CPage 440
- English Word Costing Definition of Cost
- English Word Costive Definition Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
- English Word Costive Definition Reserved; formal; close; cold.
- English Word Costive Definition Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
- English Word Costively Definition In a costive manner.
- English Word Costiveness Definition An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
- English Word Costiveness Definition Inability to express one's self; stiffness.
- English Word Costless Definition Costing nothing.
- English Word Costlewe Definition Costly.
- English Word Costliness Definition The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
- English Word Costly Definition Of great cost; expensive; dear.
- English Word Costly Definition Gorgeous; sumptuous.
- English Word Costmary Definition A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.
- English Word Costotome Definition An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.
- English Word Costrel Definition A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
- English Word Costume Definition Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
- English Word Costume Definition Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.
- English Word Costume Definition A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
- English Word Costumer Definition One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.
- English Word Cosupreme Definition A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme.
- English Word Cosureties Definition of Cosurety
- English Word Cosurety Definition One who is surety with another.
- English Word Cosy Definition See Cozy.
- English Word Cot Definition A small house; a cottage or hut.
- English Word Cot Definition A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote.
- English Word Cot Definition A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger.
- English Word Cot Definition A small, rudely-formed boat.
- English Word Cot Definition A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed.
- English Word Cotangent Definition The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
- English Word Cotarnine Definition A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.