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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Silver :: Silver (a.) Precious; costly.
Meterage :: Meterage (n.) The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring..
Subcranial :: Subcostal (n.) One of the principal nervures of the wings of an insect. It is situated next beneath or behind the costal. See Nervure.
Recover :: Recover (v. t.) To gain as a compensation; to obtain in return for injury or debt; as, to recover damages in trespass; to recover debt and costs in a suit at law; to obtain title to by judgement in a court of law; as, to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery; to gain by legal process; as, to recover judgement against a defendant..
Costa :: Costa (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
Defray :: Defray (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc..
Cost :: Cost (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
Schizopoda :: Schizopoda (n. pl.) A division of shrimplike Thoracostraca in which each of the thoracic legs has a long fringed upper branch (exopodite) for swimming.
Multicostate :: Multicostate (a.) Having numerous ribs, or costae, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals..
Accosting :: Accosting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accos.
Costume :: Costume (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period..
Constipation :: Constipation (n.) A state of the bowels in which the evacuations are infrequent and difficult, or the intestines become filled with hardened faeces; costiveness..
Intercostal :: Intercostal (a.) 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..
Overcostly :: Overcostly (a.) Too costly.
Costumer :: Costumer (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc..
Unicostate :: Unicostate (a.) Having a single rib or strong nerve running upward from the base; -- said of a leaf.
Costive :: Costive (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
Ecostate :: Ecostate (a.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
Expense :: Expense (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time..
Costermonger :: Costermonger (n.) An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer..
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