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