cosseted, cosseting) pamper. Etymology: dial. cosset = pet lamb, prob. f. AF coscet, cozet f. OE cotsæta cottager (as COT(2), SIT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cosset Cos"set (k?s"s?t), n. [Cf. AS. cotsetla cottager, G. kossat, kothsasse, fr. kot, koth E. (cot) hut, and cf. also E. cade, a., cot a cade lamb.] A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cosset Cos"set, v. t. To treat as a pet; to fondle. She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. --O. W. Holmes.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cossets, cosseting, or cossetting cosseted, or cossetted) If someone is cosseted, everything possible is done for them and they are protected from anything unpleasant. Our kind of travel is definitely not suitable for people who expect to be cosseted. = pamper VERB: usu passive, be V-ed

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Pet lamb, hand-reared lamb; pet (of any kind). II. v. a. Fondle, caress, pet, coddle, make a pet of, make much of.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A foundling. Cosset colt or lamb; a colt or lamb brought up by hand.

Moby Thesaurus

care for, caress, cater to, cherish, cocker, coddle, cradle, cultivate, dandle, dry-nurse, favor, feed, fondle, foster, give way to, gratify, humor, indulge, lavish care on, mollycoddle, mother, nourish, nurse, nurture, oblige, pamper, pat, pet, please, satisfy, spoil, spoon-feed, suckle, sustain, wet-nurse, yield to