Definition of cost

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Cost (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..

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Accoast :: Accoast (v. t. & i.) To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.
Itemize :: Itemize (v. t.) To state in items, or by particulars; as, to itemize the cost of a railroad..
Domino :: Domino (n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure..
Murrhine :: Murrhine (a.) Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; -- applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels..
Overcostly :: Overcostly (a.) Too costly.
Coster :: Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc..
Triplicostate :: Triplicostate (a.) Three-ribbed.
Three-pile :: Three-pile (n.) An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile..
Malacostomous :: Malacostomous (a.) Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes..
Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Costumer :: Costumer (n.) One who makes or deals in costumes, as for theaters, fancy balls, etc..
Orgyia :: Orgyia (n.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural..
Defrayal :: Defrayal (n.) The act of defraying; payment; as, the defrayal of necessary costs..
Tout-ensemble :: Tout-ensemble (n.) All together; hence, in costume, the fine arts, etc., the general effect of a work as a whole, without regard to the execution of the separate perts..
Pentecoster :: Pentecoster (n.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
Costive :: Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
Drape :: Drape (v. i.) To design drapery, arrange its folds, etc., as for hangings, costumes, statues, etc..
Expenseless :: Expenseless (a.) Without cost or expense.
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