cossid

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkɒsɪd/

Etymology 1

From Arabic قَاصِد‎ (qāṣid, “courier”).

Noun

cossid (plural cossids)

  1. (Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger.
    • 1834, ‘News from Candahar’, 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 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

Noun

cossid (plural cossids)

  1. (zoology) Any member of the family Cossidae of moths.

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