Word Meanings - COSTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Costing nothing.

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• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• COSTARD
  and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its 1. An apple, large and round like the head. Some consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. 2. The head; --
• COSTER
  One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
• COSTERMONGER
  An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
• COSTA
  A rib of an animal or a human being.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• COSTOTOME
  An instrument to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.
• COSTUME
  custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 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
• COSTEAN
  To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
• COSTLESS
  Costing nothing.
• COSTLINESS
  The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
• COSTLEWE
  Costly. Chaucer.
• NOTHINGARIAN
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• COSTON 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.
• COSTMARY
  A garden plant 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.
• COSTIVE
  constiper, L. constipare to press closely together, to cram; con- + stipare to press together, cram. See Stipulate, Stiff, and cf. 1. Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated. 2. Reserved; formal;
• COSTATE; COSTATED
  Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; having one or more longitudinal ribs.
• COSTUMER
  One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc.
• NOTHER
  Neither; nor. Chaucer.
• COSTARDMONGER
  A costermonger.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• QUADRICOSTATE
  Having four ribs.
• NEGINOTH
  Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
• PENTECOSTALS
  Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.