Bible Dictionaries
Accost

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Address; greeting.

(2):

(v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.

(3):

(v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.

(4):

(v. t.) To approach; to make up to.

(5):

(v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Accost'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/accost.html. 1828.