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To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for. [R.] Him we gave a costly bribe To guerdon silence. Tennyson.

, a garment; esp., a closely fitting garment or dress worn by ladies; as, a riding habit. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy. Shak. There are, among the states, several of Venus, in different habits. Addison.

To call loudly to, or after; to accost; to salute; to address.

Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price. If they must be good at so high a rate, they know they may be safe at a cheaper. South.

To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad. [Local, U. S.]

executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch. Lloyd's MS., British Museum. [Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch who had butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has, during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who have succeeded him in his odious office. Macaulay.…

perism. Sixty per cent of those traced showed, degeneracy, and they are estimated to have cost society $1,308,000 in 75 years.

tainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost. Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.

ad, much worn as an ornament of dress. Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costlylaces. Bacon.

undred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. F. Harrison. The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. Dryden.

ter or opera, without payment, or to whom a periodical, or the like, is furnished without cost.

nite. Chaucer. From the periodical deliveries of these characteristic articles of servile costume (blue coats) came our word livery. De Quincey.

Lax; not costive; having lax bowels. Locke.

To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of. Bacon.

A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes. Riches expose a man to pride and luxury. Spectator.

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article.

to overpower; to subdue. Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows. Locke.

s kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope.

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.