You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
accosted (not comparable)
(heraldry) Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side
accosted
simple past tense and past participle of accost
• stoccade
Source: Wiktionary
Ac*cost"ed, a. (Her.)
Definition: Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
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
17 March 2025
(noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.