Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 132
Cosine (n.) (Trig.) 餘弦 The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions. Cosmetic
Cosine (n.) Ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle [syn: cosine, cos].
COSINE, () Cooperation for OSI Networking in Europe (org.)
COSINE, () Cooperation for Open Systems Interconnection Networking in Europe. A EUREKA project.
Cosmetic (a.) 化妝用的；化妝品的 [B]；整容的 [B] Alt. of Cosmetical.
Cosmetical (a.) Imparting or improving beauty, particularly the beauty of the complexion; as, a cosmetical preparation.
First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores, With head uncovered, the cosmetic powers. -- Pope.
Cosmetic (n.) 化妝品；裝飾品 [P] Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.
Cosmetic (a.) Serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose; "cosmetic fenders on cars"; "the buildings were utilitarian rather than decorative" [syn: cosmetic, decorative, ornamental].
Cosmetic (a.) Serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body; "cosmetic surgery"; "enhansive makeup" [syn: cosmetic, enhancive].
Cosmetic (n.) A toiletry designed to beautify the body.
Cosmetician (n.) Someone who sells or applies cosmetics.
Cosmetician (n.) Someone who works in a beauty parlor [syn: beautician, cosmetician].
Cosmetician (n.) 美容品製造人；化妝品經銷商；美容師 One whose occupation is manufacturing, selling, or applying cosmetics.
Cosmetologist (n.) An expert in the use of cosmetics. Cosmic
Cosmetologist (n.) An expert in the use of cosmetics.
Cosmetologist (n.) 美容師 A person who gives beauty treatments (as to skin and hair) called also beautician.
Cosmetology (n.) The practice of beautifying the face and hair and skin.
Cosmetology (n.) 美容術 The job or skill of giving beauty treatments to women by washing and cutting hair, applying makeup, etc.
Cosmetology (n.) The cosmetic treatment of the skin, hair, and nails.
Cosmic (a.) Alt. of Cosmical.
Cosmical (a.) 宇宙的；外層空間的 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. "Cosmic ranges of time." -- Tyndall.
Cosmical (a.) (Astron.) Rising or setting with the sun; -- the opposite of acronycal.
Cosmical (a.) Of unsurpassed size, extent, or significance; vast; as, of cosmic proportions; of cosmic importance.
Cosmic (a.) Of or from or pertaining to or characteristic of the cosmos or universe; "cosmic laws"; "cosmic catastrophe"; "cosmic rays."
Cosmic (a.) Inconceivably extended in space or time.
Cosmically (adv.) 照宇宙法則地 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. [R.] --Emerson. Cosmogonic; Cosmogonal
Cosmogonal (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical.
Cosmogonic (a.) Alt. of Cosmogonical.
Cosmogonical (a.) 天體演化的；天體演化學的 Belonging to cosmogony. -- B. Powell. Gladstone.
Cosmogonist (n.) 宇宙開闢論者 One who treats of the origin of the universe; one versed in cosmogony.
Cosmogonies (n. 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.
The cosmogony or creation of the world has puzzled philosophers of all ages. -- Goldsmith.
Cosmogony (n.) The branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny].
Cosmographer (n.) One who describes the world or universe, including the heavens and the earth.
The name of this island is nowhere found among the old and ancient cosmographers. -- Robynson (More's Utopia). Cosmographic
Cosmographer (n.) A scientist knowledgeable about cosmography [syn: cosmographer, cosmographist].
Cosmographic (a.) Alt. of Cosmographical.
Cosmographical (a.) Of or pertaining to cosmography.
Cosmographically (adv.) In a cosmographic manner; in accordance with cosmography.
Cosmographies (n. 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.
Cosmography (n.) The science that maps the general features of the universe; describes both heaven and earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy).
Cosmography (n.) A representation of the earth or the heavens; "the cosmography of Ptolemy."
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. -- Cudworth.
Cosmolatry (n.) The worship of the cosmos.
Compare: Petrolatum
Petrolatum (n.) (Chem. & Pharm.) 【化】礦物脂 A semisolid unctuous substance, neutral, and without taste or odor, derived from petroleum by distilling off the lighter portions and purifying the residue. It is a yellowish, fatlike mass, transparent in thin layers, and somewhat fluorescent. It is used as a bland protective dressing, and as a substitute for fatty materials in ointments. -- U. S. Pharm.
Note: Petrolatum is the official name for the purified product. Cosmoline and vaseline are commercial names for substances essentially the same, but differing slightly in appearance and consistency or fusibility.
Petrolatum (n.) A semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication [syn: petrolatum, petroleum jelly, mineral jelly].
Cosmoline (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Cosmological (a.) Pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; "cosmologic science"; "cosmological redshift"; "cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmogenic].
Cosmological (a.) Pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality; "cosmologic philosophy"; "a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological].
Cosmologist (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.
Cosmologist (n.) An astronomer who studies the evolution and space-time relations of the universe.
Cosmology (n.) The branch of science or philosophy dealing with the origin and nature of the universe as a whole. specifically
Cosmology (n.) (a) (Philosophy) the branch of metaphysics speculating on the structure and nature of the most fundamental parts of the system of creation, such as space and time, the elements of bodies, the structure of the universe, the modifications of material things, causality, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
Cosmology (n.) (b) (Astronomy) the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and structure of the universe, including the evolution of its present observable structure, using the methods of observational astronomy as well as mathematical physics.
Cosmology (n.) A treatise dealing with the original and structure of the universe.
Cosmology (n.) The metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe.
Cosmology (n.) The branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny].
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. --Blount.
Cosmoplastic (a.) Pertaining to a plastic force as operative in the formation of the world independently of God; world-forming. "Cosmoplastic and hylozoic atheisms." --Gudworth.
Cosmopolitan
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.
In other countries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Cosmopolite (a.) Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.
The Cheiroptera are cosmopolitan. -- R. Owen.
Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolite, (n.) One who has no fixed residence, or who is at home in every place; a citizen of the world. Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan (a.) Growing or occurring in many parts of the world; "a cosmopolitan herb"; "cosmopolitan in distribution" [syn: cosmopolitan, widely distributed] [ant: endemic].
Cosmopolitan (a.) Composed of people from or at home in many parts of the world; especially not provincial in attitudes or interests; "his cosmopolitan benevolence impartially extended to all races and to all creeds"- T.B. Macaulay; "the ancient and cosmopolitan societies of Syria and Egypt"; "that queer, cosmopolitan, rather sinister crowd found around the Marseilles docks" [ant: provincial].
Cosmopolitan (a.) Of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide].
Cosmopolitan (n.) A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries
[syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite].
Cosmopolitanism (n.) The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.
Cosmopolite (a. & n.) 世界公民；【生】分布遍全世界之生物 See Cosmopolitan.
Cosmopolite (n.) A sophisticated person who has travelled in many countries [syn: cosmopolitan, cosmopolite].
Cosmopolite, () A citizen of the world; one who has no fixed. residence. Vide Citizen.
Cosmopolitical (a.) Having the character of a cosmopolite. [R.] -- Hackluyt.
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. --Humboldt.
Cosmos (n.) (Bot.) A genus of composite plants closely related to Bidens, usually with very showy flowers, some with yellow, others with red, scarlet, purple, white, or lilac rays. They are natives of the warmer parts of America, and many species are cultivated. Cosmos bipinnatus and Cosmos diversifolius are among the best-known species; Cosmos caudatus, of the West Indies, is widely naturalized.
Cosmos (n.) Everything that exists anywhere; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" [syn: universe, existence, creation, world, cosmos, macrocosm].
Cosmos (n.) Any of various mostly Mexican herbs of the genus Cosmos having radiate heads of variously colored flowers and pinnate leaves; popular fall-blooming annuals [syn: cosmos, cosmea].
COSMOS, () COmputer System for Mainframe OperationS
Cosmos, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 582
Housing Units (2000): 261
Land area (2000): 1.120643 sq. miles (2.902452 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.018272 sq. miles (0.047325 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.138915 sq. miles (2.949777 sq. km)
FIPS code: 13420
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 44.937273 N, 94.697437 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56228
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cosmos, MN
Cosmos
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. [R.]
Cosmothetic (a.) (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.
Cosovereign (n.) A joint sovereign.
Cosplay (n.) (pl. -s) 角色扮演（由costume和play縮合而成，指利用服裝、飾品、道具以及化妝來扮演動漫、電影或遊戲中的角色）: The activity or practice of dressing up as a character from a work of fiction (such as a comic book, video game, or television show).
Compare: Costume
Costume (n.) 服裝，裝束 [U] [C]；戲裝 [U] [C] 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.
I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . . I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. -- Sir J. Mackintosh.
Costume (n.) A character dress, used at fancy balls or for dramatic purposes.
Costume (n.) The attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won the prize for best costume."
Costume (n.) Unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place; "in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume."
Costume (n.) The prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments).
Costume (n.) The attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; "he wore his national costume."
Costume (v.) Dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins" [syn: costume, dress up].
Costume (v.) (v. t.) 給……穿上服裝；為……提供服裝；為……設計服裝 Furnish with costumes; as for a film or play.
Coss (n.) A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. --Whitworth.
Coss (n.) A thing (only in phrase below).
Rule of Coss, An old name for Algebra. [It. regola di cosa rule of thing, the unknown quantity being called the cosa, or the thing.]
Coss (n.) (In India) A unit of length having different values in different localities [syn: kos, coss].
COSS, () Common Object Services Specification
COSS, () Common Object Services Specification in CORBA.
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.
Cossack (n.) A member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia
Cossas (n.) [F.] 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.
She was cosseted and posseted and prayed over and made much of. -- O. W. Holmes.
Cosset (v.) Treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge].
Cossic (a.) Alt. of Cossical.
Cossical (a.) Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." -- Digges (1579).
Cost (n.) A rib; a side; a region or coast. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
Betwixt the costs of a ship. -- B. Jonson.
Cost (n.) (Her.) 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.
A diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. -- Shak.
Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. -- Shak.
Cost (v. t.) To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
To do him wanton rites, which cost them woe. -- Milton.
To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.
Cost (n.) 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.
One day shall crown the alliance on 't so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. --Shak.
At less cost of life than is often expended in a skirmish, [Charles V.] saved Europe from invasion. -- Prescott.
Cost (n.) Loss of any kind; detriment; pain; suffering.
I know thy trains, Though dearly to my cost, thy gins and toils. -- Milton.
Cost (n.) pl. Expenses incurred in litigation.
Note: Costs in actions or suits are either between attorney and client, being what are payable in every case to the attorney or counsel by his client whether he ultimately succeed or not, or between party and party, being those which the law gives, or the court in its discretion decrees, to the prevailing, against the losing, party.
Bill of costs. See under Bill.
Cost free, Without outlay or expense. "Her duties being to talk French, and her privileges to live cost free and to gather scraps of knowledge." -- Thackeray.
Compare: Cottise
Cottise (n.) (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.
Cost (n.) 費用；成本 [C]；代價；損失 [U] [C] The total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor.
Cost (n.) The property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection" [syn: monetary value, price, cost].
Cost (n.) Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?" [syn: price, cost, toll].
Cost (v.) (v. t.) 花費 [O1]；使付出（時間，勞力，代價等），使喪失 [O1] (v. i.) 花費 Be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be].
Cost (v.) Require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job."
COST, () COpenhagen SGML Tool (SGML), "CoST."
Costa (n.) (Anat.) 【解】肋骨；肋脈 A rib of an animal or a human being.
Costa (n.) (Bot.) 【植】葉脈 A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
Costa (n.) (Zool.) The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
Costa (n.) (Zool.) One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
Costa (n.) A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing).
Costa (n.) Any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) [syn: rib, costa].
Costage (n.) Expense; cost. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Costal (a.) (Anat.) 肋骨的 Pertaining to the ribs or the sides of the body; as, costal nerves.
Costal (a.) (Bot. & Zool.) Relating to a costa, or rib.
Costal cartilage. See Cartilage, and Illust. of Thorax.
Costal cartilage, () The costal cartilages are bars of hyaline cartilage [1] that serve to prolong the ribs forward and contribute to the elasticity of the walls of the thorax. Costal cartilage is only found at the anterior ends of the ribs, providing medial extension.
Costal (a.) Of or relating to or near a rib.
Costal-nerved (a.) (Bot.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
Costard (n.) An apple, large and round like the head.
Some [apples] consist more of air than water . . .; others more of water than wind, as your costards and pomewaters. -- Muffett.
Costard (n.) The head; -- used contemptuously.
Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. -- Shak.
Costardmonger (n.) A costermonger. Costate
Costermonger (n.) [See Costard.] An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]
Costate (a.) Alt. of Costated.
Costated (a.) Having ribs, or the appearance of ribs; (Bot.) having one or more longitudinal ribs.
Costate (a.) (Of the surface) having a rough, riblike texture [syn: costate, ribbed].
Costate (a.) Having 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. [Written also costardmonger.]
Costermonger (n.) A hawker of fruit and vegetables from a barrow [syn: costermonger, barrow-man, barrow-boy].
Costiferous (a.) (Anat.) 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. [Obs.] "A costive brain." -- Prior. "Costive of laughter." -- B. Jonson.
You must be frank, but without indiscretion; and close, but without being costive. -- Lord Chesterfield.
Costive (a.) Dry and hard; impermeable; unyielding. [Obs.]
Clay in dry seasons is costive, hardening with the sun and wind. -- Mortimer.
Costive (a.) Retarding evacuation of feces; binding; constipating [ant: laxative].
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. [Obs.]
A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. -- Wakefield.
Costless (a.) Costing nothing.
Costless (a.) Costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" [syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), gratuitous].
Costlewe (a.) Costly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Costliness (n.) The quality of being costy; expensiveness; sumptuousness.
Costliness (n.) The quality possessed by something with a great price or value [syn: costliness, dearness, preciousness].
Costly (a.) Of great cost; expensive; dear.
He had fitted up his palace in the most costly and sumptuous style, for the accomodation of the princess. -- Prescott.
Costly (a.) Gorgeous; sumptuous. [Poetic.]
To show how costly summer was at hand. -- Shak.
Costly (a.) Entailing great loss or sacrifice; "a dearly-won victory" [syn: dearly-won, costly].
Costly (a.) Having a high price; "costly jewelry"; "high-priced merchandise"; "much too dear for my pocketbook"; "a pricey restaurant" [syn: costly, dear(p), high-priced, pricey, pricy].
Costmary (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Costmary (n.) Tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers; used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring; sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: costmary, alecost, bible leaf, mint geranium, balsam herb, Tanacetum balsamita, Chrysanthemum balsamita].
Costmary (n.) Leaves used sparingly (because of bitter overtones) in sauces and soups and stuffings.
Costotome (n.) An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. -- Knight.
Costrel (n.) A bottle of leather, earthenware, or wood, having ears by which it was suspended at the side. [Archaic]
A youth, that, following with a costrel, bore The means of goodly welcome, flesh and wine. -- Tennyson.
Costume (n.) 服裝，裝束 [U] [C]；戲裝 [U] [C] 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.
I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. -- Sir J. Mackintosh.