cost (2), coste (1), coust

[O. Fr. cost, coust; Ger., Dut., Sw., & Dan. kost; Sp. cos to, costa; Ital. cos to; O. H. Ger. chosta.] [Cost, v.] A. Ordinary Language: I. Literally: 1. The price, value, or amount paid or charged for any commodity bought or taken in barter. "In the cost of wheat there has been very little change." -Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. iii. 2. Expense, charge; money expended on the carrying out of anything. "He schal hau a soper at your alther cost." *3. Value, worth. Chaucer: C. Т. , 801. "Hueran me zet ofte grat cost."-Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 176. 4. The sustenance given to a servant, as distinct from money; as, I got so much money in wages. besides my cost . (Scotch.) II. Figuratively : 1. The penalty paid for any act committed, or any duty omitted. 2. Lo , detriment, injury, pain, or trouble. "I know thy trains Though dearly to my cost , thy ginns, and toyls." Milton : Samson Agonistes. bốil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, 1139 *3. Luxury, sumptuousne , great expense. "Let foreign princes vainly boast The rude effects of pride, and cost ."- Waller . B. Law: ( Generally in plural): The amount of charges incurred by the gainer in a suit, and awarded against and to be paid by the party losing. Crabb thus discriminates between cost , expense , price, and charge: "The cost is what a thing costs which is actually laid out; the price is that which or occasions to be laid out; the expense is that a thing may fetch or cause to be laid out; the charge is that which is required to be laid out. As a cost commonly comprehends an expense , the terms are on various occasions used indifferently for each other: we speak of counting the cost or counting the expense of doing anything; at a great cost or at a great expense : on the other hand, of venturing to do a thing to one's cost , of growing wise at other people's expense. The cost and the price have expense and the charge depend on the option of the respect to the thing and its supposed value: the persons. registered on such a model or scheme. Cost - book mining company: A mining company the cost or expenditure on any undertaking. †cost-sheet, s . A table or statement showing [COAST.] cost (3), *coste (2), s. [O. Fr. coste ; Lat. costa.] IMG:content-1057.png:[blocks in formation] ". "And this slight discontent, men say, Cost blood upon another day." Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel, iv. 28. bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-1058.png:[blocks in formation] (2) Comparative : (a) Of Vertebrates : The ribs. (b) Of Crinoids: The rows of plates which succeed the inferior or basal portion of the cup. (3) Of corals : The vertical ridges on the outer surface of the theca; they mark the position of the septa within. ( Nicholson .) 2. Bot .: The midrib of a leaf. [O. Fr. costage , coustage ; Low Lat. costagium , from cost-age, *coust-age, *kost-age (age as Ig), s. Lat.cons to=to cost.] Expense, charge, cost. "A man may goon with lytel costage , and schortte tyme." -Maundeville, p. 125.