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   Accost
   Ac·cost' (#; 115) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Accosted ; present participle & verbal noun Accosting .] [ French accoster , Late Latin accostare to bring side by side; Latin ad + costa rib, side. See Coast , and confer Accoast .] 1. To join side to side; to border; ...
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   Accost
   Ac·cost' intransitive verb To adjoin; to lie alongside. [ Obsolete] 'The shores which to the sea accost .' Spenser.
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   Accost
   Ac·cost' noun Address; greeting. [ R.] J. Morley.
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   accost
   1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. 'So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.' ... 2. To approach; to make up to. ... 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. 'Him, Satan thus accosts.' ... Origin: F. Accoster, LL. Accostare to bring side by side; L. Ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and cf. Accoast. ... Sou ...
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   accost
   verb speak to someone
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   Accost
   • (v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. • (v. t.) To approach; to make up to. • (v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet. • (v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside. • (n.) Address; greeting.
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   accost
   accost 1. To approach and stop someone in order to speak; especially, in an aggressive, insistent, or suggestive way. 2. Etymology: via French and ultimately from Latin accostare, 'to adjoin'; from costa, 'rib, side' (source of English coast). The essential sense is 'to be alongside'. From this, or from the French derivative accoster, we have made Engli...
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