LekhoriLekhoriTo come or go near, in place or time; to move toward; to advance nearer; to draw nigh.
She approached the door cautiously.
To play an approach shot.
Of an immovable object or a number of such objects: to be positioned as to (notionally) appear to be moving towards (a place).
As we drove along the driveway, the trees approaching the house seemed more eerie.
An act of drawing near in place or time; an advancing or coming near.
Ah, what a ſigne it is of euill life, Where death's approach is ſeene ſo terrible.
An act of coming near in character or value; an approximation.
The canine, judging from the figures published by M. [Édouard] Lartet, seems to be less developed than in the male chimpanzees, gorillas and orang. In which character the fossil, if it belonged to a male, makes a nearer approach to the human type; but it is one which many of the inferior monkeys also exhibit, and is by no means to be trusted as significant of true affinity, supposing even the sex of the fossil to be known as being male.
From Middle English aprochen, borrowed from Old French aprochier (modern French approcher), from Late Latin appropiāre, a verb based on Latin prope (“near”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pro- ...
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An avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached; an access.
Where are my lines then? my approaches? views? Where are my window-ſongs?