CPage 439
- English Word Cosset Definition To treat as a pet; to fondle.
- English Word Cossic Definition Alt. of Cossical
- English Word Cossical Definition Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.
- English Word Cost Definition A rib; a side; a region or coast.
- English Word Cost Definition See Cottise.
- English Word Cost Definition of Cost
- English Word Cost Definition To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.
- English Word Cost Definition To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- English Word Cost Definition The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit.
- English Word Cost Definition Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
- English Word Cost Definition Expenses incurred in litigation.
- English Word Costa Definition A rib of an animal or a human being.
- English Word Costa Definition A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
- English Word Costa Definition The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
- English Word Costa Definition One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
- English Word Costage Definition Expense; cost.
- English Word Costal Definition Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.
- English Word Costal Definition Relating to a costa, or rib.
- English Word Costal-nerved Definition Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
- English Word Costard Definition An apple, large and round like the head.
- English Word Costard Definition The head; -- used contemptuously.
- English Word Costardmonger Definition A costermonger.
- English Word Costate Definition Alt. of Costated
- English Word Costated Definition Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
- English Word Costean Definition To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
- English Word Costeaning Definition The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
- English Word Costellate Definition Finely ribbed or costated.
- English Word Coster Definition One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
- English Word Costermonger Definition An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
- English Word Costiferous Definition Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.