bezzled

Now you have 'bezzled my property; I shan't sue you, and I shan't pitch into you, but I must dissolve the partnership, because I can't trust you, and I don't wish to fail.

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

How much then would you have had to do with a young fellow of whom you knew only four things -- that he gambled, got drunk, 'bezzled a thousand dollars, and had been in jail?

A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Edward Payson Roe 1863

Of a bond oi 'an apprentice, if goods em - bezzled within twenty days after notice, to make fatisfadion; the plaintiff maft fhew where he became an apprentice, and fuch a perfon as might be by 5 £/«. and notice muft be given to the appren - tice, and his furety both together, and the apprentice's own confeffion is no good proof therein, -- 723

Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641] 1790

'bezzled my property; I shan't sue you, and I shan't pitch into you, but

Little Men Louisa May Alcott 1860