costal

[Lat. cost ( a ), and Eng., ., suff.-al.] Anat.: Pertaining to or connected with the coste IMG:content-1059.png:[blocks in formation] broil costeletts or roast an egg." North : Life of Lord Guilford , ii. 270. (Davies.) cost-ěl-lāte, a. [As if from a Lat. costella , dim in. of costa a rib.] Bot.: Finely ribbed or costate. *cost-er (1), s. [Low Lat. costura , the same as cultura , from cultus , pa. par. of colo =to cultivate.] A piece of arable land. ( Scotch .) "Item, ane coster of land with the pertinent is, in the territorie off Stanypethe." - Acts Ja. VI., 1621 (ed. 1814), p. 646.