CPage 659
- 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.
- 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.