coss

• kos, koss

Borrowed from Hindustani کوس / कोस (kos). Doublet of krosa.

• IPA^(key): /kɒs/
• Rhymes: -ɒs

coss (plural cosses or coss)

1. (British India, South Asia) A measure of distance, 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, 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.

• rule of coss

• CSOs, SCOs, Socs, socs

• cos, *cus

From Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

• IPA^(key): /koss/, [kos]

coss m

1. kiss

   mid ānum cosse of þē

   with one kiss from you

• cyssan

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