Definition of couch

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Couch (v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.

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L :: L () L is the twelfth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. It is usually called a semivowel or liquid. Its form and value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus)..
Bed :: Bed (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs..
Couched :: Couched (imp. & p. p.) of Couc.
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract..
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.
Serve :: Serve (v. t.) To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch..
Recline :: Recline (v. i.) To assume, or to be in, a recumbent position; as, to recline on a couch..
Couch :: Couch (v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch..
Couchant :: Couchant (v. t.) Lying down with head erect; squatting.
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
Lectica :: Lectica (n.) A kind of litter or portable couch.
Couche :: Couche (v. t.) 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..
Couch :: Couch (v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying..
Counter-couchant :: Counter-couchant (a.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms..
Obstetrician :: Obstetrician (n.) One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.
Couching :: Couching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couc.
Couching :: Couching (n.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
Lodged :: Lodged (a.) Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey..
Couchancy :: Couchancy (n.) State of lying down for repose.
Coucher :: Coucher (n.) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts.
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