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Terms vs Cossid - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and cossid

is that terms is while cossid is (anglo-indian) a courier or messenger or cossid can be (zoology) any member of the cossidae.

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    cossid

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger.
  • *1834 , ‘News from Candahar’, Accounts and Papers , 11.XL:
  • *:On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.
  • *1990 , (Peter Hopkirk), The Great Game (Folio Society 2010), page 221:
  • *: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.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) Any member of the Cossidae.