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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Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Stiff-backed :: Stiff (superl.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price..
Maudeline :: Maudeline (n.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow..
Costean :: Costean (v. i.) To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
Pavan :: Pavan (n.) A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
Crustaceology :: Crustaceology (n.) That branch of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.
Ciclatoun :: Ciclatoun (n.) A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages..
Accost :: Accost (n.) Address; greeting.
Stegnotic :: Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally..
Carcinology :: Carcinology (n.) The department of zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology..
Itemize :: Itemize (v. t.) To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad..
Cost :: Cost (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
Endear :: Endear (v. t.) To raise the price or cost of; to make costly or expensive.
Needscost :: Needscost (adv.) Of necessity.
Tout-ensemble :: Tout-ensemble (n.) All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts..
Taxable :: Taxable (a.) That may be legally charged by a court against the plaintiff of defendant in a suit; as, taxable costs..
Costard :: Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Seigniorage :: Seigniorage (n.) Something claimed or taken by virtue of sovereign prerogative; specifically, a charge or toll deducted from bullion brought to a mint to be coined; the difference between the cost of a mass of bullion and the value as money of the pieces coined from it..
Unicostate :: Unicostate (a.) Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.
Accoast :: Accoast (v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.
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