covid

noun3

1. •
   Ellipsis of COVID-19, the disease caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2.
2. •
   (no longer used) A cubit.

   • In weights and measures one hundred catties were equivalent to one picul, or 133½ English pounds; in cloth or long measure ten “poontas” to one covid, and two covids to thirty-six inches English. — 1908
3. •
   (no longer used) A chi.

   • A measure of length, the Chinese cubit, by Europeans called covid. — 1815