Noah Webster
Greet
GREET, verb transitive [Latin rudo, to bray, to roar.]
1. To address with expressions of kind wishes; to salute in kindness and respect.
My lord, the Mayor if London comes to greet you.
2. To address at meeting; to address in any manner.
3. To congratulate.
4. To pay compliments at a distance; to send kind wishes to. Colossians 4:14. 2 Timothy 4:21.
5. To meet and address with kindness; or to express kind wishes accompanied with an embrace. 1 Thessalonians 5:26.
6. To meet.
GREET, verb intransitive To meet and salute.
There greet in silence, as the dead are wont,
And sleep in peace.
1. To weep; written by Spenser greit.