Hypertext Webster Gateway: "accost"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Accost \Ac*cost"\, v. i.
To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] ``The shores which to the
sea accost.'' --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Accost \Ac*cost"\, n.
Address; greeting. [R.] --J. Morley.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
accost
v 1: speak to someone [syn: {address}, {come up to}]
2: offer one's body for sex in return for money; "he was
solicited by a prostitute" [syn: {solicit}]
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