accost

accost is a   Verb

Definition:

[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.

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