ACCOSTING
Verb
accosting
present participle of accost
Noun
accosting (plural accostings)
The act of physically confronting a person.
Source: Wiktionary
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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