s’accoster de, v.r., to keep company with, to make acquaintance with, to frequent.

accotar, n.m. V. accotoir.

accotement, n.m., (engineering) driftway; (rail.) bank, outer way.

accoter, v.a., to prop up, to support, to bear up, to lean; (hort.) to dung, to match, to screen.

s’accoter, v.r., to lean on anything, to support one’s self.

accotoir, n.m., prop, leaning-stock, stanchion; (nav.) stay, shore.

accouchée, n.f., a woman in child-bed, lying-in woman.

accouchement (-koosh-mān), n.m., child-bed; delivery, confinement, accouchement; obstetrics; midwifery. Hôpital des —s; lying-in hospital. Faire un —; to deliver a woman.

accoucher, v.n., to lie in, to be brought to bed, to be delivered. — avant terme; to miscarry. Accouchez donc! (fam.) come, out with it!

accoucher, v.a., to deliver a woman.