cossid
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”).
Noun
editcossid (plural cossids)
- (Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger.
- 1834, “News from Candahar”, in Accounts and Papers, 11.XL:
- On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.
- 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 221:
- As elsewhere, contact was maintained by means of fleet-footed messengers, known as cossids, who took their lives in their hands running the gauntlet with secret despatches concealed on them.
Etymology 2
editNoun
editcossid (plural cossids)
- (zoology, entomology) Any moth of the family Cossidae.