Part 2468

<hw>Cos"tard*mon`ger</hw> <tt>(-m?n`g?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A costermonger.</def>

<h1>Costate kstt, Costated</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw><hw>Cos"tate</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?t)</tt>, <hw>Cos"ta*ted</hw> <tt>(-t?-t?d)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>costatus</ets>, fr. <ets>costa</ets> rib.]</ety> <def>Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; <fld>(Bot.)</fld> having one or more longitudinal ribs.</def>

<h1>Costean</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tean`</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?n`)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[Cornish <ets>cothas</ets> dropped + <ets>stean</ets> tin.]</ety> <def>To search after lodes. See <er>Costeaning</er>.</def>

<h1>Costeaning</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tean`ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Costellate</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos*tel"late</hw> <tt>(k?s-t?l"l?t)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>costa</ets> rib.]</ety> <def>Finely ribbed or costated.</def>

<h1>Coster</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"ter</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><ety>[Abbrev. of <ets>costermonger</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.</def>

<h1>Costermonger</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"ter*mon`ger</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?r-m?n`g?r)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Costard</er>.]</ety> <def>An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>costardmonger</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Costiferous</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos*tif"er*ous</hw> <tt>(k?s-t?f"?r-?s)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Costa</ets> + <ets>-ferous</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebr\'91.</def>

<h1>Costive</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tive</hw> <tt>(k?s"t?v)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>costev<?/</ets>, p. p. of <ets>costever</ets>, F. <ets>constiper</ets>, L. <ets>constipare</ets> to press closely together, to cram; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>stipare</ets> to press together, cram. See <er>Stipulate</er>, <er>Stiff</er>, and cf. <er>Constipate</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Reserved; formal; close; cold.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "A <i>costive</i> brain." <i>Prior</i>. "<i>Costive</i> of laughter." <i>B. Jonson</i>.

<blockquote>You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being <b>costive</b>. <i>Lord Chesterfield.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Clay in dry seasons is <b>costive</b>, hardening with the sun and wind. <i>Mortimer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Costively</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a costive manner.</def>

<h1>Costiveness</h1> <Xpage=329>

<hw>Cos"tive*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Inability to express one's self; stiffness.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A reverend disputant of the same <b>costiveness</b> in public elocution with myself. <i>Wakefield.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Costless</h1> <Xpage=329>