Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COS'TIVE-LY, adv.

With costiveness.

COS'TIVE-NESS, n.

A preternatural detention of the fecal matter of the bowels, with hardness and dryness; an obstruction or preternatural slowness of evacuations from the bowels. – Medicine.

COST'LESS, a.

Costing nothing. – Barrow.

COST'LI-ER, a. [comp.]

More costly.

COST'LI-EST, a. [superl.]

Most costly.

COST'LI-NESS, n. [See Costly.]

Expensiveness; great cost, or expense; sumptuousness. – Rev. xviii, 19. Sidney.

COST'LY, a. [From cost.]

Of a high price; sumptuous; expensive; purchased at a great expense; as, a costly habit; costly furniture. Mary took a pound of spikenard, very costly. – John xii.

COST'MA-RY, n. [Gr. κοστος, L. costus, an aromatic plant, and Maria. Ar. and Pers. قسط kost.]

A species of tansy, or Tanacetum; alecost.

COS'TREL, n.

A bottle. [Not in use.]

COS-TUME', n. [Fr. costume, custom.]

1. In painting, a rule or precept by which an artist is enjoined to make every person and thing sustain its proper character, observing the scene of action, the country or place, and making the habits, arms, manners and proportions correspond. Hence, the observance of this rule in execution. Encyc.
2. An established mode of dress.

CO-SUF'FER-ER, n.

One who suffers with another.

CO-SU-PREME', n.

A partaker of supremacy. – Shak.

CO-SURE'TY, n.

One who is surety with another. – Mass. Rep.

COT, or COTE, n. [Sax. cot, cote, cyte; G. koth; D. kot; W. cwt. In Welsh, the word signifies a cot, a hovel or stye, an abrupt termination, a rump, a tail, a skirt. Cwta, short, abrupt, bob-tailed; cwtau, to shorten. This indicates that cot is from cutting off, and hence defending.]

1. A small house; a hut; a mean habitation; also, a shed or inclosure for beasts. – 2 Chron. xxxii.
2. A leathern cover for a sore finger.
3. An abridgement of cotquean.
4. A cade lamb. [Local.] – Grose.
5. A little boat.

CO-TAN'GENT, n.

The tangent of an arc which is the complement of another to ninety degrees. – Harris.

COTE, n.

A sheepfold. [See Cot.]

COTE, v.t.

To pass by and turn before; to gain ground in coursing and give a competitor the turn. [Little used.] – Shak. Chapman.

CO-TEM-PO-RA'NE-OUS, a. [Infra.]

Living or being at the same time.

CO-TEM-PO-RA'NE-OUS-LY, adv.

At the same time with some other event.

CO-TEM'PO-RA-RY, a. [L. con, co, and tempus, time.]

Living or being at the same time; as, cotemporary authors. Josephus was cotemporary with Vespasian. – Locke. Blackstone.

CO-TEM'PO-RA-RY, n.

One who lives at the same time with another. [I consider this word as preferable to contemporary, as being more easily pronounced.]

CO-TEN'ANT, n. [Fr.]

A tenant in common. – Kent.

CO-TE-RIE', n. [Fr.]

A friendly party, or fashionable association.

CO-TERM'IN-OUS, a. [See Conterminous.]

Bordering upon; adjacent in territory. – Jefferson.

CO-TIC'U-LAR, a. [L. coticula, from cos, a whetstone.]

Pertaining to whetstones; like or suitable for whetstones. – Kirwan.