Definition of cost

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Cost (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

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Sun :: Sumptuous (a.) Involving large outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel..
Stiff-backed :: Stiff (superl.) Very large, strong, or costly; powerful; as, a stiff charge; a stiff price..
Stegnotic :: Stegnotic (a.) Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions or discharges generally..
Cost :: 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..
Penny :: Penny (a.) Worth or costing one penny.
Pentecosties :: Pentecosties (pl. ) of Pentecost.
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..
Costiferous :: Costiferous (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae..
Meterage :: Meterage (n.) The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring..
Miniver :: Miniver (n.) A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.
Triplicostate :: Triplicostate (a.) Three-ribbed.
Ciclatoun :: Ciclatoun (n.) A costly cloth, of uncertain material, used in the Middle Ages..
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..
Domino :: Domino (n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure..
Loose :: Loose (superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
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..
Gris :: Gris (a.) A costly kind of fur.
Mise :: Mise (n.) Expense; cost; disbursement.
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..
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