(idiomatic, especially military, of a fighting person, unit, or vehicle) To make one's opponent pay a very high price to defeat or obtain (a person, unit, vehicle, or territory).

A village and civil parish in Eastleigh borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU4806).

(mineralogy) A soft bismuth-oxygen-fluorine mineral.

A man who devotes himself to the ladies, from a character in Spenser (Faerie Queene III.7.53)