Accost

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Address; greeting.

II. Accost ·vt To Approach; to make up to.

III. Accost ·vi To Adjoin; to lie alongside.

IV. Accost ·vt To speak to first; to Address; to Greet.

V. Accost ·vt To join side to side; to Border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.