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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Defray :: Defray (v. t.) To pay or discharge; to serve in payment of; to provide for, as a charge, debt, expenses, costs, etc..
Extemporize :: Extemporize (v. t.) To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc..
Malacostraca :: Malacostraca (n. pl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca..
Luxury :: Luxury (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes..
Telson :: Telson (n.) The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.
Costly :: Costly (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.
Rate :: Rate (n.) Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation..
Ejectment :: Ejectment (n.) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it..
Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of..
Pentecosties :: Pentecosties (pl. ) of Pentecost.
Malacostracous :: Malacostracous (a.) Belonging to the Malacostraca.
High :: High (superl.) Costly; dear in price; extravagant; as, to hold goods at a high price..
Luxury :: Luxury (n.) Anything which pleases the senses, and is also costly, or difficult to obtain; an expensive rarity; as, silks, jewels, and rare fruits are luxuries; in some countries ice is a great luxury..
Subcostal :: Subcostal (a.) Situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles..
Cottise :: Cottise (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close..
Sumptuous :: Sumptuosity (n.) Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness.
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Custrel :: Custrel (n.) See Costrel.
Chargeable :: Chargeable (a.) Serving to create expense; costly; burdensome.
Costal-nerved :: Costal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
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