couching

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To lay upon a bed or other resting place. [1913 Webster]

Where unbruised youth, with unstuffed brain, Does couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To arrange or dispose as in a bed; -- sometimes followed by the reflexive pronoun. [1913 Webster]

The waters couch themselves as may be to the center of this globe, in a spherical convexity.— T. Burnet.[1913 Webster]

3.To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed. [1913 Webster]

It is at this day in use at Gaza, to couch potsherds, or vessels of earth, in their walls.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

4.(Paper Making) To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire cloth mold to a felt blanket, for further drying. [1913 Webster]

5.To conceal; to include or involve darkly. [1913 Webster]

There is all this, and more, that lies naturally couched under this allegory.— L'Estrange.[1913 Webster]

6.To arrange; to place; to inlay. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

7.To put into some form of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. [1913 Webster]

A well-couched invective.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms.— Blackw. Mag.[1913 Webster]

8.(Med.) To treat by pushing down or displacing the opaque lens with a needle; as, to couch a cataract. [1913 Webster]

To couch a spear or To couch a lance, to lower to the position of attack; to place in rest. [1913 Webster]

He stooped his head, and couched his spear, And spurred his steed to full career.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]

To couch malt, to spread malt on a floor. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]

1.(Med.) The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract. [1913 Webster]

2.Embroidering by laying the materials upon the surface of the foundation, instead of drawing them through. [1913 Webster]