cost3 (kost)

[L. costa, a rib, side: see coast.] 1. A rib or side. Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles Betwixt the costs of a ship, and sinks it straight. B. Jonson, Staple of News, iii. 1. Thare fore I telle yow schorttely, how a man may goon with lytel costage and schortte tyme. Mandeville , Travels, p. 125. For more solempne in euery mannes syght This feste was, and gretter of costage , Than was the reuel of hir mariage. Chaucer, Clerk's Tale (ed. Skeat), 1. 1126. costal (kos'tal), a. [=F. Sp. Pg. costal = It.co8 tale, Veins... forming a single costal row of long areole. Syn. Fil., p. 523. Costal angle, in entom., the tip of the wing. - Costal area, in entom., a part of the wing or tegminum bordering the anterior margin, and extending to the subcostal vein. In many of the Orthoptera it has a different texture and appearance from the rest of the wing. - Costal cartilage. See cartilage. Costal cells, in entom., the cells nearest the costa, generally numbered from the base of the wing outward. One of them IMG:content-1393.jpg:[graphic] is frequently opaque, and is then called the pterostigma. But many authors include in the term costal only one or more cells between the pterostigma and the base of the Wing of Bee, showing costa, or costal vein, and subcostal vein, b. The wing.- Costal margin, in entom., the costa or anterior margin of the wing. - Costal plate, in Che lonia, one of a series of expanded dermal plates of bone, ankylosed with a rib, forming a part of the carapace. See cut under Chelonia. - Costal proce es, in ornith.: (a) The unciform proce es given off by many ribs, overlapping succeeding ribs. (b) Certain parts of the sternum with which the ribs articulate. They are very prominent in pa erine birds. See cut under carinate. - Costal vein, in entom., a large longitudinal vein or rib nearly parallel to, and frequently touching, the anterior margin, but in the Odonata separated from it by the marginal vein. inclosed by a and b is the costal cell pace costally (kos'tal-i), adv. In entom.: (a) Toward the costa or front margin of the wing: as, a band produced costally. (b) Over the costal vein: as, a line costally angulated. costal-nerved (kos'tal-nėrvd), a. In bot., having the secondary nerves of the leaf springing from the costa or midrib. Also cost a to venose. costardt (kos'tärd), n. [ The wilding, costard, then the well-known pom-water. Drayton, Polyolbion, xviii. 2. The head. [Humorous.] Take him on the costard with the hilts of thy sword, and then throw him into the malmsey-butt, in the next room. Shak ., Rich. III., i. 4. costard mon gert (kos'tärd-mung gėr), n. Same as costermonger . Also costerd . Edg. Have you prepared the costardmonger ? Night . Yes, and agreed for his basket of pears. B. Jonson , Bartholomew Fair, iv. 1. [ 2. In her ., same as cottise . cost4+ (kost), n. [M [ME. cooste , costmary ; = Pr. cost = kushth : see costmary.] Costmary. κόστος , an aromatic plant, kost , kust , Hind. costa (kos'tä), n.; pl. costæ (-tē). [NL., costa , a rib, a side: see costs and coast , n.] 1. In an at.: ( a ) [L.) A rib. ( b ) A border or side of something: specifically applied to the three ducats in Frankfort! Shak ., M. of V., iii. 1. To have made a league of road among such rocks and precipices would have cost the state a year's revenue. Froude , Sketches, p. 78. 2. In general, to require (as a thing or result to be desired) an expenditure of any specified thing, as time or labor; be done or acquired at the expense of, as of pain or lo ; occasion or bring on (especially something evil) as a result. If it should cost my life this very night, I'll gae to the Tolbooth door wi' thee. der-blade-the superior or coracoid, the posterior or vertebral, and the anterior or axillary. (c) A ridge on something, giving it a ribbed ap pearance.-2. In zoöl.: (a) In entom.: (1) A broad, elevated longitudinal line or ridge on a surface. (2) The anterior border of an insect's wing, extending from the base to the apex or outer angle. Hence - (3) The space on the wing bordering the anterior margin. (4) The costal or anterior vein. ( b ) In conch., the ridge or one of the ridges of a shell. (c) In Actino zoa, an external vertical ridge marking the site of a septum within. (d) In Crinoidea, a row of plates succeeding the inferior or basal portion of the cup.-3. In bot., a rib or primary vein; a midrib or midnerve of a leaf or frond. cost at us, ribbed, ribbed. Specifically-(a) In entom., having several broad elevated lines or ridges extending in a longitudinal direction. ( b ) In bot., having one or more primary longitudinal veins or ribs, as a leaf. (c) In conch., having ridges cro ing the whorls and parallel with the mouth of the shell, as in univalves, for example Harpide, or radiating, as in bivalves, for example most Cardiida. - Costate eggs, in entom., those eggs which have raised ribs running from end to end.