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Accost   /əkˈɔst/   Listen
verb
Accost  v. t.  (past & past part. accosted; pres. part. accosting)  
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."
2.
To approach; to make up to. (Archaic)
3.
To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts."


Accost  v. i.  To adjoin; to lie alongside. (Obs.) "The shores which to the sea accost."


noun
Accost  n.  Address; greeting. (R.)





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"Accost" Quotes from Famous Books



... occasions he had seen a grim, sharp-featured old man in the doorway of the shop, but it was not until after he had missed the Thursday train that he made up his mind to accost him and to have the broadsword at any price. With this object in view, he quickly crossed the square and inserted his tall frame into the narrow doorway, calling out lustily for attention. So loudly did he shout that the multitude ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... accost him was Miss Celia Fair. She hadn't any bank business, but seeing Maurice as she passed, stopped to speak to him. She sat down beside him and tried in her pretty, ...
— Mr. Pat's Little Girl - A Story of the Arden Foresters • Mary F. Leonard
... private lodging to avoid observation," Ronald said, "or, not improbably, may have taken another name. The best thing we can do is to go down to the river side, inquire what vessels are likely to leave port soon, and then, if we see anyone going off to them, to accost them. We may hear of them in ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... street. Harris was talking to and walking with one of his fellow-workmen, and Pickles did not care to accost him except ...
— Sue, A Little Heroine • L. T. Meade
... wandering about the most unfrequented parts of the plantations, and seeking every where the rest which she could no where find. Sometimes, at the sight of Paul, she advanced sportively to meet him; but, when about to accost him, was overcome by a sudden confusion; her pale cheeks were covered with blushes, and her eyes no longer dared to meet those of her brother. Paul said to her,—"The rocks are covered with verdure, ...
— Paul and Virginia • Bernardin de Saint Pierre


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