CPage 665
- English Word Couch Definition To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
- English Word Couch Definition To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
- English Word Couch Definition To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
- English Word Couch Definition To arrange; to place; to inlay.
- English Word Couch Definition To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
- English Word Couch Definition To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
- English Word Couch Definition To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
- English Word Couch Definition To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
- English Word Couch Definition To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
- English Word Couch Definition A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
- English Word Couch Definition Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
- English Word Couch Definition A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
- English Word Couch Definition A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
- English Word Couch grass Definition See Quitch grass.
- English Word Couchancy Definition State of lying down for repose.
- English Word Couchant Definition Lying down with head erect; squatting.
- English Word Couchant Definition Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes the posture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of a lion or other beast.
- English Word Couche Definition Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
- English Word Couche Definition Lying on its side; thus, a chevron couche is one which emerges from one side of the escutcheon and has its apex on the opposite side, or at the fess point.
- English Word Couched Definition of Couch