Definition of cost

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Cost (v. t.) The amount paid, charged, or engaged to be paid, for anything bought or taken in barter; charge; expense; hence, whatever, as labor, self-denial, suffering, etc., is requisite to secure benefit..

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Accostable :: Accostable (a.) Approachable; affable.
Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..
Luxury :: Luxury (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes..
Originally :: Originally (adv.) At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as, a book originally written by another hand..
Redraft :: Redraft (n.) A new bill of exchange which the holder of a protected bill draws on the drawer or indorsers, in order to recover the amount of the protested bill with costs and charges..
Carcinology :: Carcinology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology..
Bellybound :: Bellybound (a.) Costive; constipated.
Drape :: Drape (v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc..
Custrel :: Custrel (n.) See Costrel.
Board :: Board (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo..
Waistcoat :: Waistcoat (n.) A garment occasionally worn by women as a part of fashionable costume.
Costal-nerved :: Costal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
Enhance :: Enhance (v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime..
Ecostate :: Ecostate (a.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
Malacostracan :: Malacostracan (n.) One of the Malacostraca.
Costeaning :: Costeaning (n.) 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..
Costiferous :: Costiferous (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life..
Expensefull :: Expensefull (a.) Full of expense; costly; chargeable.
Costively :: Costively (adv.) In a costive manner.
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