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Webster 1913 Edition
Accost
Ac-cost′
(#; 115)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Accosted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Accosting
.] 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.
Ac-cost′
,Verb.
I.
To adjoin; to lie alongside.
[Obs.]
“The shores which to the sea accost.” Spenser.
Ac-cost′
,Noun.
Address; greeting.
[R.]
J. Morley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accost
ACCOST'
,Verb.
T.
1.
To approach; to draw near; to come side by side, or face to face. [Not in use.]2.
To speak first to; to address.ACCOST'
,Verb.
I.