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Webster 1913 Edition
Coss
Coss
(kŏs)
, Noun.
[Cf. Pers.
kōs
a road measure of about two miles; or Skr. krōça
.] A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
Whitworth.
Coss
,Noun.
[It.
cosa
.] A thing (only in phrase below).
Rule of Coss
, an old name for Algebra.
[It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Coss
COSS
,Noun.
Definition 2024
coss
coss
English
Alternative forms
Noun
coss (plural cosses or coss)
- (India) A measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:
- A full half koss from bank to bank is the stream now – you can see it under the stars – and there are ten feet of water therein.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘In Flood Time’, In Black and White, Folio Society 2005, pp. 410-11:
See also
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kussaz, whence also Old High German kus, Old Norse koss.
Noun
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