"cossid" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "قَاصِد",
        "4": "",
        "5": "courier"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ق ص د"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cossids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cossid (plural cossids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, “News from Candahar”, in Accounts and Papers, 11.XL:",
          "text": "On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 221:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A courier or messenger."
      ],
      "id": "en-cossid-en-noun-v8tt9JtQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "courier",
          "courier"
        ],
        [
          "messenger",
          "messenger"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒsɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cossid"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cossids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cossid (plural cossids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Entomology",
          "orig": "en:Entomology",
          "parents": [
            "Arthropodology",
            "Zoology",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Zoology",
          "orig": "en:Zoology",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 91",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Moths",
          "orig": "en:Moths",
          "parents": [
            "Insects",
            "Arthropods",
            "Animals",
            "Lifeforms",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any moth of the family Cossidae."
      ],
      "id": "en-cossid-en-noun-xgTQyq~O",
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "entomology",
          "entomology"
        ],
        [
          "moth",
          "moth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology, entomology) Any moth of the family Cossidae."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "entomology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒsɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cossid"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Arabic",
    "English terms derived from Arabic",
    "English terms derived from the Arabic root ق ص د",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Moths"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "قَاصِد",
        "4": "",
        "5": "courier"
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "ق ص د"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Arabic قَاصِد (qāṣid, “courier”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cossids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cossid (plural cossids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, “News from Candahar”, in Accounts and Papers, 11.XL:",
          "text": "On the 28th April a cossid arrived here from the Sirdars of Candahar, with letters from Dost Mahomed Khan, and Nawab Jubbar Khan.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 221:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A courier or messenger."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "courier",
          "courier"
        ],
        [
          "messenger",
          "messenger"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Anglo-Indian) A courier or messenger."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒsɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cossid"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Moths"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cossids",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cossid (plural cossids)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Entries using missing taxonomic name (family)",
        "en:Entomology",
        "en:Zoology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any moth of the family Cossidae."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "zoology",
          "zoology"
        ],
        [
          "entomology",
          "entomology"
        ],
        [
          "moth",
          "moth"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(zoology, entomology) Any moth of the family Cossidae."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "entomology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "zoology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkɒsɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "cossid"
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Anglo-Indian",
  "path": [
    "cossid"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cossid",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: Anglo-Indian",
  "path": [
    "cossid"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "cossid",
  "trace": ""
}