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.
ACCOST
Ac*cost", v. i.
Defn: To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
ACCOST
Ac*cost", n.
Defn: Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
ACCOSTABLE
Ac*cost"a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. F. accostable.]
Defn: Approachable; affable. [R.] Hawthorne.
ACCOSTED
Ac*cost"ed, a. (Her.)