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Coast   /koʊst/   Listen
noun
Coast  n.  
1.
The side of a thing. (Obs.)
2.
The exterior line, limit, or border of a country; frontier border. (Obs.) "From the river, the river Euphrates, even to the uttermost sea, shall your coast be."
3.
The seashore, or land near it. "He sees in English ships the Holland coast." "We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow."
The coast is clear, the danger is over; no enemy in sight. Fig.: There are no obstacles. "Seeing that the coast was clear, Zelmane dismissed Musidorus."
Coast guard.
(a)
A body of men originally employed along the coast to prevent smuggling; now, under the control of the admiralty, drilled as a naval reserve. (Eng.)
(b)
The force employed in life-saving stations along the seacoast. (U. S.)
Coast rat (Zool.), a South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; called also sand mole.
Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. (Eng.)


verb
Coast  v. t.  
1.
To draw near to; to approach; to keep near, or by the side of. (Obs.)
2.
To sail by or near; to follow the coast line of. "Nearchus,... not knowing the compass, was fain to coast that shore."
3.
To conduct along a coast or river bank. (Obs.) "The Indians... coasted me along the river."


Coast  v. i.  (past & past part. coasted; pres. part. coasting)  
1.
To draw or keep near; to approach. (Obs.) "Anon she hears them chant it lustily, And all in haste she coasteth to the cry."
2.
To sail by or near the shore. "The ancients coasted only in their navigation."
3.
To sail from port to port in the same country.
4.
To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice. (Local, U. S.)





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... joined in this work by her sister; and the enthusiasm and good judgment shown by the two inspired others, and made the famous "Silver Street Kindergarten" not only a great object lesson on the Pacific Coast, but an inspiration to similar efforts in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, British ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... it from a photograph. The last time it was used was in 1813, when a publican was put in it for aiding the escape of General Phillippon, a French prisoner of war, who had been brought to this old Sussex town. The pillory was erected on the beach, and the face of the culprit turned to the coast of France. Mr. Holloway, the local historian, supplied the late Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt with some particulars respecting this example. "It measures," says Mr. Holloway, "about six feet in height, by four in width. ...
— Bygone Punishments • William Andrews
... schooner with Mr. Thurston on board, and fifty- five natives for Fiji. On the north coast was the 'Isabella,' with twenty-five for Queensland. The master gave Captain Jacob his credentials to show to the Bishop, and said the Bishop might come on board and talk to the people, so as to be convinced they came willingly, ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... and northwest coast of Ireland shows many remarkable geological formations, but, excepting the Giant's Causeway, no more striking spectacle is presented than that to the south of Galway Bay. From the sea, the mountains rise in terraces ...
— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.
... health and did not stand the Northern winters well, the whole family left for a few months' stay at their bungalow home in Florida. They were quite close to the little village of Bay Head, on the Gulf coast. I kept in ...
— The Fire People • Ray Cummings


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