Word Meanings - ACCOAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

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• ALONGSIDE
  Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.
• TOWER
  To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. On the other side an high rock towered still. Spenser. My lord protector's hawks do tower so well. Shak.
• ACCOST
  1. To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of. "So much as accosts the sea." Fuller. 2. To approach; to make up to. Shak. 3. To speak to first; to address; to greet. "Him, Satan thus accosts." Milton.
• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• TOWERING
  1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope. 2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. A man agitated by a towering passion. Sir W. Scott.
• ACCOSTABLE
  Approachable; affable. Hawthorne.
• COAST
  1. The side of a thing. Sir I. Newton. 2. The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be. Deut. xi. 24. 3. The seashore, or land near it.
• COASTING
  Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast. Coasting trade, trade carried on by water between neighboring ports of the same country, as distinguished fron foreign trade or trade involving long voyages. -- Coasting vessel,
• WHETHERING
  The retention of the afterbirth in cows. Gardner.
• COASTWISE; COASTWAYS
  By way of, or along, the coast.
• COASTER
  1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore.
• COASTAL
  Of or pertaining to a cast.
• ALONGSHORE
  Along the shore or coast.
• WHETHER
  In case; if; -- used to introduce the first or two or more alternative clauses, the other or others being connected by or, or by or whether. When the second of two alternatives is the simple negative of the first it is sometimes only indicated by
• ALONG
  Along of, Along on, often shortened to Long of, prep. phr., owing to; on account of. "On me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.
• ALONGST
  Along.
• COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY
  A bureau of the United States government charged with the topographic and hydrographic survey of the coast and the execution of belts of primary triangulation and lines of precise leveling in the interior. It now belongs to the Department
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• ALONGSHOREMAN
  See LONGSHOREMAN
• ACCOSTED
  Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.
• KALONG
  A fruit bat, esp. the Indian edible fruit bat (Pteropus edulis).
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• DISCOAST
  To depart; to quit the coast of anything; to be separated. As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie. G. Fletcher. To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech. Barrow.
• WATCHTOWER
  A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
• ACCOAST
  To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.
• WATER TOWER
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• ROLLER COASTER
  An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over a long winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.
• MARTELLO TOWER
  A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. Note: The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in (more info)
• ALALONGA; ALILONGHI
  The tunny. See Albicore.
• SEACOAST
  The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.