Couch(v. i.) To lie down or recline, as on a bed or other place of rest; to repose; to lie.
Couch(v. i.) To lie down for concealment; to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly.
Couch(v. i.) To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
Couch(v. t.) A bed or place for repose or sleep; particularly, in the United States, a lounge.
Couch(v. t.) Any place for repose, as the lair of a beast, etc.
Couch(v. t.) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley; as, couch of malt.
Couch(v. t.) A preliminary layer, as of color, size, etc.
Couch(v. t.) To lay upon a bed or other resting place.
Couch(v. t.) To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun.
Couch(v. t.) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
Couch(v. t.) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.
Couch(v. t.) To conceal; to include or involve darkly.
Couch(v. t.) To arrange; to place; to inlay.
Couch(v. t.) To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under.
Couch(v. t.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract.
Couche(v. t.) Not erect; inclined; -- said of anything that is usually erect, as an escutcheon.
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.
Couched(a.) Same as Couch/.
Couched(imp. & p. p.) of Couch
Couching(n.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.
Couching(n.) Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through.
Couching(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Couch

Words within couchings