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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Tax :: Tax (n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court..
Loosen :: Loosen (v. t.) To remove costiveness from; to facilitate or increase the alvine discharges of.
Sternocoracoid :: Sterno- () A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sternum; as, sternocostal, sternoscapular..
Malacostracology :: Malacostracology (n.) That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Costiveness :: Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
Cheap :: Cheap (n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value..
Board :: Board (v. t.) To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo..
Defrayal :: Defrayal (n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs..
Multicostate :: Multicostate (a.) Having numerous ribs, or costae, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals..
Costive :: Costive (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
Advance :: Advance (v.) An addition to the price; rise in price or value; as, an advance on the prime cost of goods..
Costotome :: Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections..
Estimate :: Estimate (v. t.) To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the number of feet in a piece of land..
Costal :: Costal (a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves..
Precious :: Precious (a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone..
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.
Whitsunday :: Whitsunday (n.) The seventh Sunday, and the fiftieth day, after Easter; a festival of the church in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; Pentecost; -- so called, it is said, because, in the primitive church, those who had been newly baptized appeared at church between Easter and Pentecost in white garments..
Sumptuous :: Sumptuosity (n.) Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness.
Ecostate :: Ecostate (a.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
Bellybound :: Bellybound (a.) Costive; constipated.
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