Verb

(en verb)

To address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes; to salute; to hail; to welcome; to accost with friendship; to pay respects or compliments to, either personally or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , Act III, scene 1

My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you.

* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,

Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.

* '1707, (Joseph Addison), ''Rosamond , Act I, scene 4

In vain the spring my senses greets .

To accost; to address.

(Alexander Pope)

To meet and give salutations.

* circa 1590 , (William Shakespeare), (Titus Adronicus), Act I, scene 2, line 90

There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace.

To be perceived by (somebody).

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Verb

(Scotland, Northern England) To weep; to cry.

*1933 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Cloud Howe'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), page 312:

*:And damn't! if he didn't take down her bit things and scone her so sore she grat like a bairn [...].

* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, page 2:

My maw went potty and started greeting .

Verb

(lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.

#(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

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, passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away

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#To be introduced to someone.

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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

#(lb) To French kiss someone.

(lb) Of groups: to gather or oppose.

#To gather for a formal or social discussion.

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#*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

#To come together in conflict.

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#*:Sir said Epynegrys is þ^t the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll / As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy / for here is for me / And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan

#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:Weapons more violent, when next we meet , / May serve to better us and worse our foes.

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#(lb) To play a match.

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(lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.

#To converge and finally touch or intersect.

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#*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner (might do).

#To touch or hit something while moving.

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#To adjoin, be physically touching.

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To satisfy; to comply with.

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*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)

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To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.

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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.