accost

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puhutella puhekieltä To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
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puhekieltä To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
So much of Lapland as accosts the sea. - Fuller
puhekieltä To approach; to come up to.

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Him, Satan thus accosts.

She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."

the shores which to the sea accost

so much of Lapland as accosts the sea