Part 2467

<blockquote>One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper <b>cost</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>At less <b>cost</b> of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.</def>

<blockquote>I know thy trains, Though dearly to my <b>cost</b>, thy gins and toils. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Expenses incurred in litigation.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Costs</i> in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party.</note>

<cs><col>Bill of costs</col>. <cd>See under <er>Bill</er>.</cd> -- <col>Cost free</col>, <cd>without outlay or expense. "Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live <i>cost free</i> and to gather scraps of knowledge."</cd></cs>

<i>Thackeray.</i>

<h1>Costa</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"ta</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., rib. See <er>Coast</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A rib of an animal or a human being.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.</def>

<h1>Costage</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cost"age</hw> <tt>(k?st"?j; 115)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>coustage</ets>.]</ety> <def>Expense; cost.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Costal</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tal</hw> <tt>(k?s"t<it>a</it>l)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>costal</ets>. See <er>Costa</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; <as>as, <ex>costal</ex> nerves</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Bot. & Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Relating to a costa, or rib.</def>

<cs><col>Costal cartilage</col>. <cd>See <er>Cartilage</er>, and <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Thorax</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Costal-nerved</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tal-nerved`</hw> <tt>(k?s"t<it>a</it>l-n?rvd`)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having the nerves spring from the midrib.</def>

<h1>Costard</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tard</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?rd)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. fr. OF. <ets>coste</ets> rib, side, F. <ets>c\'93te</ets>, and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its sides. See <er>Coast</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An apple, large and round like the head.</def>

<blockquote>Some [apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your <b>costards</b> and pomewaters. <i>Muffett.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The head; -- used contemptuously.</def>

<blockquote>Try whether your <b>costard</b> or my bat be the harder. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Costardmonger</h1> <Xpage=329>