Costlewe Cost"lewe adjective Costly. [ Obsolete]
Chaucer.
Costliness Cost"li·ness noun The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
Costly Cost"ly adjective [ From Cost expense.]
1. Of great cost; expensive; dear. He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess.
Prescott.
2. Gorgeous; sumptuous. [ Poetic.]
To show how costly summer was at hand.
Shak.
Costmary Cost"ma·ry noun [ Latin
costum an Oriental aromatic plant (Gr. ........., confer Arabic
kost ,
kust ) +
Maria Mary. Confer
Alecost .]
(Botany) A garden plant ( Chrysanthemum Balsamita ) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost .
Coston lights Cos"ton lights Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.
Costotome Cos"to·tome noun [
Costa + Greek ............ to cut.]
An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.
Costrel Cos"trel noun [ CF. W.
costrel , Old French
costrel , Late Latin
costrellum , a liquid measure,
costrellus a wine cup.]
A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. [ Archaic]
A youth, that, following with a costrel , bore
The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine.
Tennyson.
Costume Cos"tume` noun [ French
costume , Italian
costume custom, dress, from Latin
consuetumen (not found), for
consuetudo custom. See
Custom , and confer
Consuetude .]
1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume , too, is admirable.
Sir J. Mackintosh.
3. A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Costumer Cos"tum`er noun One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.
Cosupreme Co`su·preme" noun A partaker of supremacy; one jointly supreme. Shak.
Cosurety Co·sure"ty noun ;
plural Cosureties (-t...z).
One who is surety with another.
Cosy Co"sy adjective See Cozy .
Cot Cot noun [ Middle English
cot ,
cote , Anglo-Saxon
cot ,
cote , cottage; akin to D. & Icelandic
kot , G.
koth ,
kot ,
kothe . Confer
Coat .]
1. A small house; a cottage or hut. The sheltered cot , the cultivated farm.
Goldsmith.
2. A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote. 3. A cover or sheath; as, a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame); a cot for a sore finger. 4. [ Confer Ir.
cot .]
A small, rudely- formed boat. Bell cot .
(Architecture) See under Bell .
Cot Cot noun [ Anglo-Saxon
cot cottage, bedchamber; or confer Old French
coite , French
couette (E.
quilt ), Late Latin
cottum ,
cottus , mattress. See
Cot a cottage.]
A sleeping place of limited size; a little bed; a cradle; a piece of canvas extended by a frame, used as a bed. [ Written also
cott .]
Cotangent Co·tan"gent noun [ For
co .
tangens , an abbrev. of Latin
complementi tangens . See
Tangent .]
(Trig.) The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions .
Cotarnine Co·tar"nine noun [ French, from
narcotine , by transposition of letters.]
(Chemistry) A white, crystalline substance, C 12 H 13 NO 3 , obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.
Cote Cote (kōt)
noun [ See 1st
Cot .]
1. A cottage or hut. [ Obsolete]
2. A shed, shelter, or inclosure for small domestic animals, as for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve,
In hurdled cotes .
Milton.
Cote Cote transitive verb [ Prob. from French
côté side, Old French
costet , Late Latin
costatus ,
costatum , from Latin
costu rib, side: confer French
côtoyer to go or keep at the side of. See
Coast .]
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before; as, a dog cotes a hare. [ Obsolete]
Drayton. We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
Shak.
Cote Cote transitive verb [ See
Quote .]
To quote. [ Obsolete]
Udall.
Coteau Co`teau" noun ; plural
Coteaux . [ French, a hill.] [ Canada & U. S.]
1. A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide. 2. The side of a valley.
Cotemporaneous Co·tem`po·ra"ne·ous adjective [ See
Contemporaneous .]
Living or being at the same time; contemporaneous. --
Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ly ,
adverb --
Co*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness ,
noun
Cotemporary Co·tem"po·ra·ry adjective Living or being at the same time; contemporary.
Cotemporary Co·tem"po·ra·ry noun ;
plural Cotemporaries (-rĭz).
One who lives at the same time with another; a contemporary.
Cotenant Co·ten"ant noun A tenant in common, or a joint tenant.
Coterie Co`te·rie" noun [ French, probably from Old French
coterie servile tenure, from
colier cotter; of German origin. See 1st
Cot .]
A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique. "The queen of your
coterie ."
Thackeray.
Coterminous Co·ter"mi·nous adjective [ Confer
Conterminous .]
Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with .
Cotgare Cot"gare` noun Refuse wool. [ Obsolete or Prov.]
Cothurn Co"thurn noun [ Latin
cothurnus , Greek ............. Confer
Cothurnus .]
A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect.
Motley.
Cothurnate Co·thur"nate adjective 1. Wearing a cothurn. 2. Relating to tragedy; solemn; grave.
Cothurnus Co·thur"nus noun [ Latin ]
Same as Cothurn .
Coticular Co·tic"u·lar adjective [ Latin
coticula a small touchstone, dim.
cos ,
cotis , whetstone.]
Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones.
Cotidal Co·tid"al adjective Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Physics Geology) ,
lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.
Cotillon Co`til`lon" (ko`te`yôN"
or ko`tel`-; 277),
Co*til"lion (ko*tĭl"yŭn)
noun [ French
cotillon , from Old French
cote coat, Late Latin
cotta tunic. See
Coat .]
1. A brisk dance, performed by eight persons; a quadrille. 2. A tune which regulates the dance. 3. A kind of woolen material for women's skirts.
Cotinga Co·tin"ga (ko*ten"gȧ)
noun [ Native South American name.]
(Zoology) A bird of the family Cotingidæ , including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers .
Cotise Cot"ise (kŏt"ĭs)
noun (Her.) See Cottise .
Cotised Cot"ised adjective (Her.) See Cottised .
Cotland Cot"land noun Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.
Cotquean Cot"quean` noun [
Cot a cottage +
quean .]
1. A man who busies himself with affairs which properly belong to women. Addison. 2. A she-cuckold; a cucquean; a henhussy. [ Obsolete]
What, shall a husband be afraid of his wife's face?
We are a king, cotquean , and we will reign in our pleasures.
B. Jonson.
Cotqueanity Cot·quean"i·ty noun The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. [ Obsolete]
B. Jonson.
Cotrustee Co`trus·tee" noun A joint trustee.
Cotswold Cots"wold` noun [
Cot a cottage or hut +
wold an open country.]
An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep ,
a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.
Cotta Cot"ta noun [ Late Latin See
Coat .]
1. (Eccl.) A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. 2. A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.
Cottage Cot"tage noun [ From
Cot a cottage.]
A small house; a cot; a hut. » The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size.
Cottage allotment .
See under Alloment . [ Eng.] --
Cottage cheese ,
the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball.
Cottaged Cot"taged adjective Set or covered with cottages. Even humble Harting's cottaged vale.
Collins.
Cottagely Cot"tage·ly adjective Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [ Obsolete]
Jer. Taylor.
Cottager Cot"ta·ger noun 1. One who lives in a cottage. 2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own.
Cotter Cot"ter (kŏt"tẽr)
noun 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge- shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [ See Illust. ] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key . 2. A toggle.
Cotter Cot"ter transitive verb To fasten with a cotter.
Cotter, Cottar Cot"ter, Cot"tar noun [ Late Latin
cotarius ,
cottarius ,
coterius . See
Cot .]
A cottager; a cottier. Burns. Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter .
Whittier.
Cottier Cot"ti·er (-tĭ*ẽr)
noun [ Old French
cotier . See
Coterie , and confer
Cotter .]
In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [ Written also
cottar and
cotter .]
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