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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.

y. 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.

ing 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.

nstrel . . . .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.

; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller.

Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.

Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.

Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.

An extinct genus of Devonian ganoid fishes, having the broad plates about the head studded with berrylike tubercles.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Having bent ribs.

Same as Discoast. [Obs.]

Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.

Having bent or curved ribs.

Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles.