Hypertext Webster Gateway: "coss"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coss \Coss\ (k[o^]s), n. [Cf. Pers. k[=o]s a road measure of
about two miles; or Skr. kr[=o][,c]a.]
A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to
two English miles. --Whitworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coss \Coss\, n. [It. cosa.]
A thing (only in phrase below).
{Rule of Coss}, an old name for Algebra. [It. regola di cosa
rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa,
or the thing.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
coss
n : an Indian unit of length having different values in
different localities [syn: {kos}]
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