accostable

[Accost, v.] *1. Courteous, ready to accost ( N. E. D.). "The French are a free, debonaire, accostable people. Howell : Letters, i. 92. 2. That may be accosted or approached, acce ible. "Old soldiers seem to be more accostable than old sailors."-Hawthorne: Up the Thames, p. 255. ac-cost-ed, *ac-coast-ed, pa. par. [ACCOST.] 1. Ord. Lang. (See the verb). 2. Her.: A term applied (i.) to a charge supported on both sides by other charges, as a pale accosted by six mullets; (ii.) to two animals proceeding side by side. (Glo . of Heraldry.) [COTTISED.] IMG:content-0092.png:[blocks in formation] accouchement (pron. a-kûsh'-mãń or a-kuch-měnt), s. [Fr. from accoucher = to deliver, to bring forth.] Confinement, lying-in, delivery. "Her approaching accouchement."-Agnes Strick land: Queens of Eng. Henrietta Maria. accoucheur (pron. a-kûsh-ur), s. [Fr.] 1. A doctor who a ists women at childbirth. "Thus in England the medical profe ion is divided into physicians, surgeons, apothecaries, accoucheurs, oculists, aurists, dentists."-Sir G. C. Lewis: Influence of Authority in Matters of Opinion. 2. Fig . ( satirical ): One who a ists in bringing a friend's manuscript into the world of letters. "A kind of gratis accoucheur to those who wish to be delivered of rhyme, but do not know how to bring forth."- Byron English Bards & Scotch Reviewers. (Note.) accoucheuse (pron. a-kû-shoçe), s. [Fr.; the fem. form of ACCOUCHEUR.) A midwife.