Meaning of cossid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A courier or messenger.
2. Any moth of the family Cossidae of carpenter miller moths.

Examples

“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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