costoxiphoid 
costoxiphoid (kos-to-zif'oid), a. [< L. eosta, a 
rib, + Gr. ^iijiocii^f, ensif orm : see xiphoid.] In 
(mat., pertaining to costal cartilage and to the 
xiphoid process of the sternum : as, a costoxiph- 
oid articulation. 
costredt, Same as costrel. 
costrel (kos'trel), n. [Also costril, < ME. cos- 
trel, costrelle, costril, also costret, costred, a 
drinking-cup or flask (ML. costrellus, costerel- 
lum), < W. costrel, a cup, flagon.] A flask, 
flagon, or bottle ; specifically, such a vessel of 
Costrels. 
I, old fonn, of leather ; a. old form, of earthenware ; 3. modern form 
(West of England), of earthenware. 
leather, wood, or earthenware, often of a flat- 
tened form, and generally with ears by which 
it may be suspended, used by British laborers 
in harvest-time. Sometimes called pilgrim's 
bottle. 
Therwithal a costrel taketh he tho, 
And seyde, " Hereof a draught or two 
Gif hym to drynke." 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 2666. 
A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore 
The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. 
Tennyson, Geraint. 
costrellt, costrellet, costrilt, Obsolete 
forms of costrel. 
COSt-sheet (kdst'shet), n. A statement showing 
the expense of any undertaking. 
costume^, An obsolete form of custom. 
costume 2 (kos-tum' or kos'tum), n. [= D. kos- 
tuunft = G. costum = Dau. kostume, < F. costume 
(the orig. F. word being coutume) =Pr. costum, 
costuma, (. It. costuma = OSp. costume = Cat. 
costum = Pg. costume (cf. Sp. costumbre), < ML. 
costuma, ult. < L. consuetudo (-din-), custom: see 
custom, which is a doublet of costume.'} 1. Cus- 
tom or usage with respect to place and time, 
as represented in art or literature ; distinctive 
character or habit in action, appearance, dress, 
etc. ; hence, keeping or congruity in represen- 
tation. [This is the sense in which the word 
was first used in English, in the latter part of 
the eighteenth century.] 
Sergius Paulus wears a crown of laurel : this is hardly 
reconcileable to strict propriety, and to the costume, of 
which Raffaele was in general a good observer. 
Sir J. Reynolds, Discourse 12. 
The cruzado was not current, as it should seem, at Ven- 
ice, though it certainly was in England at the time of 
Shakespeare, who has here indulged his usual practice of 
departing from national costutne. 
Dyce, 111. of Shakespeare, II. 270. 
2. Mode of dressing ; external dress. Specifically 
(a) An established mode or custom in dress ; the style of 
dress peculiar to a people, tribe, or nation, to a particular 
period, or to a particular character, profession, or class of 
people. (6) A complete dress assumed for a special occa- 
sion, and differing from the dress of every-day life : as, a 
court co8t^tme (the dress required to be worn by a person 
who is presented at court), (c) A complete outer dress 
for a woman, especially one made of the same material 
throughout : as, a walking-cos<Mi. 
All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque. It is only 
the serious eye peering from and the sincere life passed 
within it, which restrain laughter and consecrate the cos- 
tume of any people. Thoreau, Walden, p. 29. 
costume 2 (kos-tum'), v. t.: pret. and pp. eos- 
twned, ppr. costuming. [\ costume 2 , n. ; = F. 
costumer, etc.] 1. To dress; furnish with a 
costume; provide appropriate dress for: as, to 
costume a play; " costumed in black," Charlotte 
Bronte, Jane Eyre, xvii. 2. Reflexively, to put 
an unusual dress on ; dress for a special occa- 
sion. 
Attic maidens in procession, or costuming them-selee* 
therefor. C. 0. Miiller, Manual of Archseol. (trans.), 96. 
costumer (kos-tu'mer), n. One who prepares 
or arranges costumes, as for theaters, fancy 
balls, etc. ; one who deals in costumes. 
costumic (kos-tu'mik), a. [< costume 2 + -to.] 
Pertaining to costume or dress ; in accordance 
with the prevailing mode of dress. [Rare.] 
A noble painting of Charles II. on horseback, in costu- 
mic armour. Quoted in .V. ami Q., 7th ser., I. 457. 
1292 
COStus-root (kos'tus-rot), n. [< Costus, NL. 
specific name from native name, + root."] The 
root of Saussurea Lappa (Aucklandia Costus), a 
composite plant of Cashmere. It is collected in 
enormous quantities for the Chinese market, and is used 
largely as a medicine in India. It has a pungent aromat- 
ic taste, and an odor like that of orris-root. 
cosubordinate (ko-sub-6r'di-nat), a. [< co- 1 
+ subordinate.] Equally subordinate ; equiva- 
lent as suborders: as, cosubordinate groups in 
zoology. Mivart. 
COSUpreme (ko-su-prem'), a. and n. [< co- 1 -f 
supreme.] I. a. Equally supreme. 
II. . A partaker of supremacy. 
The phcenix and the dove, 
Co-svpreiiwif and stars of love. 
Shak., The Phcenix and Turtle, 1. 51. 
cosurety (ko-shor'ti), n. ; pi. cosureties (-tiz). 
[< co- 1 + surety.] One who is surety with an- 
other or others. 
cosy, a. and n. See cozy. 
COSynt, n. and a. Middle English for eosin, now 
cousin*. 
cot 1 (kot), . [Intimately connected with cote 1 , 
a different form, differently used, but closely 
related : (1) Co* 1 , < ME. cot, kot, a cot, cottage, 
chamber, cell (cott for cote once in comp. schep- 
cott, a sheep-cote), < AS. cot, neut., pi. cote, a 
cot, cottage, a chamber (used in Mat. xxi. 13 
to translate L. spelunca, a den, sc. of thieves), 
= ONorth. cot, cott, neut., a cot, a chamber, = 
MD. D. hot = MLG. LG. kot = MG. kot (> G. 
kot, koth) = Icel. OSw. ODan. kot, a cot, hut. 
(2) Cote 1 , formerly sometimes also coat, < ME. 
cote, a cot, cottage, a chamber, often in comp., 
fold, coop, pen, sty (see dove-cote, hen-cote, 
sheep-cote, swine-cote), < AS. cote, fern., pi. cotew, 
a cot, cottage, more frequently with umlaut 
(o > y), cyte, a cot, cottage, chamber, cell, = 
MD. fcote = MLG. fcote, kotte, kate, LG. kote, 
kate = MG. kote ( > G. kote) = Icel. ky to, kytra, a 
cot, hut. Coft and cote 1 are thus respectively 
neut. and fern, forms of the same word. Hence 
(from E.) Gael, cot = W. cwt, a cot; and (from 
Teut.) ML. cota, a cot, cotagium, E. cottage: 
OBulg. kotici, a cell ; also (with change of 
meaning like that in cassock and chasuble, both 
ult. < L. easa, a cottage), OF. cote, etc., a coat, 
> ME. rote, E. coat : see cote 2 and coat 2 . The 
sense of 'a small bed' is modern. Hence ult. 
cottage, cotter 1 , etc.] 1. A small house; a cot- 
tage ; a hut ; a mean habitation. 
No trust in brass, no trust in marble walls ; 
Poor cots are e'en as safe as princes' halls. 
Quarles, Emblems, iii. 12. 
Behold the cot where thrives the industrious swain, 
Source of his pride, his pleasure, and his gain. Crabbe. 
2. A small bed or crib for a child to sleep in ; 
also, a portable bed formed of canvas, webbing, 
or other material fastened to a light frame, of- 
ten made cross-legged to permit folding up. 
Also called cot-bed. 
cote-hardie 
COta (ko'ta), n. ; pi. cotce (-te). [ML. : see cote 2 , 
coat 2 .] 1. A coat. 2f. The filibeg. 
cotabulatet (ko-tab'u-lat), v. t. [< co-i + tabu- 
late.] Same as confabulate. 
cotse, n. Plural of cote. 
COtaget, n. An obsolete spelling of cottage. 
Cotalpa (ko-tal'pa), n. [NL.] A genus of 
lamellicorii beetles, of the family Scarabwidie. 
C 
cotangent. 
In the pleasant little trim new nursery ... is the 
mother, glaring over the cot where the little, soft, round 
cheeks are pillowed. Thackeray, Philip, xxxvi. 
3. Naut., a swinging bed or hammock of canvas, 
stiffened by a wooden frame, and having up- 
right sides of canvas to protect the sleeper, it 
is slung on lanyards called "clues," and secured to hooks 
in the carlines or deck-beams. It differs from the ham- 
mock in the frame and upright sides, and in not bein<: ca- 
pable of being rolled up and stowed in the nettings. It is 
now rarely used except in the sick-bay aboard a man-of- 
war, but was very common in crowded quarters for officers 
in the American navy up to 1865. 
4. A leather cover for a finger, used to protect 
the finger when it is injured or sore, or to shield 
it from injury, as in dissecting ; a finger-stall. 
5. A sheath or sleeve, as the clothing for a 
drawing-roller in a spinning-frame. 
COt 2 (kot), n. [E. dial., formerly also cote; cf . cot- 
ton 2 . Hence co tgare.] 1. Refuse wool. Knight; 
HalUwell. 2. A fleece of wool matted toge- 
ther; a lock of wool or hair clung together. 
Wedgwood. 
cot 3 (kot), n. [< Ir. cot, a small boat.] A lit- 
tle boat. [Irish.] 
Cymochles of her questioned 
Both what she was, and what that usage ment, 
"Which in her cott she daily practized? 
" Vaine man " (saide she), . . . 
My little boat can safely passe this perilous bourne. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 9. 
C0t 4 t (kot), n. [Abbr. from cotquean.] An ef- 
feminate person. 
Some may think it below our hero to stoop to such a 
mean employment, as the poet has here enjoined him, of 
holding the candle ; and that it looks too much like a citi- 
zen, or a cot, as the women call it. Hist. Tom Thumb. 
cot. An abbreviation of cotangent. 
Goldsmith-beetle (Coialfa langera. 
a, imago; .'', ptip.i ; (,l:irva. (All natural size.) 
Their technical characters are : 10-jointed antennae ; the 
clypeus sutured from the front ; 'the thorax margined at 
the base ; the elytra not margined ; and the tarsal claws 
unequal. C. laniyera, the goldsmith-beetle of the eastern 
United States, is a light-yellow species nearly an inch long. 
cotangent (ko-tan'jeut), . [< co- 2 + tanaent. A 
word coined by the English mathematician Ed- 
mund Gunter about 1620.] In trigonom., the tan- 
gent of the complement of 
a given arc or angle . Ab- 
breviated cot. See the fig- 
ure Cotangent at a close- 
point of an algebraical sur- 
face, the tangent of the simple 
branch of the curve of intersec- 
tion of the surface with its tan- 
gent plane at the close-point. 
cotarnine (ko-tar'nin), n. 
[Transposed from narco- 
tine.] An organic base AC to AH, is the cotangent : 
1C* TI "\TI~l -I- TT C\\ or, DC being taken as unity. 
(^12 M 13 JN O3 B * U ' it is the line DL. 
formed from narcotine 
by the action of oxidizing agents, as manga- 
nese dioxid. It is nonvolatile, and has a bitter 
taste and faintly alkaline reaction. 
cot-bed (kot'bed), n. Same as co* 1 , 2. 
COtbetty (kot'bet"i), . ; pi. cotbetties (-iz). [< 
cot (as in cotquean) + betty.] A man who med- 
dles with the domestic affairs of women ; a 
betty. [U. S.] 
cote 1 (kot), n. [< ME. cote, < AS. cote : see fur- 
ther under cot 1 .] If. A hut ; a little house ; a 
cottage: same as cot 1 , 1. 
Albeit a cote in our language is a little slight-built coun- 
try habitation. 
Ventegan, Rest, of Decayed Intelligence, viii. 
2. A sheepfold. 
Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour : and 
he made himself . . . stalls for all manner of beasts, and 
cotes for Hocks. 2 Chron. xxxii. 2s. 
The folded flocks penn'd in their wattled cotes. 
Milton, Camus, 1. 344. 
[In this sense now used chiefly in composition, 
as do>e-cote, hen-cote, sheep-cote, swine-cote, etc.] 
C0te 2 t, . A former spelling of coat 2 . 
C0te 3 t (kot), v. t. [< F. cdtoyer, go by the side 
of, < OF. costoier, > also E. coast : see coast, r.] 
To pass on one side of ; pass by ; pass. 
We coted them on the way ; and hither are they coming. 
Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 
cote 3 t, . [< cote 3 , v.] The act of passing by; 
a going by. Dray ton. 
C0te 4 t (kot), v. t. [< F. coter, < OF. quoter, > E. 
quote, q. v.] To quote. 
The text is throughout coted in the margin. I'tiatt, Pref . 
Thou art come . . . from coting of ye scriptures, to 
courting with Ladies. 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 320. 
C0te 6 t, An obsolete form of cot 2 . 
cote-a-pyet, . See cmirtepy. 
cote-armourt, cote-annuret, Obsolete forms 
of coat-armor. 
COte-hardiet, n. [OF.] A garment worn by 
both sexes throughout the fourteenth century. 
That of the men corresponded nearly to the cassock ; th.it 
of the women was generally cut somewhat low in the neck, 
fitting the body closely above the waist, but very full and 
long in the skirt. The sleeves varied greatly in fashion ; 
those worn by the women were at first close-fitting and but- 
toned ; but toward 1380 the sleeves of the cote-hardie for 
either sex were loose and long. 
They [streamers from the elbow] first appear as narrow 
elongations from the sleeve of the upper-tunic or colf- 
Aorau. 
Booke o/ Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. IDS, note. 
