HO´SSII, O´SSI(Ὅσσιοι, Ptol. 3.5.22), a people of Sarmatia Europaea, who occupied the E. coasts of the Baltic— Esthoniaand the island of Oesel, and belonged to the Finnish stock. (Schafarik. Slav. Alt. vol. i. pp. 298, 302.)[E.B.J]