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1 costare [OF coster < costa; cf. CL costatus], ~iare 1 a (p. ppl.) ribbed, fluted (of metalwork). b to rib (flax). a 1303 ciphus argenti ‥ ~atus et talliatus (KR Ac 363/6) DocExch 282; 1328 una †vista [l. justa] ~ata argentea (Invent.) Reg. Exon. 569; 1340 j aquarium deauratum ~atum de alta sculptura et ingravatum AcWardr (TR Bk. 203) p. 316; 1388 j situla ~ata argentea (Invent. Westm.) Arch. LII 228; 1390 de ‥ j gobelet de beryll’ ~ato Ac. Foreign 25 Gd..  b to ryb lyne, ~are, ex-, nebridare CathA. 2 (intr. w. ad or versus) to adjoin, skirt. c1230 [acre] capitant ad watergangam et ~iant ad terram que fuit Simonis Doc. Robertsbr. 88; a1275 partem mee terre que ~iat versus north ad unum campum ‥ et versus suth ad terram H. B. et versus est ad wallam de S. et versus west ad terram dicti H. B. Cart. Bilsington 108; 1276 communa pasture que est versus boscum ‥, ~ando versus aquilonem Chanc. Misc. 34/24.
2 costare [OF coster < constare] 1 to cost (cf. constare 4); b (impers.). c1243 lestum et dim. de correis cervinis, quod custavit xxvij marcas (CurR) Law Merch. II p. lxxxvii; 1265 custavit cariagium xviij d. (RHosp) Manners 5; 1274 A. major r.c. de aula gilde de vj li. ix s. iij d. ‥ ; tantum aula custavit in omnibus; unde eque est versus communitatem Rec. Leic. I 115; 1276 faciatis solvere quantum custaverint ‥ bona sic empta Reg. Heref. 110; 1331 duo molendina ‥ custarent ad reparandum ‥ x li. S. Jers. I 80; ~avit in omnibus lx marcas Hist. Roff. 44v.  b c1222 coacti sumus ad redemptionem d m. argenti; et alia parte nobis ~at cc marcas (AncC IV 161) RL I 189. 2 to spend. 1282 custavimus ccc marcas eundo ad ‥ regem pro justicia petenda Peckham Ep. 344 p. 450.

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