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coss (plural cosses or **coss)

(British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.
- 1857, Brian Houghton Hodgson, Selections from the Records of the Government of Bengal, No. XXVII: Papers Relative to the Colonization, Commerce, Physical Geography, &c., &c., of the Himalaya Mountains and Nepal, p. 85:
  […] the distances (computed by marching-time as well as by reference to the Népálese kós of 2⅓ miles each) […]
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, 'In Flood Time', In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, pages 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.

coss (not comparable)

coss m

Strong _a_-stem:

cyssan
Middle English: cos, cus, kis, kys, kysse, kesse
- English: kiss
- Scots: kis
- Yola: kesse