Cost

a., ( pret. and imp. COST.) [Ger. and Du. kosten; Lat. cons to; It. cost are; O. Fr. couster.] To be bought for; to be had at the price of; to be required to be laid out, given, bestowed, or employed; as, good living costs money. "My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten nights' watching.. Shaks. a pang. "Perhaps, 'twill cost a sigh, a tear." - Barbauld. To cost one dear. To involve a heavy outlay of time or trouble. -n. [Ger. kosten ; Dan. and Swed, kost ; O. Fr. coust . See the verb.] That which a thing stands one in; that which is paid or charged for anything; the price, value, or equivalent of a thing purchased; charge; expense; expenditure; as, the cost of a journey. "And wilt thou... put poor nature to such cost?"-Crashaw. -Luxury; sumptuousne ; extravagance; as, a thing of IMG:content-0387.png:[blocks in formation] -pl. ( Law .) The expenses to which parties are put in the prosecution and defending of actions. Costs are to be considered either as between attorney and client, i . e., the expenses and fees which the attorney is entitled to recover from his client; or as between party and party, i. e., that portion of the expenses to which a succe ful party has been put in his suit, which he is entitled, in certain cases, to recover from the unsucce ful one.