coastn.
/kəʊst/, U.S. /koʊst/ I. The side of any body.† 1. † 2. transferred. The side (of anything). Obsolete.† 3. A rib of a ship. (French côte de navire.) Obsolete.
a. The side of the body (of people or animals); the part fortified by the ribs. † by my coste: by my side (quot. 1591). Obsolete.In late usage perhaps referred immediately to Latin costa.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > side > [noun]
sideOE
coastc1420
pleuron1706
costal1816
pleurum1876
c1420 Anturs of Arth. xlvii Alle the cost of the knyȝte he keruys doune clene.
1485 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xii Syr Beaumayns smote hym thorou the cost of the body.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. E In eache syde or cost of the belly.
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 294 This curdog by my coste..will serve my sheepe to gather.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. ii. 13 Into the lungs, veines, and costs.
b. esp. in Scottish, where sometimes = ‘trunk, girth’.
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1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 64 The grounden suerd throuch-out his cost it schar.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) x. iv. 129 In mannys form fra hys cost to hys crown.
1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados ii. v. 18 Grekis hid, the hors coist within.
1570 Sir W. Sinclair in Chambers Dom. Ann. Scot. I. 65 It was mair nor twa eln of length, as great as the coist of ane man.
a1605 A. Montgomerie O Pleasand Plant 15 Then quench this fyre, quhilk runneth ay the poste Out throu my cost.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 346 And round and round about Dushit him coist and bak.
c. The side of an animal, for cooking.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > part or joint of animal > [noun] > side or flank
flitcha700
loinc1340
sidea1400
lunyie?a1513
coastc1540
flitchen1658
flank1747
tenderloin1828
short loin1866
lap1922
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ii. x. f. 16v/2 Half ane cost to the sercheouris of theuis..two rybbis of the cost to the medcinar.
a1651 E. Grey True Gentlewomans Delight (1653) sig. B8 To frie a coast of Lamb. Take a coast of Lamb, and perboyle it, take out all the bones.
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) We still use the expression of a coast of mutton.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [noun] > the side of anything
sideeOE
cheeka1400
coasta1400
wing?1482
flank1624
siding1627
broadside1632
a1400–50 Alexander 1522 Euen as þe esyngis ȝede ouire be þe costes.
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) v. xiv. 107 In a round spere..there is neither cost ne corner begynnyng ne ende.
1530 tr. Caesar Commentaryes v. 7 They ryde by every coste of the batell castynge dartys.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxviii. 586 The coastes or sides [of the cucumber] be long, and greene at the beginning, & afterward yellow.
a1727 I. Newton Opticks (1730) iii. i. 348 The Rays..would not be refracted towards that Coast rather than..any other Coast.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > rib
wrongc1000
wrangel1355
rib1378
foot stock1598
coast1631
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iii. ii. 82 in Wks. II It is an Automa..and has a nimble taile Made like an auger, with which taile she wrigles Betwixt the coasts of a Ship, and sinkes it streight.
II. The side of the land, sea-side, country-side.† 5. The border, bound, or limit, of a country; territory on or near a boundary or frontier, borderland. (Chiefly plural.) Obsolete.† 6. A tract or region of the earth; a district, place, clime, country, ‘part of the world’. Obsolete.† 7. A region (of the air or of the heavens). Obsolete.† 8. † b. spec. in the transplanting of trees: see quot. 1669, and cf. coast v. 11. Obsolete.† 9. With the extended sense of side n.1 = space lying in any direction from a person or body, quarter; = Latin pars, and often capable of being rendered ‘part’; in such phrases as by one (or another) coast; in (or from) every (or any) coast. Obsolete.† 10. Cf. coast v. 10, 2d Obsolete.
4. The edge or margin of the land next the sea, the sea-shore.† f. Rarely, the bank of a river or pond. Obsolete.
a. In the full phrase, coast of the sea, sea-coast n. = seaside. Formerly sometimes land's coast.See further s.v. sea-coast n.
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c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 41 Do mak þre hundreth schippes opon þe sees koste.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 296 The ship upon the wawes drofe Till that they se the londes coste.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) xiii. xxii. 455 Grete costes of the see ben callyd Sinus.
a1400 Octouian 1247 Now folwen we to the wateres cost.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) viii. 29 Sum oþer hauens þat er on þa costes of þe see.
1520 Chron. Eng. ii. f. 10v/2 Fast beside a cost of the se.
1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour iv. 5477 in Wks. (1931) I Apone the costis of the see.
1611 Bible (King James) Matt. iv. 13 Capernaum, which is vpon the Sea coast . View more context for this quotation
b. By ellipsis coast. (The ordinary use.)
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun]
sea-warthc888
sea-rimOE
sea-strandc1000
sandc1275
rive1296
bankc1350
sea-banka1375
sea-coasta1400
coastc1400
warthc1450
ripec1475
landsidec1515
seashore1526
banksidec1540
brinish brink1594
shorea1616
ore1652
outland1698
sea beach1742
table-shore1849
playa1898
treaty coast1899
treaty shore1901
beach1903
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1033 Hit [the Dead Sea] is corsed of kynde & hit coostez als.
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) vi. 123 Owre ffishers and the dwellers vppon owre costes.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 553 [They] saw till thar cost schippes approchand.
1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados iii. Prol. 38 By..Uncouth coistis, and mony vilsum strandis Now goith our barge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iv. iii. 25 The Romaine Legions, all from Gallia drawne, Are landed on your Coast . View more context for this quotation
1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated i. iii. 66 On the coasts of Norway.
1796 W. Atkinson in W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 486 The Poppy..I have seen growing in gardens near the coast.
1865 A. Geikie Scenery & Geol. Scotl. iii. 46 The abrupt rocky coast which forms the sea-board.
c. the coast is familiarly applied in different regions to specific littoral districts, in India esp. to the Coromandel coast, and thence (in 19th cent.) to the Madras Presidency; also applied to the Pacific coast of North America; the West Coast (and thence the province of Westland) of the South Island of New Zealand; the West Coast of Africa; (similarly) spec. one or other bank of the Mississippi near its mouth. Also attributive.
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1793 H. Boyd Wks. 78 The belles of the Coast.
1800 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) I. 227 I have only 1892 Coast and 1200 Bombay sepoys.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana 174 The Coast may be said to begin at Pointe Coupée. From this to La Fourche, two thirds of the banks are perfectly cleared.
1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 24 (note) The banks of the Mississippi are termed ‘the coast’ as far up the river as Baton Rouge.
1866 Daily Morning Chron. (Washington, D.C.) 5 Feb. 1/1 Oregon is the land of pretty girls and big red apples..there are enough around to supply the whole coast.
1868 Putnam's Mag. May 594/2 The left bank, or ‘coast’, of the river, as it is called in Louisiana.
1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 26 Is it any wonder, then, that the Coast Army has lost its ancient renown?
1881 H. W. Nesfield Chequered Career vii. 72 That was nothing out of the way at that time ‘on the coast’.
1888 L. D. Powles Land of Pink Pearl 280 He was then for a time ‘on the coast’, as it is called, a polite form of saying a man has been in the slave trade on the West Coast of Africa.
1908 J. G. Findlay Humbugs & Homilies 258 Who talks as tall as a Coast Cockatoo.
1926 Princess Marie Louise Lett. from Gold Coast 3 We English when we talk about the ‘Coast’ mean only the Gold Coast, whereas it actually includes Gambia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. Those living there, however, are generally spoken of as ‘Coasters’.
1930 Publishers' Weekly 8 Feb. 708/1 I like the Coast because it comprises California, Oregon, Washington and the contiguous States.
1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps i. ii. 25 There was the Coast... People said, ‘Eldridge. Of course, he's an old Coaster.’.. There was no other Coast but the West Coast.
1939 ‘M. Innes’ Stop Press iv. i. 419 The coast—that's what they call Hollywood.
1946 ‘M. Innes’ From London Far iii. vi. 214 I leave for the Coast six tomorrow morning... A message from Johannesburg sends a man shooting off to the shores of the Pacific.
1949 B. Dowling Canterbury 11 Beyond the western foothills lost The huge and desolate ranges of the Coast.
1958 Times 13 Aug. 12/4 It has been the life's work of many merchant converters in Manchester to produce speciality African prints for the people..‘on the Coast’.
d. (from) coast to coast, across an entire country or continent, nationwide; used esp. with reference to the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of America. Also attributive.
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the world > space > extension in space > [phrase] > across a country or continent
(from) coast to coast1850
society > travel > [adjective] > across entire country
(from) coast to coast1911
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxv. 92 And then I know the mist is drawn A lucid veil from coast to coast . View more context for this quotation
1911 Chicago Daily News 23 Sept. 1/1 Aviator Robert G. Fowler, coast to coast aviator.
1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 35 Why, I wouldn't be surprised if by spring I wasn't tuning up again for a coast-to-coast tour.
1922 S. Lewis Babbitt viii. 112 Mr. Frink was known from Coast to Coast as ‘Chum’.
1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 61 A coast-to-coast hitch-up.
1960 News Chron. 25 Feb. 6/8 It was made into a coast-to-coast TV show in America.
e. to clear the coast, the coast is clear: i.e. of enemies who would dispute an attempt to land or embark; hence ‘the danger is over, the enemies have marched off’ (Johnson); also, the way is open for an operation, event, etc. See clear v. 10, clear adj. 20.
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the world > action or operation > safety > perfectly safe [phrase] > there is no danger
the coast is clear1567
the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] > there is no hindrance
the coast is clear1868
1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Biiv Where these rufflares mighte well beholde the coaste aboute them cleare.
1584 R. Greene Myrrour of Modestie sig. Avii Seing the coast cleere.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) i. iv. 87 See the Coast clear'd, and then we will depart. View more context for this quotation
1634 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 288 When he is sure the coast is clear, and no body near to enter the lists with him.
1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 42 With these distinctions he sayes, he clears the coast, whereas in truth he darkeneth his meaning.
1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. 44 By the end of November the coast was pritty clear of them.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 321 Having learned to know when the coast is clear, we may sally out boldly to forage for new discoveries.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. ix. 326 The coast was now clear for Godwine's return.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bank > [noun]
banksidec1540
coast1607
beach1756
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 668 We must keepe them [sc. swine] altogether by water sides..and if the coasts be so dry..then must they haue water set in troughes.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun] > border district(s)
end-landc1175
marcha1325
bounds1340
coast1377
marcherc1475
border1489
marchland1536
confines1548
front1589
limitrophe1589
commark1612
land-march1614
frontier1676
Border-sidea1700
borderland1813
border-countryc1885
rimland1942
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 85 Þe counte of coueitise and alle þe costes [v.r. coostes] aboute.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xx. 16 In the cytee of Cades, that is in thin uttermoost coostis.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 94 Coste of a cuntre, confinium, ora.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Matt. ii. 16 In Bethleem & in all the coastes thereof.
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) i. iii. 13 Heere we may beginne, to discover the coasts of Selfe-love.
1611 Bible (King James) Judges i. 18 Also Judah tooke Gaza with the coast therof. View more context for this quotation
a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State (1651) 19 Leaving none to defend their coast, though being beset with many Enemies.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun]
endc893
earthOE
coastc1315
plagea1382
provincea1382
regiona1382
countrya1387
partya1387
climatea1398
partc1400
nookc1450
corner1535
subregion1559
parcel1582
quart1590
climature1604
latitudea1640
area1671
district1712
zone1829
natural region1888
sector1943
c1315 Shoreham 10 This bethe the wordes of cristninge Bi thyse Englissche costes.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 24885 All þaa þat in þat ferr cost fard.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 295 Thy landes is thus to chese in costes colde.
1483 Cath. Angl. 77 A Coste; vbi, a kyndome; clima uel climata.
1574 A. Golding tr. A. Marlorat Catholike Expos. Reuelation 114 He alludeth to the South countries, where the heate of the sunne doth wonderfully anoy suche as dwel in those coasts.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 464 While I abroad Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek Deliverance for us all. View more context for this quotation
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the world > the universe > sky, heavens > [noun] > region, zone
coastc1400
zone1795
star stream1844
lane1899
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) i. §19. 11 Thise Aȝimutz seruen to knowe the costes of the firmament.
?c1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Arms) l. 19716 (MED) I..herde a voys fro heuen coost.
1549 J. Olde tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Eph. II. Introd. 14 The coastes of the ayre.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. v. f. 289 The coast or part of heauen, wherein the sunne or starre is at that instant.
1631 Eng. Primer of Our Lady 477 Send us, from the heavenly coast, Cleerenes of Thy beames so bright.
a. A point of the compass; quarter, direction.
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the world > space > direction > [noun]
sideOE
wayOE
coast1377
partc1380
airta1400
quarter1604
carriage1663
direction1665
range1678
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman xviii. 113 Out of þe west coste a wenche..Cam walkynge in þe wey.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xlix. 36 Y shal brynge in vp on Elam foure wyndus fro the foure coestus of heuene.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 162v Let the front of your Henne house stand alwayes towards the East, and to that coast let the doore open.
1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) ii. sig. E3 Hauing..the foure Coasts, E. S. W. and N., noted in the out-sides.
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 184 Let the winde turne to another Coast.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Course That Point of the Compass, or Coast of the Horizon.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > arrangement in planting
quincunx1606
coast1664
underplanting1914
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 20.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 107 In the removal of such Trees that have arrived to any considerable bigness, it is very expedient to observe the coast and side of the stock, which way it stood before its removal; and..place the same sides to the Coast they tended to before.
1676 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum 52 Before you take up the Tree, it is good with a Marking-Stone, or piece of Chalk,..to mark one coast of every Tree, either East, West, North, or South, as you please; that when you plant them again, you may remember to plant that marked side to the same Coast as it tended unto before.
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the world > space > [noun] > defined or limited portion of space > a particular extent or region
coastc1320
confinec1400
quarterc1400
region?1537
leet1567
demesne1597
floor1626
area1700
department1832
parallel1887
c1320 Sir Beues 1023 Ase he com ride be a cost, Twei kniȝtes a fond of Beues ost.
c1325 Coer de L. 5632 Now sewyd Richard with hys hoost, And closyd hem in, by anothir coost.
14.. Purific. Marie in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 127 God chose thi wombe for his tabernacle And halowed hyt so clene yn euery cost.
c1450 Why I can't be a Nun 309 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 146 And now..in euery cost I haue schewed the nunnes gouernawnce.
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xx. iiii. sig. s.ii Euery good dede, done in any cost It cometh allonly of the holy gost.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [noun] > other actions
checkc1430
tiringc1450
rifler1486
canceleer1599
coast1614
gurgiting1614
raling1618
stooping1653
casta1793
1614 S. Latham Falconry Introd. 1 The wayes and coasts of birds, and foules of the aire, are altogether uncertaine.
III. representing French côte hill-side, slope, declivity.
11. (U.S. and Canadian.) A (snow- or ice-covered) slope down which one slides on a sled; the act of so sliding down. (Originally local.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > slope or run
coast1775
bob1856
toboggan1878
toboggan slide1878
run1879
chute1884
ice run1900
piste1917
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > tobogganing > [noun] > action
coast1870
1775 Let. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. July (1865) 398 Some of our School lads..improved the coast from Sherburn's Hill down to School Street..Their fathers before 'em had improved it as a coast from time immemorial.
1870 L. M. Alcott Old-fashioned Girl iii. 44 ‘Let's run,’ said Polly, as they came into the path after the last coast.
1883 E. M. Bacon Dict. Boston, Mass. 19 The boys of Boston are as fond as the boys of the Revolutionary days of the coast on the Common.
1889 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 5 Feb. 73 During a racing contest at a coast in Albany..a loaded bob-sled came in contact with some ice hummocks, breaking the steering apparatus.
12. Hence, (through coast v.) a run down-hill on a bicycle or tricycle, with the feet off the pedals. See coast v. 13. Also transferred, applied to a motor car, rocket, etc.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > coasting downhill > instance of
coast1886
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [noun] > moving without thrust from engine
coast1940
1886 Cyclist's T.C. Gaz. IV. 137 Mr. Pennell, in the January Gazette, spoke of magnificent ‘coasts’ miles in length.
1887 Athenæum 22 Jan. 123/3 Their [tricycle] brake snaps at the top of a steep hill, thus frustrating the anticipated delight of a seven miles ‘coast’ (why have we not got this convenient term?)
1888 G. B. Thayer Bicycle Tour (New York World) The only pleasant anticipation I had in the 3 hours' climb was the coast that was sure to come.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 2 Oct. 2/1 We had a clear run of five miles without pedalling... A long free-wheel of seven miles. Down, down, down we sped, a long exhilarating coast.
1940 Illustr. London News 196 292/3 I purposely drove it as a careful wartime motorist would, with 40 m.p.h. as my main-road speed, a sparing use of the gears, and an occasional ‘coast’ in neutral on really long descents.
1968 Times 16 Dec. 7/4 Once the coast to the moon has begun, Apollo is separated from the third stage.
Compounds
C1. General attributive: in sense ‘of, pertaining to, or at the sea-coast’.
coast-belt n.
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1887 Spectator 22 Oct. 1413 The long coast-belt imperfectly settled.
coast-defender n.
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1883 Whitaker's Almanack 445/2 China.—3 ironclads. Two of them are double-turreted coast-defenders of the first class.
coast-district n.
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1907 H. M. Chadwick Origin Eng. Nation ix. 218 the coast-district between the two rivers.
coast-fishing n.
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1774 Hist. in Ann. Reg. (1775) 80/2 To spare the coast-fishing craft.
coast-fringe n.
coast-land n.
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1852 C. Kingsley Andromeda in Poems 197 The downs of the coastland.
coast-light n.
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1856 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity (1858) 149 A port of traffic, with coast-lights instead of stars.
coast-line n.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > coast line
seasidec1275
the sea's sidea1400
seasides1532
shoreside1571
sea-linea1687
seaboard1788
waterline1789
shoreline1811
sea-edge1820
coast-line1861
ocean line1870
ria coast1899
rias coast1899
1861 W. G. Clark in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 38 The road at first follows the coast-line.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar vi. 55 The coast line of Pontus extended from Sinope to Trebizond.
coast-region n.
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1907 H. M. Chadwick Origin Eng. Nation 214 The coast-regions of the North Sea.
coast-ridge n.
coast-road n.
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1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xxiii. 345 The low coast-road to Edinburgh passed through this plain. View more context for this quotation
coast-service n.
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1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 30 If on shore, or in coast-service.
coast-side n. (cf. countryside n.)
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1716 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 121 In all this parish, and all the coast-side, they lived upon free quarters.
coast-survey n.
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1832 Deb. Congress 30 May 3187 The coast survey..will not be completed..under sixty years.
coast-town n.
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1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 47 We shall hear of nothing but Star-board and Lar board... Such a Sermon may possibly doe some good in a Coast-Town.
coast-trade n.
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1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 282 Flat-boats..take down more or less bacon for the coast trade.
coast-trader n.
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1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 161 Jumah, a coast-trader.
C2. Special combinations.
coast-blockade n. (see quot. 1867).
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1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Coast-blockade, a body of men formerly under the jurisdiction of the Customs, termed Preventive Service..now become the Coast-guard.
coast-cocket n. a certificate for the carriage of goods by water along the coast.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > ship's papers > [noun] > other certificates
coast-cocket1776
navicert1923
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. ii. 523 Goods carried coastwise..require certificates or coast-cockets . View more context for this quotation
coast-defence n. the protection of the coast of a country from attack by sea, either by forts or sea-vessels.
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society > armed hostility > defence > [noun] > defence of coast
coast-defence1854
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 172/1 A plan for coast defence.
1869 Chambers's Jrnl. 710/1 A low-speed coast-defence vessel.
1883 Whitaker's Almanack 445/2 Norway.—Has only 4 coast-defence monitors.
1886 Harper's Mag. June 23/1 Another type of ships, which are styled ‘coast-defence vessels’.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/1 Our coast-defence artillery.
1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 888/2 Modern coast defense installations up to and including the World War II period relied on camouflage and dispersion as well as limited mobility.
1966 J. L. Moulton Norwegian Campaign 1940 iii. 81 The senior naval officer at Narvik knew the weakness of the two 40-year-old coast defence ships.
coast disease n. Australian a disease of sheep and cattle caused by dietary deficiency of certain minerals.
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1938 H. R. Marston (title) Studies on coast disease of sheep in South Australia.
1940 Nature 31 Aug. 308/2 Investigations of foot rot, coast disease of sheep, and cobalt- and copper-deficiency in ruminants.
coast-fever n. a fever occurring in coastal regions; spec. a disease, transmitted by ticks, which attacks cattle on the East Coast of Africa; = East Coast fever n. (b) at East Coast n. Compounds 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 248 Keeping him hard at work while ill of the coast fever.
1904 Daily Chron. 4 July 7/7 Coast fever.
1904 A. Theiler in Rep. S. Afr. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 203 The disease was originally called Rhodesian Redwater... An improvement in the nomenclature was the words Rhodesian Tick Fever: a still better name is East Coast Fever.
1905 Science in S. Afr. 339 They clearly recognized and described the small and characteristic organisms of African Coast Fever.
coast-find n. (see quot. 1865).
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > archaeology > archaeological expedition or excavation > find
coast-find1865
flint-find1865
1865 J. Lubbock Prehist. Times iii. 80 ‘Coastfinds’ are discoveries of rude flint implements, which are found lying in large numbers on certain spots along the old line of coast.
coast fox n. U.S., a fox of the Californian coast.
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1870 Amer. Naturalist 3 186 The Coast Fox (Vulpes littoralis), if really distinct from the gray, does not occur northward.
coast-ice n. the belt of ice formed along a coast in high latitudes, and breaking off in summer.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > belt > formed along specific area
coast-ice1856
ice foot1856
ballycater1863
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xv. 158 Greenstone..frozen into the coast-ice of the belt.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 363 In the year 1850, much larger blocks had been removed by coast~ice.
coast-liner n. a surveyor whose work is to map a coastline; so coast-lining.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > types of survey
trigonometrical survey1801
geological survey1818
traverse survey1860
cadastral survey1861
coast-lining1902
resistivity survey1924
resistivity surveying1932
the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor > surveyor of coastline
coast-liner1902
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 102/2 It is with the high-water line that the coast-liner is concerned, delineating its character according to the Admiralty symbols.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 102/1 Coast-lining. In a detailed survey the coast is sketched in by walking along it, fixing by theodolite or sextant angles.
1927 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 516/2 I was..peacefully engaged in coast-lining with a sextant and theodolite.
coast-man n. one who dwells on the coast.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > dweller beside sea
coast-man1580
maritimea1600
sea-borderer1599
sea-boarder1611
coaster1612
shoreman1650
Paralian1724
Orarian1869
bayman1904
cover1905
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 36v To coast man ride, Lent stuffe to prouide.
1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 59 in Jewell House The Coast-men..doo also bestow that which remaineth of the pilchardes upon their leane and hungrey grounds.
1845 E. A. Poe Descent into Maelström in Tales 89 Among the whole of the Lofoden coastmen, we three were the only ones who made a regular business of going out to the islands.
1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 161 They refused to allow any coast-men into their kingdom.
coast-partridge n.
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1906 W. L. Sclater Birds S. Afr. IV. 213 Natal Francolin. .. ‘Coast Partridge’ of Natal; ‘Namaqua Pheasant’ of Transvaal Boers.
coast-pheasant n. a name for Francolinus natalensis.
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1911 J. D. F. Gilchrist S. Afr. Zool. 255 Francolinus natalensis is the Coast partridge of Natal or ‘Namaqua pheasant’ of the Transvaal.
coast-rat n. the Sand-mole of South Africa, a species of Bathyergus.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Hystricomorpha (porcupine or guinea-pig) > [noun] > member of family Bathyergidae
coast-rat1849
1849 Sketches Nat. Hist.: Mammalia IV. 98 The coast-rat, or sand-mole of the downs..is a native of Southern Africa, frequenting sandy tracts along the coast.
coast sickness n. Australian = coast disease n.
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1883 Trans. Royal Soc. S. Australia VI. 136 Sheep are subject to a wasting and fatal disease, known as ‘coast sickness’, if pastured continuously on these littoral tracts.
coast-waiter n. a custom-house officer who superintends the landing and shipping of goods coastwise.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > one who superintends landing of goods
land-waiter1711
coast-waiter1774
landing-waiter1797
1774 Hull Dock Act 45 In the presence of a tide surveyor or coast-waiter.
coast-warning n. ‘synonymous with storm-signal’ (Adm. Smyth).
coast-watcher n. (see quots.).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > watcher of other specific things
waitera1425
mooncalfa1627
sightman1794
skywatcher1889
horse-watcher1894
coast-watcher1916
spotter1944
leaf peeper1965
leaf freak1974
1916 War Illustr. 4 604/2 They don't call us coastguards, mind you, but Coast Watchers.
1928 Daily Express 23 Mar. 1/3 The small force of coast-watchers who have taken the place of the old coastguards.
1955 Sun (Baltimore) 19 May (Edition B) 8/1 The area [in Guadalcanal] is so inaccessible and inhospitable, that when Australian ‘coast watchers’ used it as a hideout for spotting and reporting Japanese movements to the Americans, even the Japanese left the island agents alone.
coast-watching n. (see quots.).
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1925 Act 15 & 16 Geo V c. 88 §1 A coast-watching force for the performance of the duties hitherto performed by the coast-guard.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
coastv.
/kəʊst/, U.S. /koʊst/ a. transitive. To keep by the side of (a person moving on); esp. to march on the flank of. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (transitive)] > keep pace with
to hold a wayOE
to run with ——?c1400
coast1413
endure1588
to keep upa1633
to keep with ——1817
pace1931
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) i. i. 2 A fayr Yonglyng of ful huge beaute me alwey costeyed.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. v. 73 Þe scottis made gret travale Til costay þame on ilka syde, As throw þe Land þai saw þaim ryd.
1485 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xviii. xxi And euer this lady and parte of her wymmen costed the hynde.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xl. 55 So they rode costyng the hoost.
1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 21 I..sayled..followed by ye Indians, which costed me along the riuer.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 32 But coasted one another eu'ry where In friendly sort.
1623 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill i. i Who are these that coast us? You told me the walk was private.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon i. ii. 63 Having continually coasted them, and attended their motion with eight hundred light Horse.
b. intransitive.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > move at specific rate [verb (intransitive)] > keep pace with
coast1413
to keep (also hold) pace1583
live1898
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) ii. xlvi. 52 So alwey he wente, kepyng and costeyng after.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. lijv Then he..folowed with his footemen, the wynges of horsemen coastynge and rangynge on euery syde.
a. transitive. To go or move by the side or border of (a place, etc.); to skirt. Obsolete.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > pass along outskirts of
coastc1400
trend1580
banka1616
skirt1735
to scrape along1884
outskirt1898
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > move past > closely
coastc1400
shore1592
butt1594
banka1616
skirt1735
verge1890
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1696 In rede rudede vpon rak rises þe sunne, & ful clere costez [MS reads costeȝ] þe clowdes of þe welkyn.
1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. xviii. 135 Antigone..pursued them..alongest the playne, costing dayly the mountayn.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) viii. 333 Thence ascendyng the Rhyne and coasting Heidleberg.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 71 Satan..Coasting the wall of Heav'n on this side Night. View more context for this quotation
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 40 Th' illustrious Stranger [sc. a comet]..takes his ample Round Thro' Depths of Ether; coasts unnumber'd Worlds.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > travel on outskirts
coast1553
scrape1603
skirt1623
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. ix. f. 192 [He] gotte into the towne, and coastyng along the walles, came vnto the place where the kynge was.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xxxii. 858 When the dogs course the female [fox] she doth nothing but coast round about her seate and countrie.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 114 To coast round their southern points would be a wide circuit.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > go or lead (of a road or path) [verb (intransitive)] > of a road: lie or lead alongside
coastc1430
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. lix. 98 That oon of the weyes costed on the lift half, and that oother on the riht half.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > move in roundabout course [verb (intransitive)]
to fetch about1551
coast1623
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 38 The King in this perceiues him, how he coasts And hedges his owne way. View more context for this quotation
3. To proceed or travel by the coast of (sea, lake, river).
a. transitive. archaic.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > travel by coast of
coastc1400
c1400 Rom. Rose 134 Tho gan I walke thorough the mede..The ryver syde costeiyng.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xiv. 63 He schall ga by þe playnes of Romany costayand [Cotton text 127 costynge, Fr. cousteant] þe Romayn See.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iii. 31 And while they coast the silent lake Their inspiration I partake.
b. intransitive. (Also to coast it.) archaic.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > travel along coast
to coast it1430
1430 J. Lydgate Compl. Black Knight vi And by a ryver forth I gan costey.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 214 Tamerlane..coasting alongst the sea shoare, passed the time in hunting.
1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 276 Coasting along the little river of Guadarana.
1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 3 20 The Moslems came to the Lake of Tiberias, and coasted round it in Battle-array.
1790 Coll. Voy. round World V. 1691 It was agreed to coast it along the lake.
4. esp. To sail by the sea-coast, skirt the shore; to sail in sight of land.† c. So to coast it. Obsolete.
a. transitive.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > set a ship's course > sail along near coast
coastc1515
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxx. 478 When they were passed the ryuer they costydde the desertis of abylante.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 357 xxvi. shippes..coastyng the Frontiers of Englande.
1682 N. Tate & J. Dryden 2nd Pt. Absalom & Achitophel 30 Our Laws, that did a boundless Ocean seem, Were coasted all, and fathom'd all by Him.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 187. ⁋5 They had now coasted the headland.
1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 64 Coasting the lower lakes with their frail barks.
b. intransitive. To sail by or along the coast; to sail from port to port of the same country (cf. coasting-trade at coasting n. Compounds).
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > sail along or near coast
coast1555
shore1632
to coast it1720
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. i. f. 53v He..coasted euer alonge by the shore.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 73 Coast along the Shore in sight of Land. View more context for this quotation
1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins xxii. 260 The Ancients coasted only in their Navigations, seldom taking the open Sea.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 117 In coasting northerly [Frobisher] discovered the straits which bear his name.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 222 The Spaniards coasting down shore had purchased..provisions as they required them.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > sail along or near coast
coast1555
shore1632
to coast it1720
1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 40 The first Design was only to coast it round the Island.
a. transitive. To make the round of, traverse all parts of, explore, scour. Obsolete.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > travel about > all the parts of
coastc1440
c1440 Generydes 5923 Costyng the contre many dyuers way.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxiijv Euery capitain toke his awne ship, and coasted the seas, euer lokyng for the duke of Albany.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 148 The Erle..coasted the countries in gathering of the people as he went.
a1640 P. Massinger Guardian iv. ii. 147 in 3 New Playes (1655) Their horses appeared spent too; lets take fresh ones And coast the Countrey: ten to one we finde 'em.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places > tour > all the parts of a place
coastc1490
c1490 Promptorium Parvulorum (MS. K.) 95 Costyn ouyr þe cuntre [Pynson coostyn on the countre], transpatrio.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. vi He..houyd there a season and coostyd hyther and thyther.
?c1600 (c1515) Sc. Field (Lyme) l. 237 in I. F. Baird Poems Stanley Family (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Birm.) (1990) 239 Thus they costen throw the cuntrey to the New Castell.
1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 12 Who did nothing but coast up, and downe the countrey.
1643 (title) A Direction for the English Traviller..to Coast about all England & Wales.
a. transitive. Obsolete.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be in contact with > border on
toucha1387
coastc1400
border1535
to bound on?1577
mere1577
board1596
bank1598
skirt1602
tract1612
bounder1636
buttal1642
border1647
hadland1649
line1846
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxiv. 152 Oþer iles costayand þe land of Prestre Iohn [Fr. autres isles costeantz a la terre].
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 125 Three sides are coasted with a combrous let.
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Descr. Germanie v, in Annales 268 The Chauceans..coast all those nations.
1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xliii. 83/1 The East [of Durham] is altogether coasted by the German-Seas.
a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §46 53 Otterton coasteth the clifts.
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1621 F. Quarles Hadassa in Divine Poems (1717) 93 Ribs coast the heart, and guard it round about.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > be near [verb (intransitive)] > be in contact > have same boundary
marchc1330
abut1399
coastc1400
adjoin?1523
confine1523
marchese1525
abuttal1545
touch1567
confront1601
conterminate1637
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxxiv. (heading) Othere that dwellen in the yles costynge to [Cott. fro] Prestre Johnes lond.
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Life Agricola in tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. 242 Britannie..coasteth by east vpon Germanie.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vi. xiii. 121 [The Caspian Sea] taketh diuers names of the inhabitants coasting upon it.
1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 57 The rest [of the Archduke's Provinces]..particularly those which coast upon France.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > be similar [verb (intransitive)] > border upon, approach, or approximate
coast1382
to want little (also naught)a1500
approacha1538
bear1582
sympathize1605
to trench on or upon1622
neighboura1640
to border on or upona1694
approximate1771
verge1827
begin1833
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. Prol. Two and twenti lettris, the whiche of a greet parti niȝ coostieth to Ebrew.
1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 555 A kinde of Libertinisme coasting neerer vpon prophannesse.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 102 More neerely coasting vpon the time of Christs second comming.
1687 W. Winstanley Lives Eng. Poets 57 In English Wiat both of them [Dante and Petrarch] doth coast.
1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 27 The..Soul..coasted on her final State.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards [verb (intransitive)]
comeeOE
tocomeOE
approachc1374
passa1375
accede1465
comprochea1500
coasta1513
aggress?1570
succeed1596
propinquate1623
proximate1623
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxiiiv Wherof heryng Robert le Bruze with the powar of Scotlande coostyd towarde the Englysshemen.
1591 E. Spenser Daphnaïda 39 I did espie Where towards me a sory wight did cost.
1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. viii. 20 Gelanorvs coasteth the readiest way to Timoclea's house.
1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs v. xx. 34 in Purple Island Home let us coast.
a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 9 They..coasted over to us in the dark, and laying hold on the Horses Bridles, stop't them.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)]
to come at ——OE
ofseche?c1225
approachc1305
proachc1450
coast1531
to make up to1596
accost1597
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > advance to attack
seekc825
to seek again(sc1230
pursue?a1425
seek1487
visitc1515
coast1531
to make upon ——1542
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to
runOE
to seek on (also upon)c1230
pursuec1300
yerna1400
seek1487
visitc1515
coast1531
accost1597
to come at ——1601
to make against ——1628
to make at ——1637
tilt1796
rush1823
to come for ——1870
to move in1941
bum-rush1988
1531 H. Latimer Let. Dec. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1324/2 If my Lorde wyll needes coste and inuade my inwarde manne, wyll I, nyll I, and breake violently into my harte.
1591 H. Unton Corr. (1847) 461 The Duke of Mercurye coastede them, and..killed many of them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) i. i. 269 Whose haughtie spirit, winged with desire, Will cost my Crowne. View more context for this quotation
10. Hawking and Hunting. Not to fly or run straight at; to keep at a distance; esp. to fly or run from the straight course so as to cut off the chased animal when it doubles. (Cf. 2d.)
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (transitive)] > other actions of hounds
coast1569
to run in1804
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (transitive)] > other actions
to cast the gorge1535
coast1569
to make its (also her) point1595
crab1674
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 452 Durst not once touche his battayles, but euer kept the passages, and coasted aloofe lyke a Hawke that lyketh not her praye.
1575 G. Gascoigne Short Obseruation Coursing with Greyhoundes in Noble Arte Venerie 246 A Cote is when a Greyhounde goeth endwayes by his fellow & giueth the Hare a turn..but if he coast and so come by his fellowe, that is no Cote.
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 137 Like a Grey-hound, which having once coasted, will never after run fair, but grow sloathful.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 153 That you may let your Hawk fly coasting at the advantage when the Game springeth.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > transplant trees > place facing same direction
coast1626
the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > face a direction > cause to face a direction > with reference to compass points
coast1626
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §471 In all Trees, when they be removed care ought to be taken, that the sides of the Trees be coasted (North and South, etc.) as they stood before.
1658 R. Austen Observ. Bacon's Nat. Hist. 20 Coasting of trees, that is (setting the same side to the South when transplanted as was before).
1708 J. Kersey Dict. Anglo-Britannicum at Coast along In Husbandry, Coasting, upon the transplanting of a Tree, is when the same side of the Tree is plac'd to the South-East, &c. as formerly grew that Way, where it stood before.
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1617 tr. M. A. de Dominis Serm. upon Romanes xiii. 12 32 A Shipmans Card, or Sea-mappe iustly quartered, and coasted.
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a. Originally U.S. To slide down a snow- or ice-covered slope in a sled: see coast n. 11.
b. Hence, to run down hill on a bicycle or tricycle without pedalling, to ‘shoot’ a hill.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (intransitive)] > coast or freewheel
coast1886
free-wheel1899
1836 Boston Pearl 9 Jan. Skate, if you like; ‘coast’, if you are boy enough.
1854 Springfield Republ. Adown thy hills, when I's a boy, O how I used to coast.
1880 Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin 49 254 For injuries suffered..by collision with persons ‘bobbing’ or ‘coasting’ on such street, the city is not liable.
1886 in Cyclist's T.C. Gaz. IV. 137 To welcome ‘coast’ as an addition to our stock of descriptive words.
1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus 187 Upon the hilly streets in town, boys and girls were..running down hill in sleighs, ‘coasting’ as they call it, with swift velocity.
1898 W. J. Locke Idols xxiii. 223 Suddenly at the top of the steep incline a bicyclist whirred past them, and coasted swiftly down.
1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 Jan. 2/3 Five friends with whom he was coasting down a steep ice-coated hill were injured.
1957 A. Clarke Too Great Vine 17 Then, coasting back from Milltown Malbay, I saw before bell rang a warning, Scattery Island and its round tower.
c. To travel in a motor vehicle, rocket, etc., without thrust from the engine; also said of the vehicle.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in a motor car > in specific manner
coast1925
to ride shotgun1961
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > go without thrust from engine
coast1949
1925 Morris Owner's Man. 11 Do not ‘coast’ down hill with the clutch out.
1949 Spectator 18 Nov. I switched off the engine and let the car coast down the hill.
1951 A. C. Clarke Exploration of Space iv. 34 The only practicable way of escaping from the Earth is to build up escape velocity as quickly as possible—and then to cut the rockets and ‘coast’.
1962 Daily Tel. 27 Jan. 1/1 The rocket coasted for about 30 seconds, then the Agena motor fired the second stage clear from the Atlas.
d. Of a bird: to glide swiftly through the air with the wings used only for control.
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the world > animals > birds > flight > [verb (intransitive)] > in specific way
planec1450
flag1590
tower1594
ring1859
coast1904
helicopter1926
1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 11 June 23778 The birds exhibiting no trace of fatigue even after ‘coasting’ long distances.
1935 British Birds XXVIII. 357 February 28th.—Wind S.S.W. Linnets coasting S.
e. figurative. Not to exert oneself; to make progress without undue effort. Const. in, into, to, and in to coast home: to achieve or complete an effortless victory, score, etc. slang, originally U.S.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > succeed or be a success [verb (intransitive)] > win > win easily
to win in a canter1853
to win in a walk1858
romp1869
to walk over (the course)1903
to walk home1932
to coast home1934
walk1937
to romp it1967
the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > become less violent or severe [verb (intransitive)] > relax one's efforts > fail to exert oneself
slack1543
coast1934
1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang xvii. 250 Coast home, to win easily. Coast in, to win easily.
1935 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (U.K. ed.) v. 141 She rested her face on his shoulder, and she put up her mouth for the kiss and then she let herself coast with him.
1955 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. iv. 7/8 The struggle between Mr. Kennelly and his party grew out of organization charges that..he ‘coasted’ during the 1954 state campaign, giving scant support to its ‘blue ribbon’ ticket.
1957 Times 6 Sept. 13/1 The English team coasted comfortably to a total of 246.
1957 Times 6 Sept. 13/6 The champion was content to coast home to a points win.
1958 Times 28 Aug. 13/2 Hampshire were coasting into the lead.
1959 Times 27 Aug. 3/7 Well ahead on points, Erskine rather coasted the last two rounds.
14. To loaf about, to travel about as a tramp. Australian slang.
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1878 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Ups & Downs xxv. 295 I ain't like you, Towney, able to coast about without a job of work from shearin' to shearin'.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. v. 104 Expressions to describe being on the tramp..to swag it, chase the sun, coast about.
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