Costeaning

( Mining.) The proce of discovering lodes of tin by sinking shafts in their vicinity, and drawing transversely to their supposed direction. Costel'late, a. Costated. Cos'ter, n . An abbreviated form of COSTER-MONGER, q. v. Cos'ter, LAURENS JANSZOON, B. at Haarlem, abt. 1370, and said, by the Dutch, to have invented the art of printing previous to Guttenberg. His countrymen make of this question of priority one of national importance, and, besides previous solemnities in honor of C. , his bronze statue by Royer, was erected in Haarlem, in 1866. Cost'-free, adv . or a . Free of cost or charge; as, to live cost-free, Cos'tigon, in Kentucky , a former post-office of Bath co. Cost ill a, in Colorado , a S. co.; area , abt. 4,800 sq. m. The main chain of the Rocky Mountains bounds it on the E., as partly does the Rio Grande del Norte on the W. The Rio Cost ill a intersects it; cap . San Luis; pop. in 1890, 3,500. Cost ill a, in Colorado , a post-office of Cost ill a co. Cos'tive, a. [From It. cos tip a to , cost i pare ; Lat constipo, const i patus - con , and stipo , to cram or stuff.] Bound in the body or bowels; constipated; as, a costive habit of body. -Close; reserved; impermeable. "Faster than his costive brain indites, Philo's quick hand in flowing letters writes." - Prior . Cos'tively, adv . With costivene . Cos'tivene , n . State of being costive; obstruction of the bowels; constipation.