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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coast \Coast\ (k[=o]st), noun [OF. coste, F. c[^o]te, rib, hill, shore, coast, L. costa rib, side. Cf. {Accost}, verb (used with an object), {Cutlet}.]
1. The side of a thing. [Obs.] --Sir I. Newton.
2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. [Obs.]
From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. --Deut. xi. 24.
3. The seashore, or land near it.
He sees in English ships the Holland coast. --Dryden.
We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow. --Waller.
{The coast is clear}, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. --Dryden. Fig.: There are no obstacles. ''Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus.'' --Sir P. Sidney.
{Coast guard}. (a) A body of men originally employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. [Eng.] (b) The force employed in life-saving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.]
{Coast rat} (Zo["o]l.), a South African mammal ({Bathyergus suillus}), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also {sand mole}.
{Coast waiter}, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coast \Coast\, verb (used with an object)
1. To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of. [Obs.] --Hakluyt.
2. To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of.
Nearchus, . . . not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore. --Sir T. Browne.
3. To conduct along a coast or river bank. [Obs.]
The Indians . . . coasted me along the river. --Hakluyt.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Coast \Coast\ (k[=o]st), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Coasted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coasting}.] [OE. costien, costeien, costen, OF. costier, costoier, F. c[^o]toyer, fr. Of. coste coast, F. c[^o]te. See {Coast}, noun]
1. To draw or keep near; to approach. [Obs.]
Anon she hears them chant it lustily, And all in haste she coasteth to the cry. --Shak.
2. To sail by or near the shore.
The ancients coasted only in their navigation. --Arbuthnot.
3. To sail from port to port in the same country.
4. [Cf. OF. coste, F. c[^o]te, hill, hillside.] To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. [Local, U. S.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
coast
noun
1: the shore of a sea or ocean [syn: {seashore}, {seacoast}, {sea-coast}]
2: a slope down which sleds may coast; "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course"
3: the area within view; "the coast is clear"
4: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" [syn: {slide}, {glide}]
verb: move effortlessly; by force of gravity
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
188 Moby Thesaurus words for "coast": abide, avalanche, bank, be a sideliner, be effortless, be painless, be still, beach, beam, berm, board, boat, border, bordure, brim, brink, broadside, brow, canoe, carry sail, cheek, chop, circumnavigate, coastland, coastline, cross, cruise, delay, do nothing, drift, edge, embankment, featheredge, flange, flank, flit, flow, fly, foreshore, frame, freeze, fringe, give no trouble, glide, glissade, glissando, go by ship, go easily, go like clockwork, go on shipboard, go to sea, hand, handedness, hang fire, haunch, hem, hibernate, hip, hug the shore, ice-skate, idle, ironbound coast, jowl, keep quiet, labellum, labium, labrum, landslide, landslip, laterality, ledge, lido, lie dormant, lie still, limb, limbus, lip, list, littoral, make a passage, many-sidedness, marge, margin, mark time, motorboat, multilaterality, navigate, not breathe, not budge, not stir, plage, planking, playa, ply, present no difficulties, profile, quarter, ragged edge, range the coast, remain, remain motionless, repose, rest, rim, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, roll, roller-skate, row, run, run smoothly, sail, sail coast-wise, sail round, sail the sea, sands, scull, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seafare, seashore, seaside, selvage, shingle, shore, shoreline, side, sideline, sideslip, siding, sit back, sit it out, skate, skateboard, ski, skid, skim, skirt, skirt the shore, sled, sleigh, slidder, slide, slide down, slip, slippage, slither, snowslide, snowslip, stagnate, stand, stand fast, stand firm, stand still, stay, stay in soundings, stay put, steam, steamboat, stick, stick fast, strand, submerged coast, subsidence, sweep, take a voyage, take it easy, tarry, temple, tidewater, toboggan, traverse, tread water, unilaterality, vegetate, verge, voyage, wait and see, watch and wait, waterfront, waterside, work well, yacht
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
COAST {Cache On A STick}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
COAST Cache On A STick (Intel)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
COAST Computer Operations, Audit and Security Technology (org.)
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