accost

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. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser. Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.

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