“ COSEL, or Kosel, a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Silesia, at the junction of the Klodnitz and the Oder, 29 m. S.E. of Oppeln by rail. Pop. (1905) 7085. It has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, an old château and a grammar-school (Progymnasium) . Its industries are of some importance, including a manufactory of cellulose (employing 1200 hands) , steam saw- and flour-mills and a petroleum refinery. There is a lively trade by river. ”