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[ME., also coustage; Rom, of the Rose, 1. 134. [ book.] In Cornish mining, a book containing the names of all the joint adventurers in a mine, with the number of shares each holds. A shareholder who wishes to leave the company can do so by getting his name removed from the cost book. Cost-book system, in Cornish mining, a method of keeping mining accounts and managing a joint-stock company, by which any one of the adventurers can withdraw on due notice, the accounts being kept in such a man costa or ridge: as, a cost i form interspace be- tween str iæ. cost if oust, a . cost i let, n. [ME., coustille , a short sword, 2. Lavish; extravagant. [Rare.] a sort of dagger or poniard: see coistril .] A dagger; a poniard. Wyth a costile which in hys sleffe gan hold that his Ies- seron failed and breke to. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4334. [ME. costile- yre : see costile .] cost i spinal (kos-ti-spinal), a. [NL. costispi- nalis.] In an at . , of or pertaining to the ribs and spinal column; cos to vertebral. Coues . costive (kos'tiv), a . [Early mod. E. costyfe ; costeve , i. e., costevé (mod. F. restored con- IMG:content-1395.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1396.png:[blocks in formation] Virtue is of so little regard in these costermonger's times, that true valour is turned bearherd. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. And then he'll rail, like a rude costermonger , That school-boys had couzened of his apples. IMG:content-1397.png:[blocks in formation] Blood-boyling Yew, and costiue Mi el toe: With yce-cold Mandrake, and a many mo Such fatall plants. costively (kos'tiv-li), adv . With costivene . costivene (kos'tiv-nes), n. 1. A morbid re- tention of fecal matter in the bowels. See con- stipa tion . Costivene has ill effects, and is hard to be dealt with by physick. Locke , Education. 2. Figuratively, slowne in action; especially, slowne or difficulty in giving forth or utter- ing, in a general sense; closene ; reticence. [Obsolete or archaic.] In the literary and philosophical society at Manchester was once a reverend disputant of the same costivene in costle (kôst'les), a. [= D. kosteloos ; cost2 , n., + -le .] Costing nothing; not involving expense. also in drunkelew , q. v.] Costly; sumptuous. Chaucer . And at the west dore of Powles was made a costlew pa- gent, renning wyn, red claret and whit, all the day of the Arnold's Chronicle (1502), p. xli. marriage. costline (kôst'li-nes), n. The character or fact of being costly; expensivene ; richne ; great cost or expense; sumptuousne . Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costline ! Though not with curious costline , yet with cleanly sufficiency, it entertained me. costly (kôst'li), a. [ costily , for costely (= D. kostelijk = MHG. kostelich , G. köstlich = Dan. kostelig = Sw. kostlig = Norw. kosteleg = Icel. kostligr , kostuligr ); cost2 + -ly1.] 1. Of great price; acquired, done, or practised at much cost, as of money, time, trouble, etc.; ex- pensive; rich; occasioning great expense or expenditure: as, a costly habit; costly furniture; costly vices. Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly. In itself the distinction between the affirmative and the negative is a step perhaps the most costly in effort of any that the human mind is summoned to take. De Quincey , Hero dot us. cos to transverse (kos"tō-trans-vers'), a . [L. costa, a rib, + trans versus , transverse.] an at ., pertaining to a rib and to the transverse proce of a vertebra: applied to the interos- seo us ligaments connecting these parts. cos to vertebral (kos-to-vėr'tē-bral), a . costa , a rib, + vertebra , a joint, vertebra, + -al.] In an at . , pertaining to a rib and to the body of a vertebra: applied to the stel- late ligaments connecting these parts. Also cos to central. Therwithal a costrel taketh he tho, And seyde, "Hereof a draught or two Gif hym to drynke." IMG:content-1398.jpg:[blocks in formation] costus-root (kos'tus-röt), n. [ Costus , NL. cot a (kō'tä), n .; pl. cotæ (-tē). [ML.: see cote2 , specific name from native name, + root .] The coat2 .] 1. A coat.-21. The filibeg. root of Sau urea Lappa ( Auckland i a Costus ), a cotabulatet (kō-tab'ū-lāt), v. t. [ tabu- composite plant of Cashmere. It is collected in late .] Same as con tabulate . lent as suborders: as, cosubordinate groups in zoölogy. Mivart . cosupreme (kō-su-prēm'), a . and n. [ The phœnix and the dove, Co-supremes and stars of love. Shak ., The Phœnix and Turtle, 1. 51. cosurety (kō-shörʼti), n.; pl. cosureties (-tiz). [ surety .] One who is surety with an- other or others. cosy, a . and n. See cozy . cosynt, n. and a. Middle English for cos in , now cousin1 . cot1 (kot), n. [Intimately connected with cote1 , a different form, differently used, but closely related: (1) Cot1 , cot , kot , a cot, cottage, chamber, cell ( cott for cote once in comp. schep- cott , a sheep-cote), cot , neut., pl. cotu , a cot, cottage, a chamber (used in Mat. xxi. 13 to translate L. spelunca , a den, sc. of thieves), = ONorth. cot , cott , neut., a cot, a chamber, = MD. D. kot = MLG. LG. kot = MG. kot (> G. kot , koth ) = Icel. OSw. ODan. kot , a cot, hut. (2) Cotel , formerly sometimes also coat , cote , a cot, cottage, a chamber, often in comp., fold, coop, pen, sty (see dove-cote, hen-cote, sheep-cote, swine - cote ), AS.cote , fem., pl. cotan , A youth, that, following with a costrel , bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. IMG:content-1399.jpg:[graphic] (o> y), cyte, a cot, cottage, chamber, cell, = MD. kote = MLG. kote , kotte , kate , LG. kote , kate = MG. kote (> G. kote ) = Icel. kyta , kytra , a cot, hut. Cot1 and cotel are thus respectively neut. and fem. forms of the same word. Hence (from E.) Gael. cot = W. cwt , a cot; and (from Teut.) ML. cot a, a cot, cotagium , E. cottage: OBulg. kotici, a cell; also (with change of meaning like that in ca ock and chasuble , both ult. casa , a cottage), OF. cote , etc., a coat, > ME. cote, E. coat: see cote2 and coat2 . The sense of 'a small bed' is modern. Hence ult. cottage, cotter1 , etc.] 1. A small house; a cot- tage; a hut; a mean habitation. No trust in bra , no trust in marble walls; Poor cots are e'en as safe as princes' halls. IMG:content-1400.png:[blocks in formation] cotangent (kō-tan ́jent), n . [ co -2 + tangent . A word coined by the English mathematician Ed- mund Gunter about 1620.] In trigonom ., the tan- gent of the complement of a given arc or angle. Ab- breviated cot . See the fig- ure. Cotangent at a close- point of an algebraical sur- face, the tangent of the simple branch of the curve of inter sec- tion of the surface with its tan- gent plane at the close-point. cotarnine (kō-tär'nin), [T [Transposed from narco- tine .] An organic base Behold the cot where thrives the industrious swain, Source of his pride, his pleasure, and his gain. Crabbe . 2. A small bed or crib for a child to sleep in; also, a portable bed formed of canvas, webbing, or other material fastened to a light frame, of- ten made cro -legged to permit folding up. Also called cot - bed . In the pleasant little trim new nursery is the mother, glaring over the cot where the little, soft, round cheeks are pillowed. Thackeray , Philip, xxxvi. 3. Naut . , a swinging bed or hammock of canvas, stiffened by a wooden frame, and having up- right sides of canvas to protect the sleeper. It is slung on lanyards called "clues," and secured to hooks in the carlines or deck-beams. It differs from the ham- mock in the frame and upright sides, and in not being ca- pable of being rolled up and stowed in the nettings. It is now rarely used except in the sick-bay aboard a man-of- war, but was very common in crowded quarters for officers in the American navy up to 1865. 4. A leather cover for a finger, used to protect the finger when it is injured or sore, or to shield it from injury, as in di ecting; a finger-stall. - 5. A sheath or sleeve, as the clothing for a drawing-roller in a spinning-frame. cot2 (kot), n . [E. dial., formerly also cote ; cf. cot- ton2 . Hence cotgare .] 1. Refuse wool. Knight ; Hall i well . - 2. A fleece of wool matted toge- ther; a lock of wool or hair clung together. Wedgwood. cot3 (kot), n. [ cot , a small boat.] A lit- tle boat. [Irish.] Cymochles of her questioned Both what she was, and what that usage ment, Which in her cott she daily practized? "Vaine man" (saide she), My little boat can safely pa e this perilous bourne. Spenser , F. Q., II. vi. 9. cot4+ (kot), n. [Abbr. from cotquean .] An ef- feminate person. Some may think it below our hero to stoop to such a mean employment, as the poet has here enjoined him, of holding the candle; and that it looks too much like a cit i- zen, or a cot , as the women call it. Hist . Tom Thumb . A noble painting of Charles II. on horseback, in costu- mic armour. Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., 1. 457. cot. An abbreviation of cotangent . Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself... stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks. 2 Chron. xxxii. 28. The folded flocks penn'd in their wattled cotes . Milton , Comus, 1. 344. [In this sense now used chiefly in composition, as dove-cote, hen-cote, sheep- cote , swine - cote , etc.] cote2+, n. A former spelling of coat2 . cotest (kōt), v. t. [F. cótoyer , go by the side of, OF.costoier , > also E. coast : see coast , v .] To pa on one side of; pa by; pa . We coted them on the way; and hither are they coming. Shak ., Hamlet, ii. 2. cotest, n. [ cotes , v.] The act of pa ing by; a going by. Drayton. cote4+ (kōt), v. t. [F. coter , quoter , > E. quote , q. v.] To quote. The text is throughout coted in the margin. Udall , Pref. Thou art come from coting of ye scriptures, to IMG:content-1401.jpg:[blocks in formation] côtelaine côtelaine (kō'te-len), n. Same as cóteline.