Accost
Accost (#; 115) , transitive verb
[French accoster, Late Latin accostare to bring side by side; Latin ad + costa rib, side. See Coast, and compare Accoast.]
1.
To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. [Obsolete]
So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea.
2.
To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] — Shakespeare
3.
To speak to first; to address; to greet.
Him, Satan thus accosts.
Accost , intransitive verb
To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obsolete]
The shores which to the sea accost.
Accost , noun
Address; greeting. [Rare] — J. Morley