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Definition of Costards

Costard
Costard Cos"tard (k?s"t?rd), n. [Prob. fr. OF. coste rib, side, F. c[^o]te, and meaning orig., a ribbed apple, from the ribs or angles on its sides. See Coast.] 1. 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. 2. The head; -- used contemptuously. Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder. --Shak.

Meaning of Costards from wikipedia

- Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the...
- originally "costard monger", a seller of costards), a term used to describe a transient fruit seller. Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–1400) mentioned the costard in...
- writes a letter to tell the King of a tryst between Costard and Jaquenetta. After the King sentences Costard, Don Armado confesses his own love for Jaquenetta...
- Bibcode:1974Moon....9..227W. doi:10.1007/BF00565406. S2CID 120233258. Costard FM (1989). "The spatial distribution of volatiles in the Martian hydrolithosphere"...
- state of being able to achieve honours". It is mentioned by the character Costard in Act V, Scene I of William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. As it...
- Planetary Science. X: 1370–1372. Bibcode:1979LPI....10.1370W. Meresse, S.; Costard, F.O.; Mangold, N.; M****on, P.; Neukum, G. (2008). "Formation and evolution...
- whose 1598 play, Love's Labour's Lost, includes a reference to dog Latin. Costard: Go to; thou hast it ad dungill, at the fingers' ends, as they say. Holofernes:...
- taimen, Siberian sturgeon, Upper Yenisei grayling. Gautier, Emmanuèle; Costard, François; Fedorov, Alexander (2022). "The Lena: A Large River in a Deep...
- acclaimed German filmmaker ****muth Costard about Manchester United footballer George Best. In the experimental film Costard used eight 16mm film cameras to...
- Abazon. He has released the albums Epitaphe, Zamana, Code noir and Cravate Costards et Pourriture, and cooperated with the prominent Senegalese rapper Didier...