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poss | coss |

As an abbreviation poss

is alternative form of poss.|lang=en.

As a verb poss

is to mix with a vertical motion, especially when washing the hands.

As a noun coss is

a measure of distance in India, varying from one and a quarter to two and a half English miles.

poss

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head)
  • Verb

    (es)
  • (archaic) To mix with a vertical motion, especially when washing the hands.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To push; to dash; to throw.
  • * Piers Plowman
  • A cat possed them [the rats] about.

    Anagrams

    * *

    coss

    English

    Alternative forms

    * koss

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (India) A measure of distance in India, 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 2005, pp. 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.
  • See also

    * rule of coss ----