cossid

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈkɒsɪd/(UK)

Definition of cossid

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A courier or messenger.
    “On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.”
    “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.”
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noun

  1. A courier or messenger.
    “On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.”
    “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.”
  2. Any moth of the family Cossidae of carpenter miller moths.

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Etymology

From Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”).

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