·noun A rib; a side; a region or coast.
II. Cost ·vt Expenses incurred in litigation.
III. Cost ·noun ·see Cottise.
IV. Cost ·Impf & ·p.p. of Cost.
V. Cost ·vt Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
VI. Cost ·vt To require to be borne or suffered; to Cause.
VII. Cost ·vt 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.
VIII. Cost ·vt 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.