COSS

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

2.
n.

A thing (only in phrase below). Rule of Coss, an old name for Algebra. Etym: [It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]


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