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A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Betwixt the costs of a ship. B. Jonson.

A rib of an animal or a human being.

Expense; cost. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

e [apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett.

A costermonger.

Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

To search after lodes. See Costeaning.

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

Finely ribbed or costated.

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

r; 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.