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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.

Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.

Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.

Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.

Having bent ribs.

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.

Broad-ribbed.

Having numerous ribs, or costæ, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals.

Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.

Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.

Having four ribs.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.