noun a rib; a side; a region or coast.
2. cost ·vt expenses incurred in litigation.
3. cost ·noun ·see cottise.
4. cost ·impf & ·p.p. of cost.
5. cost ·vt loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
6. cost ·vt to require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
7. 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.
8. 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.