accost : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: accost	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for accost
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
accost v speak to someone Synonym(s): address, accost, come up to approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" Synonym(s): hook, solicit, accost
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Accost \Ac*cost"\, v. i. To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] [bd]The shores which to the sea accost.[b8] --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.] [bd]So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.[b8] --Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. [bd]Him, Satan thus accosts.[b8] --Milton.