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Costard   Listen
noun
Costard  n.  
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."
2.
The head; used contemptuously. "Try whether your costard or my bat be the harder."





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"Costard" Quotes from Famous Books



... and not the learned languages alone, contributed their syllables of simulated despair. Many scholastic gentlemen mourned in Greek; James Stillingfleet found vent in Hebrew; Mr. Betts concealed his tears under the cloak of the Syriac speech; George Costard sorrowed in Arabic that might have amazed Abu l'Atahiyeh; Mr. Swinton's learned sock stirred him to Phoenician and Etruscan; and Mr. Evans, full of national fire and the traditions of the bards, delivered himself, and at great length too, in Welsh. The ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) • Justin McCarthy


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