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Definition of Costard

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 Costard 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...
- The costard was a variety of apple po****r in medieval England, and the second apple variety (after the pearmain) introduced by the Normans. It was grown...
- 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...
- pairs of lovers are comically mismatched, all the amours are revealed. Costard leads a musical number with the King's court, which eventually includes...
- 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:...
- two-wheeled barrows. London street traders were called costermongers (from costard, the mediaeval word for apple) and more generally barrow boys, since anything...
- 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...
- Beauchamp hires two men, Costard and Podd, to break into the safe after hours and steal the gems. Diana stumbles on the robbery, and Costard kills her with a...
- "River Discharge". Gautier, Emmanuèle; Dépret, Thomas; Cavero, Julien; Costard, François; Virmoux, Clément; Fedorov, Alexander; Konstantinov, Pavel; Jammet...
- Bibcode:2012Icar..218...88B. doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.030. Meresse, Sandrine; Costard, François; Mangold, Nicolas; M****on, Philippe; Neukum, Gerhard; the HRSC...