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Couch   /kaʊtʃ/   Listen
noun
Couch  n.  
1.
A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge. "Gentle sleep... why liest thou with the vile In loathsome beds, and leavest the kingly couch?" "Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
2.
Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
3.
A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
4.
(Painting & Gilding) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.


verb
Couch  v. t.  (past & past part. couched; pres. part. couching)  
1.
To lay upon a bed or other resting place. "Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign."
2.
To arrange or dispose as in a bed; sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. "The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity."
3.
To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. "It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls."
4.
(Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
5.
To conceal; to include or involve darkly. "There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory."
6.
To arrange; to place; to inlay. (Obs.)
7.
To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; used with in and under. "A well-couched invective." "I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms."
8.
(Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
To couch a spear or To couch a lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. "He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career."
To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor.


Couch  v. i.  
1.
To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie. "Where souls do couch on flowers, we 'll hand in hand." "If I court moe women, you 'll couch with moe men."
2.
To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly. "We 'll couch in the castle ditch, till we see the light of our fairies." "The half-hidden, hallf-revealed wonders, that yet couch beneath the words of the Scripture."
3.
To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch. (Obs.) "An aged squire That seemed to couch under his shield three-square."





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"Couch" Quotes from Famous Books



... sit down?" Toni drew a low chair forward for Mrs. Anstey, who accepted it with a smile, while Olive Lynn sank down on the couch, where, after a second's pause, Toni also ...
— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes
... up-stairs, and so had not heard the voices, nor even knew that her father had a visitor. She came down soon after his departure to prepare the tea. The lamp was lit, the little fire kindled for the kettle, the table brought up to the colonel's couch, which, as in old time, he liked to have so; and Esther made his toast and served him with his cups of tea, in just the old fashion. But the way her father looked at her was not just in the old fashion. He noticed ...
— A Red Wallflower • Susan Warner
... it appeared, had fallen asleep after her meal, no doubt tired with the expedition of the morning, and her chief attendant, D'Aulon, who had accompanied Dunois to fetch the troops from Blois, being weary after his journey, had also stretched himself on a couch to rest. They were all tired, the entry of the troops having been early in the morning, a fact of which the angry captains of Orleans, who had not shared in that expedition, took advantage to make a secret sortie unknown to the new chiefs. ...
— Jeanne d'Arc - Her Life And Death • Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant
... her life she had spent on a couch, a confirmed invalid, and oppressed by a foreboding as to Tony's ultimate future. And then, one day, shortly before the weak flame of her life flickered out into the darkness, she had sent for Ann, and solemnly, appealingly, confided the boy ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... the boy that was scaret o' dyin' was the last story that little Lib ever told us. We saw her sometimes after that, but she was not strong enough to talk much. She sat no longer now in the low chair under the maples, but lay on a chintz-covered couch in the sitting-room, by the west windows. The once shrilly-sweet voice with its clear bird tones was but a whisper now, as she told us over and again, while she lay there, that she would tell us a new story "to-morrow." It was always "to-morrow" till the end came. And the story ...
— Story-Tell Lib • Annie Trumbull Slosson


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