cossid
Not valid in Scrabble
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
/ˈkɒsɪd/(UK)
Definition of cossid
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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
-
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.”
- Any moth of the family Cossidae of carpenter miller moths.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”).
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