Cosmolatry Cos·mol"a·try noun [ Greek ......... the world + ......... to worship.] Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

Cosmoline Cos"mo·line noun [ Prob. from cosmetic + Latin ole um oil.] (Chemistry) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline , but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.

Cosmological Cos`mo·log"ic·al adjective Of or pertaining to cosmology.

Cosmologist Cos·mol"o·gist noun One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

Cosmology Cos·mol"o·gy (kŏz*mŏl"o*jȳ) noun [ Greek ko`smos the world + - logy : confer French cosmologie .] The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

Cosmometry Cos·mom"e·try noun [ Greek ko`smos the world + -metry .] The art of measuring the world or the universe. Blount.

Cosmoplastic Cos`mo·plas"tic adjective [ Greek ko`smos the world + pla`ssein to form.] Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. " Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." Gudworth.

Cosmopolitan Cos`mo·pol"i·tan (-p?l"?-t a n), Cos*mop"o*lite (k?z-m?p"?-l?t) noun [ Greek .........; ko`smos the world + ......... citizen, ......... city: confer French cosmopolitain , cosmopolite .] One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.

Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolite Cos`mo·pol"i·tan, Cos·mop"o·lite adjective 1. Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.

In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite .
Sir W. Hamilton.

2. Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan .
R. Owen.

Cosmopolitanism Cos`mo·pol"i·tan·ism noun The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

Cosmopolite Cos·mop"o·lite adjective & noun See Cosmopolitan .

Cosmopolitical Cos`mo·po·lit"ic·al adjective Having the character of a cosmopolite. [ R.] Hackluyt.

Cosmopolitism Cos·mop"o·li·tism noun The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.

Cosmorama Cos`mo·ra"ma noun [ New Latin , from Greek ko`smos the world + ......... a sight, spectacle, from ......... to see.] An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.

Cosmoramic Cos`mo·ram"ic (kŏz`mo*răm"ĭk) adjective Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.

Cosmos Cos"mos (kŏz"mŏs) noun [ New Latin , from Greek ko`smos order, harmony, the world (from its perfect order and arrangement); akin to Sanskrit çad to distinguish one's self.]

1. The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

2. The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony. Humboldt.

Cosmos Cos"mos noun (Botany) A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens , usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and C. diversifolius are among the best-known species; C. caudatus , of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.

Cosmosphere Cos"mo·sphere noun [ Greek ko`smos the world + English sphere .] An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

Cosmotheism Cos"mo·the`ism noun [ Greek ko`smos the world + ......... god.] Same as Pantheism . [ R.]

Cosmothetic Cos`mo·thet"ic adjective [ Greek ko`smos universe + ......... to place or arrange.] (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.

Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.) , those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance.

The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter.
Sir W. Hamilton.

Cosovereign Co·sov"er·eign noun A joint sovereign.

Coss Coss (kŏs) noun [ Confer Pers. kōs a road measure of about two miles; or Sanskrit krōça .] A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

Coss Coss noun [ Italian cosa .] A thing (only in phrase below).

Rule of Coss , an old name for Algebra . [ Italian regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa , or the thing.]

Cossack Cos"sack noun [ Russian kozak' , kazak' : confer Turk. kazāk .] One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.

Cossack post Cos"sack post (Mil.) An outpost consisting of four men, forming one of a single line of posts substituted for the more formal line of sentinels and line of pickets.

Cossas Cos"sas noun [ French] Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.

Cosset Cos"set noun [ Confer Anglo-Saxon cotsetla cottager, German kossat , kothsasse , from kot , koth E. ( cot ) hut, and confer also English cade , adjective , cot a cade lamb.] A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.

Cosset Cos"set transitive verb To treat as a pet; to fondle.

She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of.
O. W. Holmes.

Cossette Cos·sette" noun [ French] One of the small chips or slices into which beets are cut in sugar making.

Cossic Cos"sic adjective [ Italian cossico . See 2d Coss .] Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [ Obsolete] "Art of numbers cossical ." Digges (1579).

Cost Cost noun [ Latin costa rib. See Coast .] 1. A rib; a side; a region or coast. [ Obsolete] Piers Plowman.

Betwixt the costs of a ship.
B. Jonson.

2. (Her.) See Cottise .

Cost Cost (kŏst; 115) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Cost ; present participle & verbal noun Costing .] [ Old French coster , couster , F. coûter , from Latin constare to stand at, to cost; con- + stare to stand. See Stand , and confer Constant .] 1. To require to be given, expended, or laid out therefor, as in barter, purchase, acquisition, etc.; to cause the cost, expenditure, relinquishment, or loss of; as, the ticket cost a dollar; the effort cost his life.

A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats.
Shak.

Though it cost me ten nights' watchings.
Shak.

2. To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.

To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe.
Milton.

To cost dear , to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.

Cost Cost noun [ Old French cost , French coût . See Cost , transitive verb ] 1. 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.

One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you,
Here at my house, and at my proper cost .
Shak.

At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [ Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion.
Prescott.

2. Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.

I know thy trains,
Though dearly to my cost , thy gins and toils.
Milton.

3. plural (Law) Expenses incurred in litigation.

» Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party.

Bill of costs . See under Bill . -- Cost free , without outlay or expense. "Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge." Thackeray.

Costa Cos"ta (kŏs"tȧ) noun [ Latin , rib. See Coast .] 1. (Anat.) A rib of an animal or a human being.

2. (Botany) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.

3. (Zoology) (a) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect. (b) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.

Costage Cost"age noun [ Old French coustage .] Expense; cost. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Costal Cos"tal adjective [ Confer French costal . See Costa .]

1. (Anat.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.

2. (Bot. & Zoology) Relating to a costa, or rib.

Costal cartilage . See Cartilage , and Illust. of Thorax .

Costal-nerved Cos"tal-nerved` adjective (Botany) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.

Costard Cos"tard noun [ Prob. from Old French coste rib, side, French côte , and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its sides. See Coast .] 1. An apple, large and round like the head.

Some [ apples] consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters.
Muffett.

2. The head; -- used contemptuously.

Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder.
Shak.

Costardmonger Cos"tard·mon`ger noun A costermonger.

Costate Cos"tate adjective [ Latin costatus , from costa rib.] Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Botany) having one or more longitudinal ribs.

Costean Cos"tean` intransitive verb [ Cornish cothas dropped + stean tin.] To search after lodes. See Costeaning .

Costeaning Cos"tean`ing noun 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.

Costellate Cos·tel"late adjective [ Latin costa rib.] Finely ribbed or costated.

Coster Cos"ter noun [ Abbrev. of costermonger .] One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

Costermonger Cos"ter·mon`ger noun [ See Costard .] An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [ Written also costardmonger .]

Costiferous Cos·tif"er·ous adjective [ Costa + -ferous .] (Anat.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebræ.

Costive Cos"tive adjective [ Old French costevé , past participle of costever , French constiper , Latin constipare to press closely together, to cram; con- + stipare to press together, cram. See Stipulate , Stiff , and confer Constipate .] 1. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

2. Reserved; formal; close; cold. [ Obsolete] "A costive brain." Prior. " Costive of laughter." B. Jonson.

You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive .
Lord Chesterfield.

3. Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. [ Obsolete]

Clay in dry seasons is costive , hardening with the sun and wind.
Mortimer.

Costively Cos"tive·ly adverb In a costive manner.

Costiveness Cos"tive·ness noun 1. An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

2. Inability to express one's self; stiffness. [ Obsolete]

A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself.
Wakefield.

Costless Cost"less adjective Costing nothing.

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