Vocabulary : Costean to Costiveness

Costean : To search after lodes. See Costeaning.
Costeaning : 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 : Finely ribbed or costated.
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.

Costiferous : Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebrae.
Costing : of Cost
Costive : Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated. ;; Reserved; formal; close; cold. ;; Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding.
Costively : In a costive manner.
Costiveness : An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation. ;; Inability to express one's self; stiffness.

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