From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
accost
v 1: speak to someone [syn: address, come up to]
2: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited
by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in
the park" [syn: hook, solicit]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accost \Ac*cost"\, v. i.
To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the
sea accost." --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accost \Ac*cost"\, n.
Address; greeting. [R.] --J. Morley.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.] "So much [of Lapland] as accosts
the sea." --Fuller.
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2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] --Shak.
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3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus
accosts." --Milton.
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