obs. f. COASTED ppl. a. In the following, app. = Bordered, flanked or ribbed. [Cf. OF. costé.]
1548. Hall, Chron., 12. Some had the helme … curiously graven and conningly costed.
1633. Lithgow, Trav., i. 18. They … rub their Beades on his hard costed belly: thus adoring that breathlesse masse of mettall.
