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<hw>Coss</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>cosa</ets>.]</ety> <def>A thing (only in phrase below).</def>

<cs><col>Rule of Coss</col>, <cd>an old name for <i>Algebra</i>. <ety>[It. <i>regola di cosa</i> rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the <i>cosa</i>, or the thing.]</ety></cd></cs>

<h1>Cossack</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"sack</hw> <tt>(k?s"s?k)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Russ. <ets>kozak'</ets>, <ets>kazak'</ets>: cf. Turk. <ets>kaz<?/k</ets>.]</ety> <def>One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.</def>

<h1>Cossas</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"sas</hw> <tt>(k?s"s?s)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.</def>

<h1>Cosset</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"set</hw> <tt>(k?s"s?t)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. AS. <ets>cotsetla</ets> cottager, G. <ets>kossat</ets>, <ets>kothsasse</ets>, fr. <ets>kot</ets>, <ets>koth</ets> E. (<ets>cot</ets>) hut, and cf. also E. <ets>cade</ets>, <ets>a.</ets>, <ets>cot</ets> a cade lamb.]</ety> <def>A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.</def>

<h1>Cosset</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"set</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To treat as a pet; to fondle.</def>

<blockquote>She was <b>cosseted</b> and posseted and prayed over and made much of. <i>O. W. Holmes.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Cossic kssk, Cossical</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw><hw>Cos"sic</hw> <tt>(k?s"s?k)</tt>, <hw>Cos"sic*al</hw> <tt>(-s?-k<it>a</it>l)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[It. <ets>cossico</ets>. See 2d <er>Coss</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or relating to algebra; <as>as, <ex>cossic</ex> numbers, or the <ex>cossic</def></ex> art</as>. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Art of numbers <i>cossical</i>."

<i>Digges (1579).</i>

<h1>Cost</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cost</hw> <tt>(k?st; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>costa</ets> rib. See <er>Coast</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A rib; a side; a region or coast.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Piers Plowman.</i>

<blockquote>Betwixt the <b>costs</b> of a ship. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>See <er>Cottise</er>.</def>

<h1>Cost</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cost</hw> <tt>(k?st; 115)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Cost</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Costing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>coster</ets>, <ets>couster</ets>, F. <ets>co<?/ter</ets>, fr. L. <ets>constare</ets> to stand at, to cost; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>stare</ets> to stand. See <er>Stand</er>, and cf. <er>Constant</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, the ticket <ex>cost</ex> a dollar; the effort <ex>cost</ex> his life.</as></def>

<blockquote>A d'amond gone, <b>cost</b> me two thousand ducats. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Though it <b>cost</b> me ten nights' watchings. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.</def>

<blockquote>To do him wanton rites, which<b>cost</b> them woe. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To cost dear</col>, <cd>to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.</cd></cs>

<h1>Cost</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cost</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>cost</ets>, F. <ets>co<?/t</ets>. See <er>Cost</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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 benefitt.</def>