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hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

ne quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.

Carefulness; painstaking. [Obs.] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger.

See Costrel. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

tting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad. This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper. Knolles.

Rare; valuable; costly. [Obs.] Full many a deynté horse had he in stable. Chaucer.

Bearing a high price; high-priced; costly; expensive. The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. Shak.

The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price. The dearness of corn. Swift.

ry deep. Clarendon. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as is identified with mourning garments.

To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc. For the discharge of his expenses, and defraying his cost, he allowed him . . . four times as much. Usher.

The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs.

Rare; excellent; costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

irectory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

y the same service. A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley.

A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc.

To lead along step by step; to entice. With daily lies she dribs thee into cost. Dryden.

mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton.

To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive. [R.] King James I. (1618).