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Webster 1913 Edition


Accoast

Ac-coast′

(ăk-kōst′)
,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[See
Accost
,
Coast
.]
To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost.
[Obs.]
Whether high towering or
accoasting
low.
Spenser.

Definition 2024


accoast

accoast

English

Verb

accoast (third-person singular simple present accoasts, present participle accoasting, simple past and past participle accoasted) (obsolete)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To lie or sail along the coast or side (of); to accost.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:
      [] whether high towering or accoasting low []