Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to hang; thus noosing, a hanging.

1639		J. Taylor Crabtree Lectures 195: Cove. I will venture a training, [sic] or a noosing, ’ere I will want Lower, peckage, beane bowse, or duds for my Morts, & my Kinchins.
1652		Laughing Mercury 6-12 Oct. 115: Hans may ene draw his Sluices, or nooze himself in his Willow Neck-neckenger.
1663		Wandring Whores Complaint 5: Are all the black trades of a gentleman Thief, / Who (though a good workman) is seldom set free, / Till he rides in a Cart to be Nuc’d on a Tree.
1671		‘L.B.’ New Academy of Complements 205: The fifteenth a Prancer, whose courage is small, / If they catch him Horse coursing, he’s noozed for all.
1676		A Newgate ex-prisoner A Warning for House-Keepers 6: And when that he hath noosed us, / And our friends tips him no Cole, / O then he throws us in the cart / And tumbles us into the hole.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Nooz’d, or caught in a Nooze, [...] Hanged.
1702		Cibber She Would and She Would Not II i: Madam shall be noos’d to Morrow Morning.
1712		‘Black Procession’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 39: The fifteenth a prancer, whose courage is small, / If they catch him horse-coursing, he’s nooz’d once for all.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 30: There’s none shall be nooz’d if you find but one true.
1765		in F. Moore Songs and Ballads of the Amer. Revolution (1855) 14: We’ll send each foul revolter / To smutty Africa, / Or noose him in a halter / in North America.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1809		W. Scott Poacher n.p.: Our buckskinn’d justices expound the law [...] And for the netted partridge nooze the swain [F&H].
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 115: ‘Noozed.’ [...] hanged.
1869		‘Thief-Catcher’s Prophecy’ W.H. Logan Pedlar’s Pack of Ballads 142: [as cit. 1754].
1891		Coventry Eve. Teleg. 29 Aug. 3/1: [She] took her two children to the garret of the house and hanged them. She then ‘noosed’ herself.

2. to marry; thus noosed, married.

1684		Otway Soldier’s Fortune pt II: The Atheist I i: Sir, I say, and say again, No Matrimony; I'll not be noos’d.
1694		J. Crowne Married Beau I i: I’m loath to noose my self in Marriage.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Nooz’d, or caught in a Nooze, married.
1710		C. Shadwell Fair Quaker of Deal IV i: I’ll take the freedom of sending for our noble Commadore and his Lady too, who are by this time noosed.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1748		Dyche & Pardon New General Eng. Dict. (5th edn).
1751		Smollett Peregrine Pickle (1964) 156: ‘Tunley, wan’t you noosed by the curate?’ ‘Yes, I was,’ replied the landlord with an eagerness and perplexity of tone.
1765		Foote Commissary in Works (1799) II 43: Once he is noos’d, let him struggle as he will, the cord will, be drawn only the tighter.
1771		Smollett Humphrey Clinker (1925) II 43: There they were noosed before the Irishman ever dreamed of the matter.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Noozed, married.
1795		Sporting Mag. Feb. V 278/2: In one thou’dst find variety, / Cry’d Dick, would’st thou on Wedlock fix; [...] So said, so done, / I’m noos’d for life.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1821		W. Combe Doctor Syntax, Wife (1868) 348/1: Nay, on the third or fourth day after, / They were both noos’d in Hymen’s garter.
1848		‘Ned Buntline’ Mysteries and Miseries of N.Y. I 115: ‘Noozed.’ Married, of hanged.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1871		Hamilton Spectator (Vic.) 7 Jan. 2/1: [W]hen they get marredi, they are ‘noosed,’ ‘coupled,’ ‘spliced,’ ‘paired’ and ‘squelched’.
1879		Sporting Times 8 Mar. 3/1: ‘I might have noosed her myself’.
1881		Trumble Sl. Dict. (1890).
1895		C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 53: Noosed, married.