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4 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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