Cosine (n.) The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Cosmetic (a.) Alt. of Cosmetical
Cosmetical (a.) Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.
Cosmetic (n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
Cosmic (a.) Alt. of Cosmical
Cosmical (a.) Pertaining to the universe, and having special reference to universal law or order, or to the one grand harmonious system of things; hence; harmonious; orderly.
Cosmical (a.) Pertaining to the solar system as a whole, and not to the earth alone.
Cosmical (a.) Characteristic of the cosmos or universe; inconceivably great; vast; as, cosmic speed.
Cosmical (a.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.
Cosmically (adv.) With the sun at rising or setting; as, a star is said to rise or set cosmically when it rises or sets with the sun.
Cosmically (adv.) Universally.
Cosmogonal (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical
Cosmogonic (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical
Cosmogonical (a.) Belonging to cosmogony.
Cosmogonist (n.) One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.
Cosmogonies (pl. ) of Cosmogony
Cosmogony (n.) The creation of the world or universe; a theory or account of such creation; as, the poetical cosmogony of Hesoid; the cosmogonies of Thales, Anaxagoras, and Plato.
Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.
Cosmographic (a.) Alt. of Cosmographical
Cosmographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmography.
Cosmographically (adv.) In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.
Cosmographies (pl. ) of Cosmography
Cosmography (n.) A description of the world or of the universe; or the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.
Cosmolabe (n.) An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.
Cosmolatry (n.) Worship paid to the world.
Cosmoline (n.) A substance obtained from the residues of the distillation of petroleum, essentially the same as vaseline, but of somewhat stiffer consistency, and consisting of a mixture of the higher paraffines; a kind of petroleum jelly.
Cosmological (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmology.
Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Cosmology (n.) The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Cosmometry (n.) The art of measuring the world or the universe.
Cosmoplastic (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming.
Cosmopolitan (n.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
Cosmopolite (n.) One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world.
Cosmopolitan (a.) Alt. of Cosmopolite
Cosmopolite (a.) Having no fixed residence; at home in any place; free from local attachments or prejudices; not provincial; liberal.
Cosmopolite (a.) Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.
Cosmopolitanism (n.) The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
Cosmopolite (a. & n.) See Cosmopolitan.
Cosmopolitical (a.) Having the character of a cosmopolite.
Cosmopolitism (n.) The condition or character of a cosmopolite; disregard of national or local peculiarities and prejudices.
Cosmorama (n.) An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts of the world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses, with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closely represent reality.
Cosmoramic (a.) Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.
Cosmos (n.) The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
Cosmos (n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.
Cosmosphere (n.) An apparatus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.
Cosmotheism (n.) Same as Pantheism.
Cosmothetic (a.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.
Cosovereign (n.) A joint sovereign.
Coss (n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles.
Coss (n.) A thing (only in phrase below).
Cossack (n.) One of a warlike, pastoral people, skillful as horsemen, inhabiting different parts of the Russian empire and furnishing valuable contingents of irregular cavalry to its armies, those of Little Russia and those of the Don forming the principal divisions.
Cossas (n.) Plain India muslin, of various qualities and widths.
Cosset (n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
Cosset (v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.
Cossic (a.) Alt. of Cossical
Cossical (a.) Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art.
Cost (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast.
Cost (n.) See Cottise.
Cost (imp. & p. p.) of Cost
Costing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cost
Cost (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.
Cost (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
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.
Cost (v. t.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
Cost (v. t.) Expenses incurred in litigation.
Costa (n.) A rib of an animal or a human being.
Costa (n.) A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
Costa (n.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
Costa (n.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
Costage (n.) Expense; cost.
Costal (a.) Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.
Costal (a.) Relating to a costa, or rib.
Costal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
Costard (n.) An apple, large and round like the head.
Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Costardmonger (n.) A costermonger.
Costate (a.) Alt. of Costated
Costated (a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
Costean (v. i.) To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
Costeaning (n.) The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
Costellate (a.) Finely ribbed or costated.
Coster (n.) One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
Costermonger (n.) An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
Costiferous (a.) Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.
Costive (a.) Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.
Costive (a.) Reserved; formal; close; cold.
Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
Costively (adv.) In a costive manner.
Costiveness (n.) An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.
Costiveness (n.) Inability to express one's self; stiffness.
Costless (a.) Costing nothing.
Costlewe (a.) Costly.
Costliness (n.) The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
Costly (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.
Costly (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous.
Costmary (n.) A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) 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.
Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections.
Costrel (n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side.
Costume (n.) Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period.
Costume (n.) Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described.