- (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.
- (n.) See Cottise.
- (v.t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
- (v.t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
- (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
- (v.t.) 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.
- (v.t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Cost.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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