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   Accost , 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.]
   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.
   
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   To approach; to make up to. [Archaic]
   Shak.
   
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   To speak to first; to address; to greet. “Him, Satan thus accosts.”
   Milton.
   
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   Accost, v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] “The shores which to the sea accost.” 
   Spenser.
   
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   Accost, n. Address; greeting. [R.]
   J. Morley.
   
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