(a) Outlay of money, expenditure, expense; pl. charges or expenses incurred; expenditures, costs; (b) at (of, on, up, upon, with) cost(es, at the expense (of sb.), at (someone's) charges; withouten cost, without charge, gratis; (c) beren ~ of, to require expenditure of (sb.); don cost(es, make outlays of money, incur expenses, spend money (on sth., sb.); leien ~, pay charges, spend money (on sth.); maken (the) cost(es, make an outlay or advance of money; pay the charges; putten unto ~, put (sb.) to expense; setten ~, spend money (on sth., sb.); setten her costes in his lai, charge their expenses to his account; taken gret ~, spend lavishly; (d) ?expenditure of effort; losen ~, to lose (one's) labor (?or expense); (e) cost drawer, a causer of expense.

(a) Funds for (a particular) expenditure; expense money; (b) gifts; an offering, oblation.

(a) Price, cost; value; setten at no ~, to regard (sth.) as of no value; given no cost to, pay no attention to (sth.); of gret ~, of great price, expensive; also fig. involving loss, costly; bi lives ~, at the cost of one's life, on pain of death; (b) a costly object.