An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ACCOST
hook, solicit, accost
(verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors; “he was solicited by a prostitute”; “The young man was caught soliciting in the park”
address, accost, come up to
(verb) speak to someone
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
accost (third-person singular simple present accosts, present participle accosting, simple past and past participle accosted)
(transitive) To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
(transitive, obsolete) To join side to side; to border.
(by extension, transitive, obsolete) To sail along the coast or side of.
(transitive, obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
(transitive) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
(intransitive, obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
(transitive) To assault.
(transitive) To solicit sexually.
Noun
accost (plural accosts)
(rare) Address; greeting.
An attack.
Anagrams
• coacts
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cost" (#; 115), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accosted; p. pr. & vb. n. Accosting.] Etym: [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.
2. To approach; to make up to. [Archaic] Shak.
3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
Ac*cost", v. i.
Definition: To adjoin; to lie alongside. [Obs.] "The shores which to the sea accost." Spenser.
Ac*cost", n.
Definition: Address; greeting. [R.] J. Morley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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