Word Meanings - TWELVEPENNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.

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• COSTARD
  and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its 1. An apple, large and round like the head. Some consist more of air than water . . . ; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. Muffett. 2. The head; --
• COSTER
  One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.
• COSTERMONGER
  An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer.
• COSTA
  A rib of an animal or a human being.
• COSTAGE
  Expense; cost. Chaucer.
• COSTOTOME
  An instrument to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.
• WORTH
  1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in
• COSTUME
  custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• COSTEAN
  To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
• WORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
• WORTHFUL
  Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• COSTLESS
  Costing nothing.
• SHILLY-SHALLY
  Irresolution; hesitation; also, occupation with trifles. She lost not one of her forty-five minutes in picking and choosing, - - no shilly-shally in Kate. De Quincey.
• COSTLINESS
  The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
• WORTHILY
  In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.
• SHILLALAH; SHILLELAH
  An oaken sapling or cudgel; any cudgel; -- so called from Shillelagh, a place in Ireland of that name famous for its oaks.
• COSTLEWE
  Costly. Chaucer.
• SHILL
  To shell.
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• MALACOSTRACOLOGY
  That branch of zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• BICOSTATE
  Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
• TRIPLICOSTATE
  Three-ribbed.
• QUADRICOSTATE
  Having four ribs.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• PENTECOSTALS
  Offerings formerly made to the parish priest, or to the mother church, at Pentecost. Shipley.
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
• FLEXICOSTATE
  Having bent or curved ribs.
• PENTECOSTY
  A troop of fifty soldiers in the Spartan army; -- called also pentecostys. Jowett .
• STERNOCOSTAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.