greet

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To salute or welcome in a friendly and respectful way with speech or writing, as upon meeting or in opening a letter.
2. v. To receive with a specified reaction: greet a joke with laughter.
3. v. To be perceived by: A din greeted our ears.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To address formally, as on meeting or in writing or sending a letter or message; give or send salutations to; accost; salute; hail.
2. To congratulate.
3. To salute on meeting.
4. n. A greeting.
5. To weep; cry.
6. n. Weeping; crying; a cry; complaint.
7. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of grit.
8. n. An obsolete or dialectal form of grit.

Wiktionary

1. v. Scotland, Northern England To weep; to cry.
2. n. obsolete Mourning, weeping, lamentation.
3. v. 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.
4. v. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
5. v. To accost; to address.
6. v. intransitive To meet and give salutations.
7. adj. obsolete Great.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. obsolete Great.
2. v. Obs. or Scot. To weep; to cry; to lament.
3. n. obsolete Mourning.
4. v. 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.
5. v. To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad.
6. v. To accost; to address.
7. v. To meet and give salutations.
8. n. obsolete Greeting.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. be perceived by
2. v. express greetings upon meeting someone
3. v. send greetings to
4. v. react to in a certain way