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Finely ribbed or costated.

One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebræ.

Reserved; formal; close; cold. [Obs.] "A costive brain." Prior. "Costive of laughter." B. Jonson. You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive. Lord Chesterfield.

In a costive manner.

Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [Obs.] A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield.

Costing nothing.

Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.

Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. Prescott.

. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

ng ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic] A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. Tennyson.

strel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.

One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Same as King-post.

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.