coast (2)

[A contraction of ale - cost (q. v.).] A plant, Tan acetum Balsam it a. ( Lawson's Country Housewife's Garden, 1637.) ( Britten & Holland.) coast, *coste, *costey, v. i. & t. [O. Fr. costeer, costoier, costier; It.cost egg i are.] [COAST, 8.] IMG:content-0025.png:[blocks in formation] coasting upon the South-Sea, Present State of Ireland. .. "-Spenser: (2) Of ships : Ve els employed in the coasting "Much of the richest merchandise which reached London was imported in coasters from Antwerp."- Froude : Hist. Eng ., ch. xii. 2. An inhabitant of the sea-coast. "Sir, if you had been present, you never saw nor heard any, or English man, or other coaster , or riverman or islander, use more malicious inventions, Pa enger of Benvenuto, 1612. ( Nares .) " -The IMG:content-0026.png:[blocks in formation] coast. (2) The act of pursuing a coasting-trade. (3) (COAST, v. t., A. I. 4.) *II. Gardening : (See extract.) "Coasting, upon the transplanting of a tree, is when the same side of the tree is plac'd to the south-east, ., as formerly grew that way, where it stood before." Phillips .