ACCOSTED

Adjective

accosted (not comparable)

(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side

Verb

accosted

simple past tense and past participle of accost

Anagrams

• stoccade

Source: Wiktionary


Ac*cost"ed, a. (Her.)

Definition: Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.

ACCOST

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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