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To cost dear, to require a great outlay, or involve or en- 
tail much trouble, suffering, loss, etc. 
Were it known that you mean as you say, surely those 
wordes might cost you dear. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref. to n., note. 
'T has often cost the boldest Cedar dear 
To grapple with a storm. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, i. 89. 
cost 2 (U6st), . [< ME. cost, const, F. cout, cost, 
= Pr. cost, costa = Sp. costo, costa = Pg. custa 
= It. costo = D. kost= OHG. chosta, MHG. koste, 
G. kost = Dan. Sw. kost (ML. costo), cost, ex- 
cost-book 
Thare fore I telle yow schorttely, how a man may goon 
with lytel costaiie and schortte tyme. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 125. 
For more solempne in eutry mannes syght 
This feste was, and gretter of costage, 
Than was the reuel of hir mariage. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 1126. 
COStal (kos'tal), a. [= F. Sp. Pg. costal = It. cos- 
tale, < NL. costalis (ML. 'costalis, in neut. cos- 
tale, the side of a hill), < costa, a rib, the side, 
etc.: see costa, coast, .] 1. In anat.: (a) Per- 
taining to the ribs or the side of the body : as, 
Goat-moth ( Cossus ligniperda ), reduced about one third. 
of the largest of the British moths, is called the gnat-moth, 
from the disagreeable hircine odor of the larva; ; it ex- 
pands 8 to 3i inches, and is of variegated coloration. 
2. [/. c.] Same as acne. 
COSSyphene (kos'i-fen), n. [< F. cossi/phene 
(Latreille).] A beetle of the genus Cossyphu*, 
or of some allied genus. 
cossyphore (kos'i-for), n. Same as cossypltene. 
Cossyphus (kos'i-fus), n. [NL., < Gr. n6aav$o<;, 
a singing bird, perhaps the black ouzel ; also a 
sea-fish.] 1. In entom., a genus of atracheliate 
heteromerous insects, of the family Tenebrio- 
nida;. Fabricius, 1792. 2f. In ornith., a genus 
of sturnoid passerine birds: same as Acrido- 
theres. Dumeril. 3. In icitth., a genus of per- 
coid fishes. Valenciennes. 
COSSyrite (kos'i-rit), n. [< Gr. Koaavpoc,, also 
Koaaovpa, an island between Sicily and Africa, 
now called Pantellaria, 4- -ite 2 .] A mineral 
related to amphibole in form and composition, 
occurring in triclinic crystals in the liparite of 
the island of Pantellaria. 
COSt 1 (kost), n. [< ME. cost, < ONorth. cost, < 
Icel. kostr, m., choice, chance, opportunity, con- 
dition, state, quality, = AS. cyst, f., choice, 
election, a thing chosen, excellence, virtue, = 
OS. kust = OFries. kest, choice, estimation, 
virtue, = MD. D. kast = OHG. cJtust, cust, MHG. 
kust, G. kurat, f., choice, = Goth, kitstus, m., 
gakusts, f., test, proof; with formative -t, < 
Goth, kiusan = AS. ceosan (pp. coren), etc., 
choose: see choose.} If. Manner; way and 
means. 
Bi-knowe alle the cosies of care that he hade. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 249a. 
2f. Quality ; condition ; property ; value ; worth. 
Who-so knew the castes that knit ar therinue [in the girdle] 
He wolde hit prayse at more prys, parauenture. 
. . , ,, costal erves. (6) Bearing ribs; costiferous: 
pense ; from the verb.] 1. The equivalent or those Vertebra which bear ribs, and 
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price given for a 
j,.^ e . or service exchanged, 
purchased, or paid for; the amount paid, or 
engaged to be paid, for some thing or some 
service : as, the cos* of a suit of clothes ; the 
cost of building a house. Nothing has any emit until 
it is actually attained or obtained ; while price is the 
amount which is asked for a service or thing. 
By names a House I hir'd was lost 
Last Year : and I must pay the Cost. 
Prior, A Dutch Proverb. 
Value is the life-giving power of anything ; cost, the 
quantity of labour required to produce it; price, the 
quantity of labour which its possessor will take m ex- 
change for it. Ruskin, Munera Pulveris, 12. 
2. That which is expended; outlay of any kind, 
and is then called 
the pterostigina. But 
many authors include 
in the term costal only 
one or more cells be- 
tween the pterostig- 
ma and the base of the 
wing. Costal mar- 
gin, in entom., the cos 
as of money, labor, time, or trouble ; expense or is frequently opaque, 
expenditure in general; specifically, great ex- >"" : 
pense : as, the work was done at public cost. 
Have we eaten at all of the king's cost t 2 Sam. xix. 42. 
Let foreign princes vainly boast 
The rude effects of pride and cost. 
Waller, Her Majesty s New Building. 
Passing to birds, we find preservation of the race se- 
cured at a greatly diminished cost to both parents and off- 
spring. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 275. 
3. pi. In law : (a) The sums fixed by law or 
allowed by the court for charges in a suit, 
awarded usually against the party losing, and 
in favor of the party prevailing or his attorney. 
Nobody but you can rescue her, . . . and you can only 
do that by paying the costs of the suit lx>th of plaintiff 
and defendant. Dickens, Pickwick, xlvii. 
to that part of the sternum to which ribs are 
attached. 2. In entom., pertaining to the costa 
or anterior edge of an insect's wing; situated 
on or near the costa. 3. In M., pertaining to 
the costa or midrib of a leaf or frond. 
Veins . forming a single costal row of long areote. 
Syn. t'il., p. 523. 
Costal angle, in entom., the tip of the wing. Costal 
area, in entom., a part of the wing or tegminum bordering 
the anterior margin, and extending to the subcostal vein. 
In many of the Orthoptera it has a different texture and 
appearance from the restof the wing. Costal cartilage. 
See cartilage. Costal cells, in entom., the cells nearest 
the costa, generally numbered from the base of the wing 
outward. One of them 
Wing of Bee, showing costa. or costal 
vein, a, and subcostal vein, *. The space 
inclosed by a and * is the costal cell. 
fa or anterior margin of the wing. Costal plate, m Che- 
Ionia, one of a series of expanded dermal plates of bone, 
ankylosed with a rib, forming a part of the carapace. See 
cut under Chelonia. Costal processes, in iimitlt.: (a) 
The unciform processes given off by many ribs, overlap- 
ping succeeding ribs. (6) Certain parts of the sternum 
with which the ribs articulate. They are very prominent 
in passerine birds. See cut under can'nate. Costal vein, 
in entom., a large longitudinal vein or rib nearly parallel 
to, and frequently touching, the anterior margin, but in 
the Odonata separated from it by the marginal vein. 
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(6) The sum which the law allows -to the at- costally (kos'tal-i), adv. Inentom.: (a) Toward 
torney, to be paid by his client At all costs, the costa or front margin of the wing: as, a 
See cost!. costs Tof the cause or of the action, in law, band produced costally. (b) Over the costal 
the aggregate of costs to which the prevailing party is en- ve j n . as a ij ne CO staUy angulated. 
titled against his adversary on reaching final judgment in cos t a l-nerved (kos'tal-nervd), a. In lot., hav- 
SUSS^.^M^SRSSSZ C ?ng the^eTondlry nerves of he leaf springing 
Chief men of worth, of mekle cost, 
To be lamentit sair for ay. 
Battle of Uarlaw (Child's Ballads, VII. 188). 
At all costs, by all means; at all events. [This phrase 
was formerly in dative singular, without the preposition : 
We ne niHgen alre coste halden Crist bibode. 
Old Eng. Homilies, p. 21. 
It is now usually associated with cost?.] Needes COStt, 
by all means ; necessarily. 
The night was schort, and faste by the daye 
That needes cost he moste himselven hyde. 
their 
COSt 2 (kost), v. t. ; pret. and pp. cost, ppr. cost- 
ing. [< ME. costen, < OF. coster, couster, F. coti- 
ter, cost, = Pr. Sp. costar = Pg. custar = It. cos- 
tare (= D. kostcn = OHG.*c/(osto, MHG. kosten, 
G. kosten = Dan. koste = Sw. Icel. kosta, after 
ceeding"at the time'it is taken Vr determined, as, for in- from the costa or midrib. Also costatovenosf. 
stance, an adjournment, in contradistinction to general cos tardt (kos'tard), n. [X ME. costard, an apple, 
, _ _j *i _ ._" !-,;., <m4-M Jr. ;.'..,. !..,.,/ urtflntifa wa ***! ^ t ''. 1 - . 4. ' 1\ 
orig. a 'ribbed' apple, a var. (accom. to -ard) 
of * costate (first found in later use), < ML. cos- 
tatus, ribbed, < L. costa, a rib: see cos ft, and 
cf. costate. Cf. also custard, ult. a var. of crus- 
tnte. See -ard. Hence costard- or costermonger 
and coster.] 1. An apple. 
The wilding, costard, then the well-known pom-water. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xviii. 
2. The head. [Humorous.] 
Take him on the costard with the hilts of thy sword, and 
then throw him into the malmsey-butt, ill the next room. 
Shah., Rich. III., i. 4. 
Also costerd. 
COStardmongert (kos'tard-mung"ger), w. Same 
as costermonger. 
Edg. Have you prepared the costardmanger ? 
Sight. Yes, and agreed for his basket of pears. 
B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, iv. 1. 
_j costs, 
. . _ to sue without liability to costs 
voluntarily pays to his attorney, and is therefore, if suc- 
cessful allowed to tax against his adversary. To count 
the COSt. See con(l. To One's COSt, with inconve- 
nience, suffering, or loss ; to one's detriment or sorrow : 
as, that some one had blundered, he found to his cost. 
What they had fondly wished, proved afterwards, to 
eir costs, over true. Knolles, Hist. Turks. 
Oh frail estate of human beings, 
And slippery hopes below ! 
Now to our cost your emptiness we know. 
Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, 1. 401. 
Syn. 1 and 2. Expense, Worth, etc. See price. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale (ed. Morris), 1.619. Cos t3 '(kost), ' w. [< L. costa, a rib, side: see 
coast.] 
Mad< 
If." A rib or side. 
like an auger, with which tail she wriggles 
Betwixt the costs ot a ship, and sinks it straight. 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, iii. 1. 
2. In lier., same as cottise. 
Though it had coste me catel [wealth]. 
Piers Plounnan (B), Pro!., 1. 204. 
There, there ! a diamond gone, cost me two thousand 
ducats in Frankfort ! Shak., M. of V., iii. 1. 
To have made a league of road among such rocks and 
precipices would have cost the state a year's revenue. 
Froude, Sketches, p. 78. 
2. In general, to require (as a thing or result to 
be desired) an expenditure of any specified 
thing, as time or labor ; be done or acquired at 
the expense of, as of pain or loss ; occasion or 
bring on (especially something evil) as a result. 
If it should cost my life this very night, 
I'll gae to the Tolbooth door wi' thee. 
Archie of Ca'field (Child's Ballads, VI. 91). 
He enticed 
Israel in Sittim, on their march from Nile, 
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. 
Milton, P. L., i. 414. 
Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives. 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 5. 
anat.: (a) [L.] A rib. (b) A border or side 
of something: specifically applied to the three 
borders or costee of the human scapula or shoul- 
der-blade the superior or coracoid, the poste- 
rior or vertebral, and the anterior or axillary. 
or ridges t 
lirection. (6) In bot., having one or more primary longi- 
tudinal veins or ribs, as a leaf, (c) Iii couch. , having ridges 
crossing the whorls and parallel with the mouth of the 
shell, as in univalves, for example Harpida. or radiating, 
as in bivalves, for example most Cctrdttda. Costate 
eggs, in rntom., those eggs which have raised ribs run- 
ing, giving it a ribbed ap- mm: from end to end. 
SI (a) In entom (1) A costatovenose (kos-ta-to-ve'nos), a. [< L. cos- 
or ridee on a '"'"*' " bbed ( see costate), + venosus, having 
n f <,,, i^ooot'a veins : see venous.'] Same as costiil-in-m-d. 
A Middle English form of coast. 
I>oun\v;tr<l ay in my i>]rivijL'. 
The ryver sydc <*'< :U,KI. 
A../II. <>f the llmf. 1. I.'i4. 
surface. (2) The anterior border of an insect's 
wing, extending from the base to the apex or COStayt, 
outer angle. Hence (3) The space on the 
wing bordering the anterior margin. (4) The 
costal or anterior vein. (6) In conch., the ridge 
or one of the ridges of a shell, (c) In Actino- 
zoa, an external vertical ridge marking the site 
of a septum within, (d) In Crinoidea, a row of 
plates succeeding the inferior or basal portion 
of the cup. 3. In bot., a rib or primary vein ; a 
midrib or midnerve of a leaf or frond. 
rf. White! It COStaget, . [ME., also coinage; < OF. costage, 
'and the best of his coustagc (= Pr. costutye ; ML. costagiiim), < cos- 
The President has paid dear for hi; 
has commonly cost him all his peace, ~ .,^^- . ... - - - - 
manly attributes. Emerson, Compensation, ter, cost: see cost 2 + -age.] Cost; expense. 
the names of all the joint adventurers in a mine, 
with the number of shares each holds. A share- 
holder who wishes to leave the company can do 
so by getting his name removed from the cost- 
book. Cost-book system, in( '" <'"-'' iniiiin : i. method 
of keeping mining accounts and managing a joint-stock 
company by which anyone of the adventurers fun with- 
draw on due notice, the accounts being kept In such a man- 
