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Accost
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3
Part of speech: noun (n.)
Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.