Accost

[Ac*cost·]

Address; greeting.

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To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

Verb
approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"

Verb
speak to someone

v. t.
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

v. t.
To approach; to make up to.

v. t.
To speak to first; to address; to greet.

v. i.
To adjoin; to lie alongside.

n.
Address; greeting.

Accost

Ac*cost" (; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] [F. accoster, LL. accostare to bring side by side; L. ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast.] 1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obs.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

Accost

Ac*cost", v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

Accost

Ac*cost", n. Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

To adjoin; to lie alongside.

Address; greeting.

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