From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accost \Ac*cost"\, noun Address; greeting. [R.] --J. Morley.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accost \Ac*cost"\ (#; 115), verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accost \Ac*cost"\, verb (used without an object) To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] ''The shores which to the sea accost.'' --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: speak to someone [syn: {address}, {come up to}]
2: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" [syn: {hook}, {solicit}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "accost": address, advance, apostrophize, appeal to, approach, appropinquate, approximate, bear down on, bear down upon, bear up, bespeak, bid good day, bid good morning, bow to, buttonhole, call to, close, close in, close with, come, come closer, come forward, come near, come on, come up, confront, curtsy, draw near, draw nigh, encounter, exchange greetings, gain upon, greet, hail, halloo, invoke, kiss, kiss hands, lift the hat, narrow the gap, near, nod to, proximate, pull the forelock, salute, say hello, shake, shake hands, sidle up to, speak, speak fair, speak to, step up, take aside, talk to, touch the hat, uncover
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