What does "accost" mean?
Accost: To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
- 3.To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
- 4.Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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