ACCOST

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.
v.

To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.

3.
v.

To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.

4.
v.

To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.

5.
n.

Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.

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