vbl. sb.; also 7 accoasting. [f. ACCOST v. + -ING1.] Now only gerundial.
† 1. A coming alongside. Obs.
1635. J. Hayward, Banish’d Virgin, 80. The accoasting of the six to one of the sides [of the ship] afforded our knights the commodity to tell our oaremen that the ship was by us taken.
2. Approach or advance (towards intercourse).
1603. Florio, Montaigne (1632), I. xiii. The … first accoastings of society and familiarity.
1736. Hervey, Mem., II. 114. This prostration was known to be so acceptable an accosting to his Majesty’s pride.
